- 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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