News Roundup

  • Hundreds of people gathered today at a memorial service for rapper Big Hawk, who was gunned down last week
  • A Houston man faces 10 years in prison for cheating Medicare out of $3.3 million by getting reimbursements for power wheelchairs for people who didn't need them
  • A ship that sank off the coast near Freeport in 1976 may be leaking oil; officials are planning to use divers to find the source of the leak
  • A woman at home with her 3-year-old child shot and killed a robber who forced his way into her house overnight
  • Three pit bulls that had gotten loose from a neighborhood home attacked a mail carrier this afternoon; she had to be rushed to the hospital with injuries to the face, neck and body
  • Gubernatorial hopeful Carole Keeton Strayhorn will turn her petition signatures in early to try to get on the ballot; the deadline is Thursday

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