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So it's really hard to dispute that Clara Harris ran over and killed her husband, David, in a Nassau Bay hotel parking lot in 2002 — the whole thing was caught on video by a detective firm Harris had hired after her husband confessed to having an affair. But what Harris, who is serving a 20-year sentence for murder, hopes is that she can dispute the quality of her defense during her 2003 trial. Harris...

Police have arrested Stevdrick Jackson in connection with the murder of a southeast Houston convenience store clerk Monday Roderick Fountain, a suspect in the disappearance of 3-year-old Kendrick Jackson, tried to get his wife to lie about who owned a gun in a jail phone call he didn't know was being recorded Jordy Tollett is back in charge of the Greater Houston Convention and Visitors Bureau after a temporary leave of absence A judge granted...

One of the jurors who found Andrea Yates not guilty by reason of insanity last week is speaking up now, saying the verdict was all right, but what the local justice system really needs is a way to find people guilty but insane.

We all heard about the verdict in the Andrea Yates trial yesterday, sure. But now that post-trial interviews are coming out, we're finding out about something else jurors agreed on: Their job was tough.

Jurors have found Andrea Yates not guilty by reason of insanity in her capital murder retrial after nearly 13 hours of deliberation. The verdict means Yates will be sent to a state mental hospital with periodic hearings before a judge to determine whether she should be released. From the Chronicle's report:

Jurors began deliberating this afternoon in the capital murder retrial of Andrea Yates Three people were injured today in an accident during routine maintenance at the Chevron Phillips chemical plant in Baytown Christine Marie Paolilla, accused of a quadruple murder in Clear Lake three years ago, made her first court appearance today A friend of a young woman believed to be the latest victim of a local serial killer says she came face-to-face with the...

">summed up their cases this morning during closing arguments in the Andrea Yates retrial: The prosecution pointed to what it said was evidence Yates knew drowning her five children was wrong, while the defense called her actions the results of a "heart attack of the mind."

A psychiatrist who interviewed Andrea Yates after her kids' deaths and reviewed other interviews gave an interesting insight in Yates' capital murder retrial yesterday, saying Yates drowned her children because she believed they would end up living in sin and would go to hell.

Yesterday in the Andrea Yates trial, a forensic psychiatrist testified at length that Yates acted as though she understood what might happen after she killed her five children — though it didn't initially occur to her that she might be executed for doing it. Testimony from Michael Welner centered on a 14-hour interview he had with Yates in May concerning her feelings after she was picked up by police in June 2001, including her reaction when she heard a radio talk-show host threaten to shoot her between the eyes:

">testified yesterday that Yates said she planned the deaths and knew they were wrong.

Former Mayor Bob Lanier is alert and stable this evening following his collapse at Ken Lay's memorial service Fort Bend police are looking for two 18-year-old boys in connection with the death of 16-year-old Ashton Glover; both of them were reportedly friends with the girl Three suspects stole a handful of motorcycles in a "smash-and-grab" robbery in north Harris County this morning, police say Police are investigating the second body found in Brays Bayou in...

The defense in the Andrea Yates trial rested this afternoon; the state will now begin rebuttal and the case could go to the jury sometime next week Fort Bend detectives say they've made progress in their investigation of the death of Ashton Glover, the 16-year-old Sugar Land girl whose body was found in a field yesterday In Houston, the police officers' union is gathering the last responses to a survey it issued about HPD Chief...

The AP reported this weekend that Wyeth, the maker of an antidepressant Andrea Yates took before she drowned her five kids in 2001 recently added "homicidal ideation" to the list of possible side effects — but Yates' attorney said that won't affect her capital murder retrial. No cases have been reported in which the drug, Effexor, caused homicidal thoughts, and Wyeth didn't notify doctors about the possible effect because the company said it is rare. "We believe there is no causal link between Effexor and homicidality," Wyeth spokeswoman Gwen Fisher said. "In our minds, we've taken every precaution."

