- Remember when the lights were out after Hurricane Ike? Those days in the dark will cost Houston an estimated $6 billion or more
- And, though burying Houston's power lines sounds like a good idea in Ike's wake, doing so could cost billions of dollars — and we'd feel the impact on our electric bills
- Quanell X, testifying in the murder trial of Timothy Shepherd, the man accused of murdering his girlfriend, cooking her body on a barbecue grill and throwing it in a Dumpster: 'He just really didn't give a damn'
- Houston Astros pitcher Brandon Backe was arrested early Sunday morning after a brawl at a Galveston hotel bar
- Two bodies hand been found on Goat Island off Bolivar, taking Ike's Texas death toll to 35 and the national toll to 70
- Three weeks after the storm, there are nearly 1,500 polluted sites that still need to be cleaned up, officials say
- Ike ended up being a campaign boost for Harris County Judge Ed Emmett, but challenger David Mincberg is still in the running for the office
- A four-alarm fire at a southeast Houston apartment complex Saturday afternoon destroyed eight units, but there were no injuries
- Houston's Continental Airlines is the only major American carrier to still offer free meals on board its flights
- Mayor Bill White laid down some partisan smack during a Harris County Democratic Party fund raiser last week
- Kent Whitaker, the Sugar Land man who survived a murder plot hatched by his son, has told his story in a new book
- Hurricane Ike caused about $23 million in damage to Houston's airports, with IAH taking the lion's share
- Meet Hilmar G. Moore, the 89-year-old mayor of Richmond — and one straight-talking guy
- And, a story of something that somehow came through the hurricane unscathed: a bag of Christmas ornaments that drifted from Sabine Pass to Corpus Christi
- Eric Berger's Ike survey results are in, and you can check them out — with analysis
- Today's weather: For the first time in a while, we'll have a chance of rain this afternoon — and the humidity is back, too, for a bit. Expect a high around 86, some clouds and an overnight low in the lower 70s.
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