News Roundup

  • The body of Ashton Glover, a 16-year-old Sugar Land girl missing since Friday, was found today in a Fort Bend County field
  • Texas inmates working in prisons aren't entitled to receive the federal minimum wage, a federal appeals court ruled today
  • Oil fell 84 cents today, to $73.25 a barrel, on a sell-off in gasoline futures
  • Police found a man shot to death in the trunk a burning car near downtown early this morning; they say the car might have been set afire to cover up the crime
  • Surgeons who reattached 12-year-old Giovanni Ramirez's arm last week after he lost it playing near train tracks said today that Ramirez is recovering well and already moving his arm
  • A southeast Houston woman found an unknown dead man in her apartment's bathtub Sunday; she didn't know how he got in and police aren't sure how he died
  • Milan B. Williams, one of the founding members of the Commodores, died in Houston on Sunday after a long battle with cancer

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