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City Council will consider a proposal today to make apartment owners more responsible for dealing with crime on their properties, part of a continuing effort to reduce crime at some of Houston's more dangerous apartment complexes. Under the proposal, owners of apartment buildings with high crime rates would be required to spend $400 for a security consultant and to follow recommendations to make their properties safer.

KHOU checks in today on a problem we've never heard of: a city ordinance that forbids kennels to operate within 100 feet of houses, churches, schools and hospitals. It's a law that doesn't matter to most people, but kennel owners sure feel its effects — if someone comes along and builds a house, church, school or hospital next door to an existing kennel, the kennel is forced to shut down under the current rules.

prostitution would take place. After all, these days it's getting harder to tell the hookers from the non-hookers. That's apparently the concern of some councilmembers: