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Houston vs. Dallas. Does anything else need to be said? Robertson Stadium, which is located on the campus of the University of Houston, will be hosting two different versions of this great Texas rivalry. Tonight, the 2006 MLS Champion Houston Dynamo will take on FC Dallas in the second game of this home-and-home Western Conference semi-final playoff game. In the first game, which FC Dallas hosted, the Hoops took game 1 of this aggregate-scoring...

Good morning, Houston. So, how about this: According to Popular Science, Houston is the 10th most high-tech city in the nation — ahead of both Dallas (No. 27) and Austin (No. 53). The rankings were based on 36 indicators, including technology in science, the number of Wi-Fi hotspots in cities, and research budgets at local universities. The final ranking, then, had to do with more than the Internet: It took into account things like...

Local tech news in a compact, digital format. What Does A Hydrogen Generator Look Like? Last week we told you about Trulite's revolutionary hydrogen generator. This week we found an image of this generator and wanted to share it with you. Bum Shuttle Computer Is From Conroe A computer bound for the space shuttle Endeavour that was found to have been deliberately damaged came from Conroe based Invocon, Inc.. Invocon Inc. is a systems...

Local tech news in a compact, digital format. Chronicle Tech Round Up The tech guys over at the Chron are pumping out the technology news and we are going tell you about it. ---Dwight Silverman Dwight Silverman reviews and discusses the newest version of the popular image editing software, Photoshop. The new version is called Photoshop CS3. Dwight also informs us that Houston is the 5th most e-mail-addicted city in the U.S. A fact...

Good morning, Houston. Are you planning on taking a summer vacation? Here's something to consider, if you are: Continental, along with several other airlines, raised their fares in 30% of the top U.S. markets this week. Some one-way fares are up $10, some $5, and some remain the same. This was a relatively small increase, but will still hit the wallets of summer vactioners. With airfare increasing and gas prices so high, how about...

Local tech news in a compact, digital format. Pay Your Fine Online Houston Municipal Courts are encouraging people who have to pay a fine to use the city's online payment system. By doing so, you can avoid the overcrowding and trouble finding parking around the courts. For more information, check out this story and the municipal courts website. Counter Strike Map Gets Local Student In Trouble A Houston area high school student was expelled...

Good morning, Houston. If anyone out there's looking for a show idea to pitch to MTV, may we suggest The Real World: Monsatery? Based on the statements of Hugh Brian Fallon, a monk from Blanco, The Christ of the Hills monastery would fit right in with the Real World drama: Fallon told authorities that fellow monk Samuel Greene encouraged sex among the monks, offered people marijuana when they were having problems and faked tears...

Good morning, Houston. We know what you're thinking this morning: "Sure," you're thinking, "this has been a pretty good week, but it would be way better if I got to walk through a giant model of the human colon!" Boy, are you in luck — a 25-foot interactive model of the colon will be at Ben Taub tomorrow. The Super Colon, as it's called, will be open from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at...

Now, seriously — is there anything more fun than stupid criminals? (The times you used to load up on Pop Rocks and ride the teacups at AstroWorld don't count. Or was that just us?) Today, KPRC brings us the story of a couple of would-be fugitives who apparently didn't read the part of the car-chase manual where it says not to lead the police to your own house.

Things must be pretty boring over at Channel 2: One of the station's news stories today is "Trash Can Catches Fire At Middle School." So we're thinking, "Oh, the trash can blaze must have gotten out of control and ended up enveloping the school in a fiery holocaust, right?" Well, no. Here's the story:

Harris County DA investigators searched TSU President Priscilla Slade's house today, looking for documents related to the home's landscaping and security system An Aldine high school teacher has resigned in the midst of allegations that she had an inappropriate relationship with a 16-year-old male student Gas prices in Texas were back up this week, closing at an average of $2.85 a gallon, up 3 cents over last week's average A traffic stop in Slidell, La.,...

The price of crude oil fell below $72 a barrel today on news that demand for gas is decrasing A Houston judge ordered a Houston physician not to call herself a doctor anymore today after sentencing Callie Hall Herpin to 10 years in jail for writing hundreds of unnecessary prescriptions A Humble woman is being chased out of her apartment by swarms of bees A Fort Bend student died from a gunshot wound he got...

City Councilwoman Shelley Sekula-Gibbs said today she'll seek the nomination for Tom DeLay's seat in the November election The mother of missing 3-year-old Kendrick Jackson is standing by Kendrick's dad, Roderick Fountain, the prime suspect in the disappearance Community leaders said they'll work to increase support of the TSU/HISD Lab School, which is included on the school district's list of campuses to close A man was rescued from his car last night after driving into...

A Houston lawyer has filed suit against the city and HPD for $1 million, claiming a police officer threw her cell phone, shoved her against a wall, handcuffed and arrested her while she was trying to assert her client's rights last year. Tina Marie Andrews claims she was talking with a client at a west side apartment Feb. 18, 2005, when Officer Justin H. Kennedy knocked at the door. Andrews said she told Kennedy she represented the people living in the apartment and asked him to stop questioning them, and Kennedy became verbally abusive.

An aluminum oxide fire at a Deer Park chemical plant has shut down part of Highway 225 this afternoon; one injury is reported Marcus Anthony Wilson has been charged with four counts of burglary in a string of East End crimes during the fall and winter A Houston family is offering a $500 reward for information on who killed more than two dozen goats at their Waller County ranch last week Today was Taxi Appreciation...

Houstonist had never thought about it before, but our apartment is a lot like Earth's orbit: Both are full of junk, and the amount will likely increase in the near future. Though we can do a quick clean-up by shoving everything in the closet, though, NASA might have a harder time when it starts trying to clean up space.

From Houstonist's "Maybe It's Time to Find a New Place to Live" file: A Houston woman became suspicious when she would come home to find lights on that she knew she'd turned off when she left her apartment. So she set up a cleverly disguised camera, and what she found was rather disgusting.

A Houston man was sentenced to life in prison for killing a Goodwill store manager during a holdup last December Mayor Bill's crime victims advocate says the public should be informed when felons break out of halfway houses Police say "Spiderman" Alain Robert might have been planning to get high on more than One Houston Center Forty-two Katy ISD employees may be in trouble for allegedly using district computers to send campaign e-mails, a...