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  • Police say a grenade was found in HPD's accident division at 61 Reisner this afernoon; an investigation is under way (KPRC says the grenade was live, but KTRK is reporting it wasn't)
  • A shipping truck wrecked and caught fire early this afternoon in the Katy Freeway HOV lane near Gessner, closing all outbound lanes; the freeway is not expected to fully reopen until 9 p.m.
  • Dexter Johnson, accused of being the ringleader of the group of teens involved in a robbery and murder spree, says he didn't kill anyone; "I'm leaving things in God's hands," he told KTRH
  • The family of a Beaumont teen killed in a charter bus accident in March is suing the bus company and the bus driver, citing negligence and recklessness
  • After a police chase on the East Freeway this morning, the suspect jumped into Greens Bayou to try to avoid capture, but he gave himself up later after cops spotted him hiding in some bushes
  • Andrea Yates thought she would desroy herself and Satan by drowning her five children, a former Harris County Jail psychiatrist testified today
  • "Martha Homes," custom homes designed by uber-homemaker Martha Stewart, will begin being built in Katy this fall
  • Former state legislator and city councilman Ben Reyes, who's been in jail since 1999, will be released Dec. 26 — and he plans to stay in Houston, where he said he wants to be a family man

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