- Videotaped testimony describing how Kimberly Trenor, the mother of "Baby Grace," abused her baby while trying to teach her manners brought jurors to tears Tuesday in Trenor's capital murder trial
- The transition to digital TV could leave some area residents without television during hurricane season
- Valero will temporarily close its refinery in Texas City while maintenance is performed, the result of a declining demand for gas
- In other news, oil closed at $41.58 Tuesday, down 9 percent on more bad economic news
- And Houston's Baker Hughes announced yesterday it will cut 1,500 jobs, or 4 percent of its workforce
- Freeze Texas college students' tuitions at freshman levels, Gov. Rick Perry urged lawmakers in his State of the State speech yesterday
- Abortion opponents took their concerns over a new Planned Parenthood HQ to City Council on Tuesday
- Reactions to Mayor Bill White's letter advertising One Park Place, the new downtown residential tower: 'I would love a letter from the mayor,' one developer says
- The driver of an SUV that crashed head-on into another vehicle early Tuesday was speeding, a police officer who saw the crash says
- Supporters of Galveston's Shriners Burn Hospital are lobbying the head of the Shriners system to keep the hospital open
- Folks living along Washington Avenue are learning a shocking lesson: When you live in a townhome built up against railroad tracks, you can hear the trains
- Today's weather: Remember yesterday, when it was warm? Yeah, not so much of that today — expect morning rain giving way to clear skies and a high of 50, complete with gusty north winds. Tonight we'll get down to 35. Brr!

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Um, seriously? They want the city to close the intersections so the trains don't have to blow their horns? They should have taken the time to realize that there are train tracks nearby. Move back to the suburbs and quit ruining Houston for the rest of us, people.