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So if you live south of Houston, you might want to consider using one of your sick days today — or maybe leaving for work really early: Traffic is still backed up for miles because of a 12-car pileup on northbound Highway 288. The good news is that the wrecked vehicles have been cleared; the bad news is that traffic watchers don't expect the congestion to clear up until after rush hour is over. The...

About 300 Pit Bulls from a single home in Liberty County are being seized today. The home is the location of a suspected dog fighting ring, and also the site of a fatal home invasion.

Perhaps Houstonist was naive in thinking animal shelters were safe places, or maybe (more likely) we'd just never thought about it, but in either case we almost cried in our Cap'n Crunch this morning when we read about the euthanasia rate in Houston's major shelters. A city task force has been looking at the number of animals who are killed rather than being put up for adoption: More than 80,000 animals that entered the area's...