- HISD chief Abe Saavedra could get a payout close to $1 million when he leaves the district next spring
- Rumor has it that U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee may leave Congress for a new job at the State Department
- Nearly five months after the hurricane, Galveston County has officially ended the search for Ike victims
- Volunteers form the Laura Recovery Center began searching yesterday for Susana de Jesus, the woman abducted from a Pearland parking lot last week
- Yes, it rained yesterday, but that doesn't mean we're out of the proverbial woods when it comes to potential grass fires
- Over at the Municipal Courts, they're still working to get rid of the computer virus that has had everything shut down since the weekend
- Ex-City Councilwoman Eleanor Tinsley died Tuesday at age 82; the Chron's Mike Snyder has a remembrance
- The NAACP and Bellaire city officials have set up a hotline where people can report racial profiling
- Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has charged the owners of a Katy motel with price gouging during Hurricane Ike
- Police say a woman stole a $26,500 ring from a First Colony Mall jewelry store in December
- Things must not be so bad for the Houston-based Kolache Factory chain, which has opened four new stores in the midst of the economic downturn
- What's going on at Wilshire Village? No one really seems to know
- Today's weather: Scattered showers this morning will give way to clouds and then to sun. Expect an afternoon high around 75 and a low tonight around 50.
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