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  • Eighteen HISD high schools didn't meet federal standards set under the No Child Left Behind law, meaning the district must offer students at those schools the chance to transfer to better-performing campuses
  • Police in Baytown and west Houston are on the lookout for three men who have stolen thousands of dollars' worth of cell phones and equipment from local stores
  • Matthew Knowles, the father of singer Beyoncé, will help the city try to land the Essence Music Festival again next year
  • H-E-B will begin offering pet health plans later this year
  • Turns out Houstonist isn't the only one who enjoys a good car chase — noted thespian Bill Murray does, too, according to the AP
  • In northwest Harris County early this morning, robbers went a little overboard, crashing an old utility truck through the front of a Walgreens in order to steal the ATM inside
  • And unrelated to that, a driver crashed into a Houston Shoe Hospital on Westheimer today in what was apparently an accident
  • A Harris County jury has sentenced a pimp to life plus 99 years in prison
  • Police are looking for 14-year-old Marlena Carmen Esquivel, who has been missing since early this morning; she was last seen in the company of a 42-year-old man

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