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Good morning, Houston. Sure, we've had a lot of rain, but there haven't been any hurricane scares yet — so it's pretty easy to overlook the fact that we're headed into the peak of the 2007 hurricane season. Not that easy, though: The Chronicle's Eric Berger reminds us that there's still some storm activity in the Atlantic, including a system 650 miles east about 650 miles east of the southern Windward Islands that could...

Good morning, Houston. Are you feeling particularly crunk today? Maybe you should be: Crunk is among the words added to Merriam-Webster's collegiate dictionary this year. Also among the 100 new words are DVR, IED, gray literature and smackdown. But we think we'll get the most use out of crunk, which M-W defines as a style of Southern rap music but which has a variety of definitions in the Urban Dictionary. Which brings us to...

Good morning, Houston. As faithful Houstonist readers, you know we have trouble resisting a good crime report, so we were nearly beside ourselves when we read about the family that might have set a grocery store potato chip display on fire in February. Seriously. It happened at a Sellers Brothers on Telephone Road on Feb. 10, and surveillance video — which you can see if you follow the link — shows a young man...

More on the story of the 21 guns that turned up missing from HPD's property room: The Chronicle reports today that independent police department investigator Michael Bromwich had warned city officials two years ago that conditions in the property room could lead to lost evidence. "The property room currently uses a number of forms to track chain of custody," Bromwich wrote in a June 2005 report. "The forms are cumbersome and archaic and increase the...

Remember the city's proposal last year to set a 10 p.m. curfew for kids under age 17? It never really went anywhere, and now City Council is trying again: Yesterday, councilmembers began discussing a proposal to set Houston's juvenile curfew at 11 p.m. HPD Assistant Executive Chief Mike Thaler told councilmembers that the earlier curfew — it's now set at midnight on weekdays — would not only help curb juvenile crime, but would also give...

Soon, you won’t have to go all the way to Clear Lake or Lake Conroe to see a boathouse. Buffalo Bayou is about to get its first boathouse ever – but don’t start packing up your apartment to move there – this boathouse is for dragon boats. The Houston Endowment has donated $75,000 to assist the Texas Dragon Boat Association to build a boathouse at 501 N. York Street. The facility will house the...

Today, KHOU takes a cursory look at the number of people arrested for drunk driving in Houston and finds that it has dropped significantly over the last couple of years — from 6,120 in 2004 to 4,737 last year to 3,709 so far in 2006. A drop of nearly 40 percent is good, right? Well, maybe not. Houston City Councilman Adrian Garcia says one of the reasons for the decline is there are fewer officers...

The recent driveby at Westbury High School and the stabbing of one Lamar student by another in Ervan Chew park in June aren't just isolated incidents, it seems. It's looking more and more like they're a trend, and a troubling one at that: both the numbers of teenage homicide victims and the numbers of felony-level violent crimes commited by teens are up significantly over last year. Thirty three juveniles have been victims of homicide through...

A man was arrested today after a six-hour standoff at a southwest Houston convenience store The average price of a gallon of gas in Houston dropped to $2.02 this week, marking the 11th straight week of price drops Ronald Williams, a 19-year-old cadet at A&M, claims he's been the victim of racial harassment from fellow cadets Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California called on the Justice Department to appeal the decision to overturn ex-Enron Chairman Ken...

A proposal to tighten the city's midnight curfew for juveniles is a step closer to becoming law: Yesterday, the City Council's Public Safety Committee approved the proposed ordinance, meaning it will likely be up for a full council vote next month — with Mayor Bill White's support. The proposal would institute a 10 p.m. weekday and 11 p.m. weekend curfew for kids younger than 17; those 17 and older wouldn't be subject to the law....