May 7, 2008
Morning Roundup
- Are you ready for 90-degree weather? Looks like you'd better be
- The Harris County DA's office will create a public information office responsible for the release of information on the department's activities
- A child started the fire that destroyed a southwest Houston apartment building Friday, arson investigators say
- About 130 Harris County inmates are about to be moved to Louisiana, the beginning of a program meant to reduce overcrowding at county jails
- Police are trying to find a group of men believed to have been responsible for four carjackings in north Harris County
- Chase Tower window washer: 'If I die doing this, I'll die doing what I enjoy'
- Houston doesn't have enough hospital rooms to care for victims of a terrorist attack, a congressional study says
- Meet the frail little old lady who's the television symbol of the Harris County floodway's opponents
- KPRC finds that the city is trying to regulate valet companies, but it's not clear exactly how effective that regulation really is
- More victims of Houston's polluted skies: Bees?
- Sure, an airplane ticket may cost more these days, but the number suggest that more Texans will be traveling abroad this summer
- But it seems one guy isn't wanting for gas: Police say he hijacked a tanker truck full of diesel early Monday morning
- One of a pair of hundred-year-old cast-iron griffins has been stolen from the Bishop's Palace in Galveston
- Today's weather: A chance of afternoon thunderstorms, high 84, low 67
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