- Houston's first Hispanic female police officer has died at 78 due to injuries sustained in a drive-by shooting
- Super Unleaded for $2/gallon at Houstonist HQ! Kidding. But someone has a few extra gallons after stealing 7,000 gallons of fuel from a Galveston filling station.
- Sharon Brown may take the stand today to make her case against Victoria Osteen
- The back-to-school tax break happens this weekend
- A Katy cheerleading squad has to put their herkies on hold pending the outcome of a hazing investigation
- Carlos Lee's pinkie surgery was no small job and will cause him to miss the rest of the season
- Glenn Eller, a Katy native, won the gold medal in double trap shooting in Beijing. He attributes his improvement over the 2000 & 2004 games to his service in the US Army.
- UH alumnus and Russian Olympian Yulia Pakhalina won a silver medal in Sychronized Diving
- Baytown puts its foot down on red light runners
- A Houston woman charged with kidnapping five children has filed for custody of Katrina survivors stating that they were abused by their mother
- The Army's Houston Recruiting Battalion faces another tragedy as another recruiter has apparently taken his own life
- A driver and his passenger where injured and several chickens were killed when the car crashed into a chicken coop leaving some Chron.com commenters wondering if the birds should be grilled or buried
- When all else fails, keep it in your pants, which is what a bank robber dubbed the Bagless Bandit did with the money
- Today's weather: Here comes the rain, again. A 20% chance of showers increases to 60% this afternoon and evening yet the humidity will drop during the same period. Huh. 92 is your high; expect it around 16:00.
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