- Thousands of people gathered in Memorial Park today to rally in support of increased rights for illegal immigrants
- Independent gubernatorial hopeful Carole Keeton Strayhorn's lawsuit to speed the review of petition signatures to get her on the ballot went to federal court in Austin today; a judge said he'd rule within a few days
- A jury convicted a Cypress man of attemped capital murder today in connection with his shooting an HPD officer last year; Robert Porteous could face life in prison
- The price of oil rose nearly $2 a barrel today, to $73.70, on concerns about Iran, refinery outages in California and Italy and reports of violence in Nigeria
- One of the teenage boys accused of attacking and sodomizing a Hispanic teen April 22 had Nazi sympathies, neighbors and schoolmates say
- Have you been running into gas stations with no gas? Don't worry — it's not a shortage, just problems with switching to an ethanol additive
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