Results tagged “au”

Good morning, Houston. In case you didn't hear yesterday, we'll soon see the end of an era in air travel: Beginning Oct. 2, Southwest Airlines will assign passengers a place in line based on the order in which they check in. That means no more of the airline's (in)famous "cattle call" boarding process, which means there's no longer any point in arriving at the airport 16 hours early to get in the A group... more ›

Good morning, Houston. The good thing about having a lovers' spat is that there's almost always someone else out there having one that's far worse — take, for example, the story of a Conroe quarrel that led to a woman ramming her ex-boyfriend's car. Thomas Young-Davis told police that his ex got upset that he had a new girlfriend, so she followed him to a gas station yesterday afternoon, backed into his car twice... more ›

We remember our first job, working at a suburban Houston mall. We proudly negotiated the hourly rate up to $5.00 an hour, contingent on us doing a good job for the first month, during which we would make a whopping $4.75 and hour. Soon after, in 1997, the federal minimum wage was raised to $5.15. Apparently that’s a number the federal government has felt good about, because the minimum wage hasn’t been raised since. (If... more ›

A U.S. district judge refuses to dismiss insider trading charges against former Enron CEO Jeff Skilling ExpressJet shares dropped after Continental announced it will pull 25 percent of its business from the carrier in 2007 City officials are working to catch up on a $7.2 million backlog in evacuee rent payment Detectives recovered a knife and car believed to have been used in the murder of 12-year-old Teketria Buggs Some Galveston County inmates have filed... more ›