- The U.S. Supreme Court overturned part of Texas' redistricting map today, saying some of the new divisions didn't protect minority voting rights
- Sheriff's officers are searching for Hector Caranza, a 5-year-old boy discovered to be missing from his northeast Harris County home this morning
- Orlando Sanchez, the newly named Republican candidate for Harris County treasurer, is suggesting that talk about eliminating the office of county treasurer is discriminatory against him
- Webster Smith, a Coast Guard cadet from Houston, was acquitted of rape charges in his court-martial, but was found guilty of a variety of other charges
- A bat found in the back yard of a Crosby-area home tested positive for rabies, but officials say there was no known human exposure to the animal
- Andrea Yates' oldest son, Noah, put up a fierce struggle while his mother was drowning him in 2001, a medical examiner testified today in Yates' retrial
- The deaths of three kids in a southeast Houston apartment fire yesterday has put the spotlight on burglar bars, which firefighters had a hard time getting through in their efforts to save the children
- An undercover police officer witnessed a shooting at a bus stop in east Houston last night; the suspects were caught after a brief chase
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