Morning Roundup: All the cops in the doughnut shops edition

Good morning, Houston. We're sure thieves will think twice before trying to rob 85-year-old Lena Williamson: On Tuesday Williamson's crime-fighting friends had a man arrested after he stole her wallet. It happened after Williamson's car broke down as she was leaving a Woodforest Bank branch at Woodforest and Uvalde; she asked a man for help in fixing the car, but instead of giving her help, he took her wallet and ran off. Fortunately, Williamson had some quick-thinking friends around, including Curtis Morton, who ran to a nearby Shipley's doughnut shop and grabbed a cop (yeah, go ahead, make a joke). The officer, in turn, arrested the thief, and now everything's OK. The moral of this story? If you're in trouble, make sure you're around helpful people — and near a doughnut shop.

>> Finding trends in bank robberies: KHOU reports on how to tell if a bank is likely to be robbed: Check to see whether it's been robbed before. Sixty banks have been robbed in Houston in the last four years, 20 of them twice, 11 of them three times, seven of them four times, one five times and one a whopping six times (thanks, apparently, to easy freeway access for the getaway). These days, 92 percent of bank robberies are done with notes, not guns and ski masks — and here's the thing: Banks don't really see a way to stop the robberies. "As long as no one got hurt and the amount of the loss wasn't tremendous, I looked at it as a small victory," Tom Messer, a former director of security at Wells Fargo, told Channel 11.

>> Perry didn't veto HPV bill: Gov. Rick Perry decided not to sign or veto a bill temporarily barring the state from requiring the HPV vaccine for teenage Texan girls, meaning the bill will become law without his signature. A veto likely wouldn't have stood up to a legislative vote, and signing the bill would have meant a political about-face for Perry, who has maintained that requiring the vaccine is the right thing for Texas schoolgirls because HPV is linked to cervical cancer. The requirement caused a backlash in the Legislature, however, where some members said Perry was overstepping his authority and was mandating something they said should be parents' decision. "I've never seen so much misinformation spread about a vital public health issue," Perry said. Under the bill, the state won't be able to require the vaccine until at least 2011.

>> Today's weather: Call it the calm before the storm(s): Expect a partly cloudy afternoon today with a high around 83, followed by a chance of rain beginning tonight and continuing through the weekend. On the plus side, highs should be in the low 80s the rest of the week, with overnight lows in the lower 60s. Just don't forget your umbrella.

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