- After a jury deadlock, plastic surgeon Mark Gilliland agreed to serve two years in jail for a hit-and-run last year that severely injured two women; Rusty Hardin will represent the victims in a civil suit
- The city may sue Valero because its Houston refinery has been responsible for air-quality violations
- Former Gov. Ann Richards, speaking at the announcement that an Austin school will be named for her, said she plans to beat cancer of the esophagus
- The new Port Strategic Security Council met to discuss plans for new security measures in and around the Port of Houston
- Four employees at the county's Baker Street jail have been temporarily reassigned after two inmates were injured by "use of force"
- A Fort Bend County fifth grader says two men tried to kidnap him as he walked home from school Tuesday; it's one of more than a dozen attempted child kidnappings in the area in the last month
- Derrick White, a "person of interest" in the case of two roommates found dead in southwest Houston, turned himself in to police this morning



What, no mention of Yao Ming's broken foot?