- Rainfall totals are in from this weekend, including 6.02 inches in an hour at Clear Creek and a weekend total of 9.65 inches in League City
- Chanton Jenkins, the 32-year-old driver of the car that crashed into Greens Bayou on Saturday, killing five children, has been charged with four counts of intoxication manslaughter
- What's on Houstonians' minds? The economy, first of all, according to the 2009 Houston Area Survey
- The emergency medicine faculty at UTMB in Galveston has dwindled to one from a pre-Ike level of 17
- A weird result of this weekend's storms: About 200 people visiting a Kingwood-area park on Sunday ended up being trapped when a giant sinkhole developed on the park's entrance road
- The Harris County Jail failed its latest state inspection, with reports of broken intercoms and toilets and overcrowding in holding cells
- County ethics reform isn't as easy as you'd think, apparently: A list of recommendations prepared by a task force a while back hasn't been enacted yet, the victim of ... politics
- Exxon Mobil has knocked Wal-Mart out of the No. 1 spot on the Fortune 500 list for 2009
- Mayor White has directed $53,000 to repair the home of Marsha Farmer, the whistleblower who reported the misuse of funds in the city's home repair program — and who died in December
- Could gambling come to Galveston? Well, maybe
- Low energy prices and a deepening recession are leading to more job losses in the Houston area, according to statistics from the Texas Workforce Commission
- Today's weather: Sunny and warm, with a high of 78 and a low tonight in the mid 50s.
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