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Good morning, Houston. We remember our days as student drivers — not bad overall, though we did have a pregnant in-car instructor who had a nasty habit of slamming on the brakes every time we passed a doughnut shop. Still, we didn't have it anywhere near as bad as the kid who passed his driver's test Monday, then crashed his car into the side of a Houston DPS office. The driver was parking his...

From local Houston headlines, we bring you these weekend news bits... • There's an Amber Alert for a missing teenager from Fort Bend Co. • Houston Dynamo knock off FC Dallas to advance in MLS Western Conference Playoffs • Local authorities have released artist renderings of Baby Grace • An HPD office was hurt overnight in an accident on the Gulf Freeway. • The Museum of Fine Arts has raised over 3 million dollars...

We noticed a news story yesterday afternoon about a 5-year-old boy who was reportedly in a woman's car when it was stolen from a north Houston gas station — but it turns out that the woman's report was totally fabricated, and now she may face misdemeanor charges. Marissa Aguillar, 29, initially reported that her son, Jordan Rodriguez, was in her gold Chevrolet Impala that was stolen while she was getting gas at the Exxon station...

The Amber Alert for missing 3 year old Danielle Jiminez, allegedly kidnapped by her father after he stabbed her mother to death on Tuesday, has been cancelled. The girl has not yet been found, but police are actively seeking both the little girl and her father, Leando Jiminez. The body of the girl's mother was found in a Channelview parking lot on Monday, and the case is being handled by Harris County detectives rather than HPD.

New Lubbock resident Priscilla Maldonado is only five days old, weighs less than six pounds, needs constant medical care, and shouldn't go out, according to this article in the Chronicle. Her mother, Erica Ysasaga, thought the baby was in good hands when she trusted a woman she'd met at the hospital during the birth, who wore scrubs and identified herself as a nurse. After the birth, the woman visited Ysasaga at home and helped her with small tasks, offering to donate a swing and some clothes to the baby and to put her in a baby pageant with cash prizes. Mother and nurse set off to show the baby off to some neighbors, and Ysasaga was briefly distracted by her two year old son. When she turned around, the woman was gone, and so was Priscilla.

More details today on the high-profile car chase that shut down the North Freeway yesterday: The kidnapped woman and her 4-year-old daughter involved in the chase were release from the hospital and are fine, but investigators are still piecing together the details of the bizarre case. It all started about 2 p.m. Thursday. Police in DeSoto issued an Amber Alert for 4-year-old Kiara Renee Allen and an endangered person report for her mother, Andrea Nichole...