- As Hurricane Dolly heads for Texas, Galveston is preparing for high tides while Houston gets ready for slightly cooler weather
- Speaking of Dolly: This is the third most active July in history in terms of hurricanes
- Sunmart, a The Woodlands-based gas station chain, has been short-changing customers at the pump, a state official says
- Two men robbed two convenience stores within 25 minutes in April, police said yesterday; officers are still searching for them
- The Harris County Sheriff's Office will pay deputies overtime for covering vacancies in its patrol division
- Neighbors rescued six children from a burning home in southwest Houston on Tuesday morning
- An airplane carrying seven members of Congress from Texas, including Ron Paul, made an emergency landing in New Orleans yesterday after losing cabin pressure
- Traffic on Harris County toll roads is down 2 to 3 percent from last year, officials say, likely the result of rising gas prices
- If you're interested, you can vote on which crappy architectural style you'd like to see in a condo development planned for the Bistro Vino site
- Cars swerving to avoid debris on the Gulf Freeway ended up killing a TxDOT worker yesterday
- T. Boone Pickens: We need to build more wind farms to reduce our dependence on foreign oil
- HEB has recalled fresh jalapeños, fresh pico and items containing raw jalapeños following an FDA salmonella warning
- Harris County commissioners awarded a $973K contract to Enterprise Rent-a-Car on Tuesday — even though the county is suing Enterprise over $2 million in unpaid fees, tolls and fines
- A Galveston homeless man's claim that a pile of concrete collapsed on three of his friends was a false alarm, investigators found
- Today's weather: Hello, Dolly! There's a strong chance of rain for the next couple of days, with highs around 90 and lows in the upper 70s; things should return to summer normal by the end of the week
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