• The Rockets put a beat down on the Jazz to stay alive last night as the ridiculously long first round of the NBA play offs drag on
• The Urban Land Institute's study on metropolitan infrastructure suggests that Houston decision makers should focus on planning. Wow. We never saw that coming.
• Some folks think the plan should be turning The Astrodome into sound stage to bolster the film industry in Houston and Texas
• Yes! A Houston high school seems to have figured out the graduation game as 100% of its Seniors will attend college.
• Hackers hit Fort Bend ISD. Here's a tip. Look for a kid that asked for a car and got a computer.
• A Polygamist sect teen births a son. Their fate is yet to be decided.
• The mother of a toddler kidnapped from a Houston daycare is suing the owner for one billion dollars. Yeah. Billion with a B.
• In other missing child news, a local seven year-old forgot to tell his folks he was spending the night at a buddy's.

• Looks like The Rocket did more than spend the night with a buddy as Mindy McCready doesn't dispute The Daily News report that she and Roger Clemens were more than friends.
• Infected skeeters are roaming our town trying to spread West Nile
• Authorities are seeking next of kin for local dead
• $55K of buh-ling was stolen in Spuh-ring
• Today's weather: In a word: decent. In two words: high - 81; low - 67; partly cloudy
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