- One person died and seven were injured Thursday when storm winds topped walls at the McMurtry College construction site on the Rice University campus
- Flying? Try not to think about the competence of the air traffic controllers at Hobby
- Continental Airlines has formed a partnership with United, a move the companies hope will help them deal with rising fuel costs
- The airlines aren't the only ones having trouble with gas prices: According to Allstate, more Texans are running out of gas on the highway these days
- A Metro bus crashed into a lot full of BMWs Thursday, injuring 15 people and 15 or 16 vehicles
- Searchers looking for a two missing Pasadena kids are on the lookout for a suitcase and wooden chest that they think could hold clues to the children's whereabouts
- The keel of the Cynthia Woods, the A&M sailboat that sunk earlier this month, was found off the coast of Freeport Thursday
- Eleven train cars full of corn syrup derailed in Pearland yesterday; no one was injured
- Some Houstonians have started trying to conserve energy after the state PUC issued a yellow energy alert
- This weekend's weather: Hot, definitely; rainy, perhaps. Expect highs in the low 90s with heat indices over 100 each afternoon, with lows in the mid 70s at night and a chance of afternoon storms every day.
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