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Good morning, Houston. These days, when everyone and their dog has a computer, it's getting harder to remember the days when all "official" writing was done on typewriters. The practical modern typewriter was invented in 1868 by an engineer named Christopher Latham Sholes, but it wasn't until 121 years ago today — Sept. 14, 1886 — that George K. Anderson of Memphis got a patent for the typewriter ribbon. They were originally made of...

Just in time for the evening rush hour, the outbound lanes of the Katy Freeway were closed for six hours Thursday afternoon after an 18-wheeler burst into flames. The accident happened at about 2 p.m. when the driver of an 18-wheeler moving truck scraped a concrete barrier as he was trying to exit the Katy HOV lane between Gessner and Bunker Hill; the scrape damaged a diesel fuel tank, which caught fire. The Chronicle reports...

Katy Freeway chaos is getting to be a weekly ritual: This weekend, you can expect yet more delays on the west side. It hurts so good.