May 12, 2008
Morning Roundup
- A woman has been charged with abandoning a child after she allegedly kidnapped the wrong toddler, then dumped the kid several miles away
- Despite millions of dollars in campus improvements, HISD says it's considering shutting Key Middle School's doors for good
- A string of evidence bungles has led the Texas Ranger to audit the Galveston police department
- The results of local elections this weekend: $500M school bond passes in Klein; new courthouse OK'd for Fort Bend; mayoral runoffs ahead in Sugar Land and League City
- And in Galveston, three proponents of controlled growth won seats on City Council, two of them ousting incumbents
- Financial problems may have led a northeast Houston immigrant to kill himself, his wife and their three children this weekend
- DId you think the story of Roland Carnaby, the man shot by HPD who claimed to be a CIA agent, couldn't get any stranger? Think again
- A Humble pastor has asked his church to forgive the teens who reportedly dug up a boy's corpse and used his skull as a bong
- What else is falling into the Great Liberty County Sinkhole? Daisetta's economy
- Missouri City is suing for eminent domain over a run-down country club
- The UH softball team fell to Central Florida 4-2 in the Conference USA championship this weekend
- If you're a restaurant owner, how do you deal with rising costs of food and transportation? You get clever
- A proxy advisory firm is joining descendants of the Rockefeller family in recommending that Exxon Mobil chief Rex Tillerson drop one of his posts — chairman or CEO — so the top position can be split
- Want to know what happened at Jenna Bush's wedding this weekend? The Rev. Kirbyjon Caldwell and President Bush tell all (sorta)
- A group has bought the St. Joseph Professional Building downtown with plans for a $7.8 million renovation
- Continental Airlines head Larry Kellner: Expect demand for air travel to decline as the cost of fuel goes up
- Matt Stiles of the Chronicle takes us on a photo tour of some of Houston's worst apartment complexes
- And Stiles' colleague Eric Berger has slowed down on the freeway and — ready for this? — finds it helps with his gas mileage
- Ever wondered why cars in Texas are required to have two license plates? Read and learn
- Today's weather: Partly sunny, high 83, low 71
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I smell a TV movie deal coming out of this CIA car chase shooting.