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Each week Houstonist checks out the Missed Connections on Craiglist. Here's a few that we found interesting.

Happy first weekend of September - and happy Labor Day weekend, too, for our American cities! Let's take a look at what's been happening around the Ist-a-verse. The deaths of two firefighters shook Bostonist this week. Boston's firefighters bent over backwards all week long - first, they fought flames pouring from the Boston Tea Party museum, and then a restaurant fire killed two and injured many more. Their efforts make everything else - like Tom...

There were some people channeling our sentiments on Missed Connections this week, along with a very cheap Yahoo user and an elusive ice skating cowboy. Read on:

A bizarre scene that involved a car accident, an SUV atop a Cadillac and gunfire reportedly brought traffic to a standstill along the Southwest Freeway in front of Memorial Hermann Southwest hospital yesterday morning — but thanks to TV news, it's hard to know exactly what happened.

The rain that's been passing through the area since late last night has made things a mess out there: On the East Freeway near Wayside Drive, most lanes flooded just before 6 a.m., causing a big traffic jam, and at least one person died in a car accident that police say was likely caused by the rain. On the plus side, though, this weather should move out of our area by lunchtime, paving the...

A police chase early this morning ended with the two suspects getting away and police finding a shotgun, purse and ski masks in their car. It clearly means something, but Houstonist has no idea what it is: The guys were trying to be as stereotypical as possible while robbing people? In drag?

So if you're paranoid, here's something else you might want to worry about: Your car's heated seats could kill you. Yes, KHOU found a guy who suffered serious burns from his car's heated seats, which reached a scorching 165 degrees. Not to make light of his case, but is it sweeps week or what?

Ask around our great nation, and, in-between the stereotypes about cowboy hats and skies that are not cloudy all day, you may well hear that Houston’s a welcoming city. A city that opened its arms — and its stadium — to the victims of Hurricane Katrina, a good city for business, maybe even a city where the American dream’s going strong.

Charles Ray Mumphrey, the brother of a man recently cleared of rape charges by DNA testing, confessed to the crime for which his brother served 18 years in prison Police kicked dozens of homeless people out of encampments downtown today as part of an ongoing program to address complaints from residents and businesses A new county juvenile justice center is set to open downtown in April, but officials say it'll be overcrowded from day one...