Police found a man who had been shot to death in a car at a southwest Houston apartment complex yesterday afternoon, but they don't know who he is or who killed him A psychiatrist testified Friday that he warned Andrea Yates not to have more children when she attempted suicide after the birth of her fourth child in 1999 There's been a crime spike in the Fort Bend County suburbs in recent months, the KTRK...

Andrea Yates showed signs of severe mental illness and psychosis in the weeks before she drowned her five children, doctors and Yates' former mother in law testified yesterday in Yates' capital murder retrial. At least one doctor who saw Yates before the killings said she presented a substantial risk to herself and other people: "She was one of the sickest people I've ever seen, and I think she was suffering from some sort of mental...

Police say a grenade was found in HPD's accident division at 61 Reisner this afernoon; an investigation is under way (KPRC says the grenade was live, but KTRK is reporting it wasn't) A shipping truck wrecked and caught fire early this afternoon in the Katy Freeway HOV lane near Gessner, closing all outbound lanes; the freeway is not expected to fully reopen until 9 p.m. Dexter Johnson, accused of being the ringleader of the group...

The prosecution in the Andrea Yates retrial rested its case yesterday after its final witness, medical examiner Dr. Luis Sanchez, testified further about the condition of the bodies of Yates' children after she drowned them in her Clear Lake home in June 2001. Sanchez said it took at least three minutes of being held underwater in a bathtub for each child to lose consciousness, and up to 10 minutes for each to die.

The U.S. Supreme Court overturned part of Texas' redistricting map today, saying some of the new divisions didn't protect minority voting rights Sheriff's officers are searching for Hector Caranza, a 5-year-old boy discovered to be missing from his northeast Harris County home this morning Orlando Sanchez, the newly named Republican candidate for Harris County treasurer, is suggesting that talk about eliminating the office of county treasurer is discriminatory against him Webster Smith, a Coast Guard...

Yesterday, the second day of Andrea Yates' retrial for the 2001 drowning deaths of her five children, a former cellmate of Yates' testified that Yates had described to her what it was like killing her kids, pointing out that the oldest, 7-year-old Noah, put up a fight. The two shared a cell at the Harris County Jail's psychiatric unit in May 2002.

Timothy Randle, one of five people charged in connection with a crime spree that left four people dead, said he is innocent today in an interview with KPRC from his jail cell During the second day of her retrial for drowning her five children, Andrea Yates sobbed this morning as she watched a police video showing her kids' bodies Harris County Republicans nominated Orlando Sanchez, a former city councilman and mayoral candidate, as their candidate...

A prosecutor told jurors today that Andrea Yates killed her five children because she thought she was a bad mother and wanted to be punished A woman trying to run down another woman ran her car into a crowd of people at a party early this morning, injuring the target and a nearby man Gov. Rick Perry and officials cut the ribbon today to open a 10-mile section of the reconstructed Katy Freeway between the...

A pair of bodies found in a northeast Houston field are believed to be those of Maria Chrisalee Aparece and Huy Ngo, who have been missing since Sunday and are believed to have been the vicims of carjackers The Mexican government is opposing the execution of Angel Maturino Resendiz, the "Railroad Killer," saying mentally ill people shouldn't be subject to the death penalty The average price for a gallon of gas in Houston dropped 4...

Police have arrested three men — Bakari Holland, 18, Koty Holmes, 19, and Rashard Renfro, 23 — in connection with the carjacking Tuesday night that left a toddler dead A judge ruled today that Andrea Yates must turn herself in to the Harris County Jail by Monday evening to wait for her retrial in the 2001 drowning deaths of her children Oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens' son Michael was charged with burglary after he was...

Andrea Yates' capital murder case has been delayed because of scheduling problems with defense witnesses. Jury selection was scheduled to begin Monday, but State District Judge Belinda Hill pushed it back to June 22, with testimony scheduled to start June 26. The new date will allow two psychiatrists, George Ringholz and Lucy Puryear, to testify on Yates' behalf.