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Good morning, Houston. Remember the city's smoking ban, which went into effect in September? Well, so does KPRC. The station checked around and found something that will shock you to your very core: Houstonians are still smoking in bars and restaurants! No, . One of the bars Channel 2 visited was Henry Hudson's Pub on the west side, where reporters found customers and the bartender smoking — and "we even bought a pack of cigarettes out of a machine inside the pub," according to reports. We're just as surprised as you are — and as City Councilwoman Carol Alvarado is. "To be breaking the law so blatantly, obviously these people have no concern, no care, no sensitivity," she said. And no Nicorette, it would seem. KPRC reports that two city smoking inspectors have followed up on 228 complaints since the ban went into effect, which have resulted in more than 60 warnings and four citations.

Good morning, Houston. If you haven't made up a personal budget for 2007 yet, we recommend that you don't run over and kill anyone this year — it can really blow your grand financial schemes, as Mercedes murderess Clara Harris found out last week. Jurors in her wrongful death civil trial decided the dentist should pay her in-laws $3.75 million for their pain and suffering after she ran over and killed their son, her...

We thought we might get some insight into convicted murderer Clara Harris's state of mind when she took the stand yesterday in the wrongful death trial brought by her in-laws — but it turns out we could have learned more form Oprah's jailhouse interview. Harris, who was convicted in 2003 of killing her husband, David, by running him down with her Mercedes, pleaded the Fifth, refusing to answer any of the 27 questions asked of...

So it's really hard to dispute that Clara Harris ran over and killed her husband, David, in a Nassau Bay hotel parking lot in 2002 — the whole thing was caught on video by a detective firm Harris had hired after her husband confessed to having an affair. But what Harris, who is serving a 20-year sentence for murder, hopes is that she can dispute the quality of her defense during her 2003 trial. Harris...

City Council voted today to expand the city's "civility ordinance" to more neighborhoods, including Montrose and the Sixth Ward Clara Harris, the woman accused of running over her husband in a hotel parking lot, has filed an appeal and hired a new lawyer Ralph Sampson, a former Houston Rocket, has agreed to plead guilty to mail fraud related to a vehicle purchase; he will spend two months in jail in Atlanta In a campaign stop...