News Roundup

  • Timothy Randle, one of five people charged in connection with a crime spree that left four people dead, said he is innocent today in an interview with KPRC from his jail cell
  • During the second day of her retrial for drowning her five children, Andrea Yates sobbed this morning as she watched a police video showing her kids' bodies
  • Harris County Republicans nominated Orlando Sanchez, a former city councilman and mayoral candidate, as their candidate for county treasurer on the November ballot
  • The price of oil rose slightly today, closing at $71.92 a barrel on news of Gulf Coast shipping delays and Iran's refusal to hold nuclear talks with the U.S.
  • Someone broke into the Fort Bend County Courthouse yesterday, officials said; all that was found to be missing was a cash register from the courthouse's deli
  • Henry Davis, an off-duty HPD officer, has been accused of pointing a gun at a driver in Round Rock during a road-rage incident
  • Three kids — 3-year-old twins and a 4-year-old — were injured in an apartment fire on Park Place today; the kids were unconscious when firefighters pulled them out of the burning unit

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