Morning Roundup: Why you gotta front? edition

Good morning, Houston. Yeah, we remember how (relatively) mild the first part of the summer was, and we're grateful for that. But now, after weeks of oppressive heat, we're sick of the weather — so you can imagine how excited we were when we checked out the long-range forecast and saw highs in the low 80s and lows in the low 60s coming in early September. But it might not come as early as we'd like: The first cool front of the season, which is scheduled to push into southeast Texas next weekend, looks like it might stall out north of Houston — meaning it could be hotter here, not cooler. Ah well.

>> High school football star shot to death: Herman Mitchell, a 17-year-old senior linebacker at Westfield High, died Friday of multiple gunshot wounds after reportedly being involved in an altercation at a Houston-area apartment complex. Mitchell, who had accepted a scholarship to play at the University of Oklahoma, called his mother moments after he was shot: "He said, 'Momma, they shot me. They shot me.' I was stuck in traffic on 1960. And I said, 'I'm trying to get there.' And those were his last words to me," Toni Wiggins told KPRC. Police arrested Emile "Rusty" Lewis, a 19-year-old Louisiana man who Wiggins said had been friends with Mitchell, and charged him with murder. According to the Chronicle, the two had been having a dispute over the ownership of a pit bull.

>> Amputees overboard!: Meet 89-year-old Fred Winter, an amputee who completed his first skydive Saturday. Winter served as an Air Force sergeant during World War II and came out of the war safe and sound — but 40 years later, he lost his leg in a quail hunting accident on his own property. He said the dive this weekend meant a lot: "I didn't do this for the thrill of it," he told the Chronicle. "I did it to inspire other people who have lost limbs." And speaking of lost limbs, Winter had a little problem in that regard during his dive: As he was getting into the airplane, his fake leg came off, and he had to make the dive without it. "I never left anybody's leg behind in the plane before," dive instructor Robert "Hoop" WIlliams told the Chron.

>> This week's weather: Looks like we'll have a few days of highs in the low 90s with a lot of humidity and a persistent chance of rain — sound familiar? We'll begin the week today with an afternoon high of 92 and a heat index around 101; overnight, temperatures will hover around 76.

Now, how about you read some headlines and pretend it's cool outside?