- A 17-year-old Spring High School students has been arrested and charged with raping a fellow student during school last week
- The city has worked out the takeover of a troubled north Houston apartment complex whose managers tried to sip town Wednesday
- Mayor Bill White isn't happy with FEMA's response (or lack of it) to Ike victims: 'There's too much bureaucracy. People are not acting with a sense of urgency'
- Meanwhile, FEMA is spending its time sending out e-mails warning people to watch for hurricanes that won't hit them — all the time
- HPD officers conducting a drug raid on Halloween ended up finding something unexpected: the customer files of about 800 people who bought cars from a local dealership in 2006
- Some Houstonians are reacting to Obama's election by stocking up on firearms, fearing the new president will be tougher on gun control
- Oil prices neared $60 a barrel Thursday, the lowest price in about a year and a half
- The new southbound lanes of the Galveston Causeway have opened, but closures on I-45 continued to tie up traffic
- Some folks in Deer Park are getting a little rumbly in the tummy — maybe because there's something in the water?
- Gina Thomas, a Wheatley High School administrator, was reassigned this week after police found pot in her car; Thomas is the third HISD employee arrested on drug charges in three weeks
- A group of ducks that wandered onto West Little York yesterday morning are believed to have caused a traffic accident; in a case of instant karma, some of the ducks were promptly killed by nearby dogs
- Wondering what to do with all those now-pointless campaign signs around town? Oh, the possibilities are endless
- None of those $400 newspaper front pages around here: The Chronicle announced that it will keep printing copies of Wednesday's edition as demand dictates
- Finally, research at Rice that we can all love: healthy beer!
- This weekend's weather: Looks like we're headed for a beautiful weekend: Expect highs in the upper 70s and lows in the lower 50s through Sunday, with lots of sun — but only during the day. Get outside already!
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