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From local Houston headlines, we bring you these weekend news bits...

From local Houston headlines, we bring you these weekend news bits...

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...

Good morning, Houston. Looks like we'll have a tougher time cracking out those fake Benjamins next year: The $100 bill will soon be getting a high-tech makeover to thwart counterfeiters. The key feature: 650,000 tiny lenses embedded in each bill, which will magnify the printing so that the portrait of Benjamin Franklin appears to move up and down or side to side, depending on which way you move the bill. "It makes for a...

Good morning, Houston. When we hear the words "concrete canoe," two other words come to mind: "doesn't float." But our instincts are wrong: Concrete canoes can be seaworthy, and one created by University of Houston engineering students floats so well that it's headed for the national concrete canoe competition in Seattle. The national contest is set for mid-June, and it could lead the team to a spot in the international competition in Holland in...

Bizarre news from Sharpstown Center: Yesterday afternoon, a security guard at the mall shot another security guard, then went to his car and shot himself in the head. Investigators are still trying to figure out exactly how it all started; fortunately, neither man died, and both are recovering at Ben Taub.

Good morning, Houston! There's some good news: If you graduated from high school, you're already ahead of a third of Texas students. Of course, that means there's also some bad news — namely, that a third of Texas students don't finish high school. And according to statistics, the situation is even worse in the state's big cities: There, more students drop out than finish high school. Elleen Coppola, a Rice University researcher, said dropouts...

An HPD officer barely avoided injury last night by jumping out of the way when a speeding SUV rammed into the back of his patrol car, wedging it under the back of an 18-wheeler. It happened at about 12:30 a.m. on the Katy Freeway at Heights Boulevard, where the officer had pulled the 18-wheeler over; the officer was outside his car when the SUV drove right into the back of his squad car.

An HPD officer has been transferred to desk duty in a disagreement over who was responsible for letting a man with a non-bomb board a plane at Hobby Airport recently. It happened June 26, when a man "with a Middle Eastern name" and a ticket for a Delta flight to Atlanta told airport screeners he didn't have a laptop in his baggage, though an X-ray machine indicated he did. Screeners searched the man's bags and found a clock with a 9-volt battery taped to it and a copy of the Quran; the screeners also found that the soles of the man's shoes had been hollowed out. No explosives were found on the man, but a TSA screener reported that "the shoes had been tampered with and there were all the components of (a bomb) except the explosive itself."

An HPD officer who earned more than $100,000 in overtime pay last year decided to resign from the force after the police department began an investigation into his overtime, HPD and police union officials said yesterday. William Lindsey Jr., 50, made news earlier this year for his pay — $170,000 last year, the highest of any officer — and for the fact that he had racked up an impressive number of reprimands in his 27 years with the force.

Vince Young on being passed over by the Texans: 'If I get picked to play for a team that's going to be playing them, it's going to be pretty rough on them' Kirby Drive was closed between Westheimer and Fairview this afternoon after a construction crew broke a gas line Houston plastic surgeon Mark Gilliland began serving two years in jail today for the 2005 Galleria-area hit-and-run accident that severely injured two British television producers...

First-day individual sales for the Rodeo were up this year, with George Strait's opening-night performance the hottest seller Thousands of people turned out downtown today to see Vince Young in a parade — oh, and to remember MLK, too Gexa Energy's lack of recognition for MLK Day is prompting calls for a boycott against the electricity provider A northeast Harris County woman ran over her granddaughter and another little girl who were playing in her...