News Roundup

  • An Amtrak train bound for Houston and a truck loaded with gravel crashed near Columbus this morning, injuring the truck driver, a train engineer and several passengers
  • The price of crude oil closed the week at $70.19 after $2 decreases Wednesday and Thursday; the final number reflected a 25 cent increase over Thursday's price
  • A pedestrian was injured this morning in Midtown when he got off a MetroRail train and jaywalked in front of a car on Main Street; Houstonist expects critics to blame the train for this accident, too
  • Looking back on Ken Lay's testimony in the Enron trial, observing lawyers say his ornery disposition might not have been such a good thing after all
  • A section of Memorial Drive on the west side of Memorial Park was closed for several hours today after a train leaked diesel fuel from an overhead track
  • A substitute teacher described as a "pervert" has been accused of sexually assaulting a student three times at Milby High School
  • One Houston bottled water company is helping find missing people by putting their pictures on water bottles
  • A Clear Lake family showed their quadruplets off to the media today; the three boys and girl, which doctors say is a one-in-a-million combination, were born on Good Friday

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