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With all that went down this week, we thought we thought we'd cheer everyone up by giving everyone a double dose of dogs. It was a rollercoaster ride of emotions this week at DCist. Like the rest of country, we were floored by the news of so many dead coming out of Virginia Tech, and with so many of the victims and their relatives from the D.C. area, we felt it important to pay...

Good morning, Houston! Are you a fan of Texas wildflowers? Good news, then: Thanks to a rainy winter, wildflowers are blooming across Central Texas and in parts of North and East Texas. If you're planning a flower-spottin' trip, check out the latest reports of wildflower hotspots — and remember, though it's really not illegal to pick bluebonnets, TxDOT recommends that you refrain from driving into them. Dang. >> Katrina fraud galore: The AP reports...

We're pretty sure all of you (or at least those of you who are in or around Houston) heard the storms that came through town Monday morning. We remember thinking it sounded like bricks were falling out of the air — and at one apartment complex in southwest Houston, it seems they actually were. According to KTRK, the storm caused a wall at the Pipers Crossing complex near Sandpiper and West Airport to collapse, damaging some cars parked nearby. Channel 13 reports that at least four cars suffered severe damage, and bricks from the wall went through some other vehicles' windshields; another wall similar to the one that fell apparently has a lot of cracks, so residents are worried it could go, too.

The Houston Astros are cranking up their public relations machine as part of Major League Baseball's annual Caravan program. Members of the Astros organization, i.e. players (Ausmus, Bagwell & Roy O.), coaches and staff (Milo Hamilton), will be visiting Houston's surrounding areas and parts of Central Texas over the next two weeks. They even squeezed in a casino trip to Lake Charles and a jaunt down south to Monterrey Mexico. So, now's your chance to...

A robbery suspect led police on a two-hour chase today; it ended when the man crashed his pickup into a Pasadena waterway Eskico Truman Garner, a 75-year-old Texas City man, was sentenced to more than 33 years in prison today for trafficking in crack cocaine Also in Texas City, some residents of the apartment complex where an explosion occurred Wednesday still can't go home because of smoke damage and electrical outages And Curtis Jetton, injured...

Happy San Jacinto Day! Celebrate all you want, but you can't visit the San Jacinto Monument yet According to Forbes.com, the Astros are worth $416 million — the 10th most valuable franchise in baseball Roderick Fountain, the father of missing 3-year-old Kendick Jackson, has been charged with illegal possession of a firearm In northeast Harris County today, a toddler was killed when his mother's car ran over him in their driveway In Galveston, the Surfenburg...

State highway officials are accepting proposals for a leg of the Trans-Texas Corridor that would run from North Texas to Mexico, passing west of the Houston area and including links to the Port of Houston. The TTC is a proposed network of superhighways that will include separate lanes for cars and trucks, freight and passenger rail lines and infrastructure for communications and pipelines. The first TTC route will run parallel to Interstate 35 through Central...