Weekend News Bits

From local Houston headlines, we bring you these weekend news bits...

• Two men were rescued from the Gulf of Mexico 130 miles southeast of Galveston when their helicopter crashed.

• Deer Park resident and former Astros pitcher, Andy Pettitte, admitted to using a human growth hormone during his recovery from an elbow injury in 2002.

• During future evacuations and before boarding public transportation criminal background checks will be standard operating procedure to separate sex offenders and dangerous individuals from children and the elderly.

• A mom and pop grocery store owner shot and killed a gunman during a robbery.

• Rosenberg Lamar Consolidated beat Copperas Cove 20-14 in Round Rock for the Class 4A Division I high school football championship.

• The Rockets fell to the Dallas Mavericks 96-83 Saturday night at the Toyota Center. Yao had a double double with 28 points and 14 rebounds while Shane Battier needed four stitches after Dirk Nowitzki whacked him on the forehead in the first quarter.