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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. more ›

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. more ›

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: more ›

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