News Roundup

  • Matthew McCombs reportedly told police he shot 16-year-old Ashton Glover in the head out of "morbid curiosity"
  • Two men and a woman were killed early Sunday morning when a driver lost control of his car outside an Almeda Road nightclub
  • Hey, it's been hot around here lately, huh?
  • Forensic psychiatrist Park Dietz testified today that mental illness led Andrea Yates to drown her children, though she knew it was wrong to do so
  • At the Port of Houston, there's a building boom in anticipation of the opening of the Bayport terminal later this year
  • Good news: There's only one escaped Texas prison inmate still on the loose
  • Bad news: Franklin Duane Walston, a registered sex offender, has escaped from an east Houston halfway house, officials say

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