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  • The two men involved in a Texas City apartment explosion yesterday may have been involved in an anarchist group, sources tell KHOU
  • Michael Shelby, a former U.S. attorney who was found dead at his Houston home Tuesday, shot himself, his autopsy report said
  • State Attorney General Greg Abbott will ask the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn a ruling that Tom DeLay must remain on the November ballot
  • Two 12-year-old boys were killed overnight when one of them took his dad's pickup truck out for a joyride and crashed into a tree; three other kids were injured
  • Fort Bend County police arrested a man who may be responsible for 50 apartment burglaries in FBC, Sugar Land and Stafford
  • A 78-year-old ice cream vendor was killed yesterday when his delivery tricycle was hit by an 18-wheeler
  • A hearing on whether to turn Ashley Paige Benton, the girl accused of stabbing a teen to death in a Montrose gang fight last month, over to her grandmother's custody was rescheduled for Monday morning

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