- Exxon Mobil is getting out of the retail gas business: The company on Thursday announced plans to sell 2,200 gas stations to distributors
- Downtown, a pedestrian was knocked through a plate-glass window at Pennzoil Place after she was struck by an out-of-control car
- A southwest Houston woman was robbed at gunpoint on her way home from church Wednesday night; ironically, the perps stole her Bible
- Houston City Councilman James Rodriguez: More red-light cameras! More!
- The family of a woman killed in Wednesday's explosion at the Goodyear plant has filed suit against the company, claiming gross negligence
- HISD's trustees have approved a plan to set up two new schools at the Sam Houston High campus: a ninth-grade academy focusing on college and career programs and a high school specializing in math, science and technology
- Spike strips on the Gulf Freeway in Clear Lake stopped both criminals and cops during a police chase Thursday morning
- A cavalcade of Continental Airlines news: Houston and Newark will be hardest-hit by flight reductions, but the airline said it expects solid demand this summer; also, $413 million from a deal with Chase Bank will help Continental pay out all that severance
- Meet Claudina Jones, an 89-year-old Houston woman who's thwarting crime at her Napoleon Street home with a no-nonsense sign
- Baylor College of Medicine professor Dr. Pavel Nizin has pleaded no contest to charges of stalking how daughter's former fiancé
- 14 years after it began, work on the Sims Bayou flood-control project is getting close to being finished
- Have a look at the new 17-story tower planned for Post Oak Boulevard
- This weekend's weather: More of the usual — highs in the lower 90s, lows in the mid 70s, with a slight chance of rain (slightly less slight Saturday) and a heat index hotter than a backyard barbecue at the Playboy mansion. All in all, a good weekend for staying indoors, we think.
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