- Thousands of Katrina evacuees have had their power cut off — and the reason, they claim, is that no one ever told them they have to pay electric bills
- A 21-year-old Pennsylvania college student was taken into custody today after part of a stick of dynamite was found in his luggage aboard a Continental flight at Bush Intercontinental
- Three cops and two suspected drug dealers were injured Thursday afternoon when gunfire broke out during a drug bust on Crosby's main drag
- A group of criminals really has it out for a girls' softball team in Missouri City, it seems
- 11 girls from a Baytown high school volleyball team suffered minor injuries late yesterday when a speeding car hit their van in Irving, causing the van to flip
- The state has turned management of Lake Houston Park over to the city of Houston
- Are you drunk right now? Ah, we thought so — seems Houston is the 18th-drunkest city in the U.S., according to Forbes magazine
- A woman driving the wrong way on the Westpark Tollway died early this morning when her car crashed into a retaining wall and caught fire
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