Morning Roundup: Run into your dream car edition

Good morning, Houston. We thought that ding someone put in the door of our 1983 Diatribe in the Starbucks parking lot the other day was bad, but then we heard about the $150,000 Aston Martin damaged last week when a car went out of control and slammed into a southwest Houston car dealership. It happened when a pickup truck hit Leonard Ross' car while he was on the Southwest Freeway feeder road near Fountain View; the impact sent Ross' car off the road and through the front of Expo Motors, causing about $300,000 worth of damage. "I always dreamed of owning one of these," Ross told KPRC. "I never expected to get close to them this quick."

>> Woman rescued from silo: A woman working at a Mrs. Baird's bakery in northeast Houston had to be rescued from the top of a grain silo Monday after she reportedly was overcome by heat. The woman was apparently cleaning the inside of the silo when the heat got to her; emergency crews went to the top of the silo and lowered a ladder hooked to a safety rope to hoist the woman to safety. There's no word on the woman's condition.

>> Ex-Enron Internet chief sentenced to 27 months: Kenneth Rice, 48, the former head of Enron's high-speed Internet unit, got a 27-month jail sentence yesterday for securities fraud — a sentence reduced by Rice's cooperation with federal prosecutors. Among the charges against Rice were that he participated in a scheme to advertise the broadband unit as having capabilities it didn't, which would inflate the value of its stock; prosecutors say Rice sold 1.2 million shares of Enron stock worth $76 million though he knew Enron Broadband Services was failing. Before his sentencing Monday, Rice apologized for his part in Enron's downfall: "I'm sorry. I wasn't raised that way, and I'm ashamed of that," he said. "I'm committed to turning my life around."

>>Body of one missing boater found: Searchers found the body of Martha Harris, who vanished while boating with her husband this weekend, in Galveston Bay on Sunday night. Harris and her husband, Bill, had put their boat in Sunday morning near the Kemah bridge; around 1 p.m., people picnicking at Red Bluff Beach reported seeing the boat drifting in circles with no one aboard. Texas EquuSearch staff said the Harrises normally carried five life jackets with them when they went out on the boat, and two jackets were gone when the boat was found, but it's not clear whether Martha Harris was wearing a life jacket when her body was found. Searchers are still looking for Bill Harris.

>> Today's weather: There's a fair chance of rain this afternoon, with potentially heavy scattered showers across the Houston area. Apart from that, look for a partly cloudy day with a high around 90 and an overnight low in the mid-70s.

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