- Michael Scott McCasland, a Willowridge High School counselor, was acquitted today of a charge of having sex with a female student
- A woman was killed in a fire at a Galleria-area apartment complex this morning
- Derrick Sean O'Brien, convicted of the 1993 murder of two teenage girls, is set to be executed July 11; his execution was delayed after a state appeals court issued a stay
- A Cy-Springs student accused of writing on a bleacher at school has been charged with a felony, and his mom says the punishment doesn't fit the crime
- Will Rogers Elementary on Richmond Avenue closed today; the school and the adjacent ex-HISD headquarters will be demolished soon to make way for a residential and retail complex
- A 10-foot, 350- or 400-pound alligator was captured Tuesday off Saums Road in Katy
- Masked robbers stole money and prescription drugs from a west Houston CVS store overnight
- Firefighters remained on the scene of a four-alarm apartment fire on San Felipe Road today; the abandoned complex burned for much of the afternoon Wednesday and continued smoldering today
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