- Two ex-Harris County deputies are suing new Sheriff Adrian Garcia, claiming unfair treatment
- Relatives say they believe LaQuanda D. Williams kidnapped her two children during a visit at their grandfather's Missouri City home
- Texas gas prices are now half of what they were at this time last year, according to AAA Texas; the average price statewide is $1.47 a gallon for regular unleaded
- A Houston man has been charged with endangering a child after leaving his 5-month-old grandson alone in a park Friday; his daughter says he had been drinking
- A Sizzler restaurant in northwest Houston was destroyed by fire over the weekend, which raises a question: There are still Sizzlers?
- A Magnolia man claims the work boots he bought at Wal-Mart caused an allergic reaction; his wife is asking the store to stop selling the boots
- Galveston's Grand 1894 Opera House re-opened Saturday, its 114th birthday, more than three months after being flooded during Ike
- Police are searching for the person who killed an elderly man whose body was found Saturday at the Seabrook Yacht Club
- As President Bush heads into his last days in office, his Texas advisers are drawing some criticism — and here's how they fared in retrospect
- And in state politics, Texas House Speaker Tom Craddick took his name out of the running for re-election to the speaker post this weekend, freeing his supporters to back someone else
- An unexpected consequence of Hurricane Ike: Area residents are flocking to buy watercraft to replace what they lost in the storm
- Swamplot bids goodbye to Randall Davis' Titan, the proposed Uptown luxury high-rise that didn't make it off the drawing board thanks to the economic downturn
- In a development that isn't creepy at all, the family of 1950s rock star The Big Bopper will auction the Bopper's casket on eBay
- Today's weather: Colder, in case you haven't already noticed. Expect a 50 percent chance of rain today with a high this afternoon in the upper 40s, followed by a better chance of rain and a low of 41 tonight.
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