Morning Roundup: Cultural outpost edition

Good morning, Houston. Score one for Sugar Land's fake downtown: This summer, it will become the location of the Children's Museum of Houston's first satellite location. The Children's Museum of Houston Discovery Center at Sugar Land Town Square — that's CMHDCSLTS for short — will occupy 9,000 square feet of space in the Town Square development for six weeks beginning June 1. Though it's just a temporary deal, museum brass say the Discovery Center could open the door to a permanent Children's Museum branch in Fort Bend County.

>> Now, the punch line: William Ray Tyson Jr., an 18-year-old Tomball High School student, has been charged with making a terroristic threat after he made a joke about bringing a weapon to school and shooting up the cafeteria. Tyson was overheard telling friends April 27 that he planned to bring a rifle to campus, but his lawyer said he wasn't serious: "He told the police it was a joke. He has no AK-47, and he has no weapons whatsoever to do anything with. But, he made a joke, and now he gets to be incarcerated for it," attorney Ted Doebbler said. Gets to be incarcerated? Wow, how fun! The Harris County DA's office said it has a zero tolerance policy when it comes to violent jokes, but Tyson's mother called the whole thing "a big overreaction" on officials' part. "He's a good kid. He's never been in trouble," Lesa Tyson said. "I just think this was a huge mistake."

>> Wanted: tornado beaters: Galveston school district police are trying to figure out who kidnapped and beat up Tuffy the Tor, Ball High School's 8-foot-tall fiberglass mascot. No one's sure why Tuffy — who has been a fixture at the school for 22 years — was stolen and damaged, but the incident shocked Galvestonians: "Tuffy is the spirit of our school, the life of our school," student Lisa Schweitzer said. "It holds all of our dreams." (For the record, Tuffy is a golden tornado.) The good news, KTRK reports, is that Tuffy can and will be repaired, but the bad news is that the perps are still at large. On the off chance that you know anything about the Tuffy bashers, call Galveston ISD police at 409.766.5811.

>> No sale for JFK hearse: The hearse that carried President John F. Kennedy's body from Parkland Hospital to Air Force One after he was shot in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, failed to sell at an auction in Kemah this weekend. The hearse — purportedly the only vehicle involved in the assassination that's still in its original condition — drew an opening bid of $500,000, but the high bid of $900,000 wasn't enough to make owner Arrdeen Vaughan sell. "I was hoping that someone would buy it and put it into a museum. That's what I would like to see happen to it," Vaughan told the Chronicle. "I'll hold on to it, until we find someone who wants to do that." Other classic cars in the auction did go for big bucks, though, including a 1968 Shelby Cobra Mustang ($517,000) and a 1953 Jaguar ($370,000).

>> This week's weather: The good news is that the afternoons should get slightly cooler as the week goes on — but you won't need to break out the parkas, trust us. Look for clouds this morning giving way to sun this afternoon, with a high around 87; there'll be a slight chance of rain tomorrow and Friday, but the middle of the week looks decent, with highs dropping into the lower 80s. We'll begin the week with overnight lows around 70, but those will fall to near 60 by the weekend.

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