- Mabry Landor is charged with capital murder in the shooting death of HPD officer Timothy Abernethy and is an ex-con with a long rap sheet and is only seven months removed from his last stint inside
- Abernethy is survived by his wife and two children. The 100 Club will be providing support and is collecting donations to add to the fund, which assists families of HPD officers killed in the line of duty
- Midland, Michigan-based Dow announced that it will cut 5,000 jobs, some of which may be in Lake Jackson. Yeah, it's that Dow. They employ roughly 4,500 folks down here.
- Raymond Lee Shaw, the 59 year old man who gunned down his 11 year old neighbor, was sentenced to 15 years yesterday
- A Harris County judge is the latest public official in trouble over email content
- The man who killed Mr. Buck - a male deer - at an animal sanctuary made his first court appearance and could be in the pen for two years if convicted of the felony charge
- Continental plans to conduct a demonstration flight on January 7th
- Got Yao? Check. Got T-Mac? Nope. Got Artest? Nope. Got beat? Check.
- From AstroTurf to Turf Grass, the Houston major leaguers set the bar in playing surfaces
- Seven Comets have been dispersed in a draft designed to place the disenfranchised players on remaining WNBA teams
- Today's weather: "You're gonna need a bigger boat" to get home today if you live in Montrose as thunderstorms are expected (50%). A few weeks back, their kinfolk left people parked in the middle of the street due to flooding lest you forget. High: 74. Low: 40.
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