- The defense in the Andrea Yates trial rested this afternoon; the state will now begin rebuttal and the case could go to the jury sometime next week
- Fort Bend detectives say they've made progress in their investigation of the death of Ashton Glover, the 16-year-old Sugar Land girl whose body was found in a field yesterday
- In Houston, the police officers' union is gathering the last responses to a survey it issued about HPD Chief Harold Hurtt's performance
- Fraternity members at UT could face a variety of charges in connection with the December death of a pledge from Houston, prosecutors say
- Houston police are trying to figure out who leaked a story about an officer undergoing a sex change to KPRC
- Along the Gulf Coast, environmentalists and the government are at odds over the problem of overfishing; there are plans to rebuild fish populations, but some say the government isn't doing enough to regulate fishing
- A tractor unexpectedly went into gear at a Jersey Village construction site today, killing a man; police investigatd and said the death was an accident
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