- Derrick Sean O'Brien, sentenced to death for the 1993 murders of two teenage girls, won a stay of execution today while an appeals court considers whether death by lethal injection is cruel and unusual punishment
- The price of oil dropped 3 percent today, closing at less than $70 a barrel
- Near Clear Lake this morning, a car crashed through the wall of an apartmentwhile the driver was fleeing a hit-and-run accident he'd just been involved in
- Between 300 and 400 people fled Sunday afternoon when police broke up a cockfighting ring in southeast Houston; the SPCA took custody of more than 100 animals from the scene
- Darrick Moore, the man accused of defrauding a Texans player out of more than $400,000, appeared in court today; he's being held on a $1 million bond in Harris County and a $5 million bond in Fort Bend County
- Three people, including an undercover cop, were injured over the weekend when the policeman pulled his SUV in front of a MetroRail train near Main and Alabama
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