- Police and sheriff's deputies are reportedly on the scene in Pearland after reports that a gunman was loose in a subdivision this morning
- Four HPD officers shot and killed a man early Saturday after he shot his wife at her lover's apartment
- Drug cartels that have been causing problems along the U.S.-Mexico border are now bringing trouble to Houston, officials say
- Burying above-ground power lines in the area to make them more hurricane-resistant would cost as much as $33 billion and wouldn't be a cost-effective move, according to a report
- The mother of a teen killed in a street racing accident late last week: 'I believe parents need a wake-up call' about the dangers of racing
- Emilio Navaira, the singer charged in the crash of his tour bus last Easter, finally turned himself in to police over the weekend
- Recent crimes against women in the Houston area have led some local women to learn self-defense — potential attackers beware
- Some institutions in the Medical Center lost power for a few hours Saturday night thanks to an outage at a substation on Fannin
- A number of states are considering dropping the death penalty because it's just too expensive to execute prisoners
- Crews surveying the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico off Galveston for Ike damage may have found the wreckage of a Civil War-era ship, the Carolina
- Also in the Gulf: Crews have found an offshore drilling unit that has been missing since Ike
- Circuit City is officially gone
- Since the Houston SPCA began requiring money and counseling to people who dropped pets off earlier this year, fewer pets have been dropped off and euthanized
- Houston Endowment chief Larry Faulkner: Despite the economic situation, we're still open for business
- The top winners at this year's Rodeo wine competition drew half as much as last year's winners
- Today's weather: Look for some sun with a high around 83 and a low tonight in the upper 60s.
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