- Mayor Bill White: The city will spend up to $1 million a year on additional apartment inspections, including a new team of code inspectors trained to deal with multi-family properties
- Missing Rice University student Matthew Wilson's car was found in Berkeley, Calif., last week, but there's still no sign of Wilson himself
- In Pasadena, police are looking for a 7-year-old boy and his 3-year-old sister who disappeared from their family's apartment Sunday
- Tip: If you're wanted for attempted murder, it's probably not such a great idea to wreck your car and tell the wrecker driver that you're hiding from the fuzz
- The number of Metro bike-bus boardings are skyrocketing as gas prices increase — and the transit agency is ramping up park-and-ride service, too
- A sign that used to bear a racist comment about Barack Obama now bids people to have a nice day
- Are you a woman who likes shooting things? Then you're in luck: Texas officials are trying to get more ladies to hunt in order to offset declining hunting license revenue
- As more Houstonians keep backyard flocks of chickens, more complaints are being filed when people break the rules
- Today's weather: Sunny again, with a high in the mid 90s and a heat index of 103. Tonight, look for a low around 75.
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