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While most of the baseball world was focused yesterday on the races for the final playoff spots, including the Mets historic collapse in the NL East, as usual, Craig Biggio was just doing his job, just like he's done for the past 20 years. But for the first time in 20 years, Biggio won't be going back to work today. For those of us who grew up in Houston, Biggio is just as much a...

A Pasadena eighth-grader was removed from school when authorities discovered he was carrying an unloaded pistol "for protection" — and in Cy-Fair, a busload of students was searched after the bus driver saw one student with a gun Arturo Maturino Resendiz, the "Railroad Killer," is set to die May 10 for a 1998 murder in West U. Ex-Astros radio announcer Alan Ashby is a candidate for head of the Harris County-Houston Sports Authority Bidders flocked...

Things are changing in the Astros broadcast booth: Drayton McLane and team President Pam Gardner told veteran broadcaster Alan Ashby yesterday that he won't be returning for the 2006 season. Ashby, who played with the 'Stros for 11 years and has been in the booth with the team for eight years doing color, hoped to do play-by-play for road games next year, but instead, the team will go with a pair of rookies: The Astros...