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Good morning, Houston. Noticed a sharp increase in the number of mosquitoes this summer? You will, observers say — and now, Harris County's first confirmed 2007 human case of West Nile virus has been reported. Break out the insect repellent, check up on the West Nile symptoms and do your best not to get stung — although, these days, we guess that's about like saying "stay out of the humidity." >>A break in Gearen...

Anyone who's been to Crystal Beach knows it can be busy — but is it dangerous? We wouldn't have thought so, but we might have to think again after a woman was found raped and murdered on the beach early Sunday morning. The victim was 28-year-old Bridgette Gearen of Orange, who was visiting friends at a beachhouse near the corner of Crystal Beach and Redfish roads. After they spent Saturday at the beach, the group...

Finally, Texas City has something to talk about other than its big dike: A bunch of white squirrels have been spotted in town, and they could be a tourist draw if Texas City plays its cards right. So first of all, you're probably wondering exactly what a white squirrel is, right? Pretty simple, actually: It's a two-toned, light cream-colored variation of the common gray or brown squirrels we see all the time. White squirrels aren't...

The man who had the only winning ticket in Saturday's $75 million lottery drawing returned to the League City convenience store where he bought the ticket to let the staff know — but no one apparently thought to get his name. Not that it really matters: The only people who need to know his name are the ones at the Texas Lottery Commission in Austin, where he'll claim his prize. Still, Houstonist was hoping to...

Houstonist digs dolphins — no, not those — so we were sad to hear about the recent spate of dead dolphins washing up on Galveston County beaches lately. Thirty-five bottlenose dolphins have washed ashore since January, an estimated 26 of them in the last two weeks. "There were a lot of dolphins," a dispatcher for the Galveston County sheriff's office told The Galveston County Daily News. "They were coming in [Friday and Saturday], but the...

We have the feeling Galveston City Manager Steve LeBlanc will be a little more careful when he plans his skit for the Galveston municipal Christmas party next year — it seems a "naughty elf" bit he and a couple of other city officials did at this year's party didn't go over too well. (You'd think the very idea of a "naughty elf" skit would signal trouble ahead, wouldn't you?)

Christmas is coming and petty yard theft is on the rise. Houstonist didn't think yard ornamentation had much street value - but apparently, it does. First, someone made off with the baby Jesus in Santa Fe, and now, in Friendswood, a thief made off with a snowman, reindeer and a 10-foot tall snow globe. Apparently, when one swipes a large decoration, it's best not to have your no-seatbelt-wearing passenger riding around with an inflatable snowman...

Police in Galveston are looking for a guy who cut some customers' cable lines. No big deal, right? Well, yeah, in this case it is: The suspect used a backhoe to destroy fiber-optic lines, disrupting cable and Internet service to about 23,000 customers in Galveston, Jamaica Beach and Tiki Island on Sunday. Houstonist sees we're not the only ones fed up with Lifetime's parade of crappy Christmas movies. According to The Galveston County Daily News,...

While the neon refinery pictured is on display at the Houston Museum of Natural Science and is perfectly safe, emitting no smoke plumes, operating refineries do have their issues, at times. Yesterday afternoon, a Valero Refinery in Texas City began flaring when some steam boilers lost power, causing a Level 1 Alert to be called for the area (Houstonist wonders - what colors are assigned to these alerts? This one sounds "cerulean" to us). The Galveston Daily News had this report on the incident:

Tis the season - to make off with a manger and Baby Jesus? According to the Galveston Daily News, thieves tried to abscond with the homemade manger and baby Jesus from a home in Santa Fe, Texas. The manger was later found in a neighbor's yard, however, baby Jesus is still "at large". The homeowner's have posted a sign in their yard near the nativity to berate the culprit(s). This is the first incident in...

If you're expecting to kick off the Christmas season with a big festival in Galveston, you might want to change your plans — after nearly 10 years of hosting the island's Holiday Lighting Spectacular, hospitality tycoon Tilman Fertitta has canceled this year's events. Instead, Fertitta and city officials have gotten into a rather grinch-like bout of finger pointing:

Houstonist admits it: When we were in school, we pulled some pranks on our teachers. But we never set a teacher's hair on fire — and if we did, we probably wouldn't be here today to tell you about it. That's why we think the kid who set Santa Fe High School teacher Rachel Brauer's hair ablaze should be thanking his lucky stars that Brauer is saying she doesn't want him to go to jail....

When it comes to highway construction, artistic endeavors might not work quite as planned — take, for example, the new Galveston causeway, where an undulating side wall is making some people seasick. No kidding.

Curtis Jetton, the man injured in a Texas City apartment explosion last week, ">may be headed to a mental hospital rather than to jail, the Galveston County Daily News reports. Jetton, 21, was set to appear before a U.S. district magistrate Tuesday to be arraigned on charges of unlawful possession of a firearm ("firearm" in the charge refers to "a destructive device" — here, explosives and detonators), but public defender Thomas Berg asked Magistrate John...

State tourism officials rejoice: Everyone's favorite neighbor-cutter-upper, Robert Durst, is now free to go anywhere in the state, parole officers said.

If you have, say, a million spare dollars lying around, you could be the proud new owner of the Runge House in Galveston. The home, at 12th and Market streets, has been approved by the University of Texas Board of Regents for sale, according to the Galveston County Daily News. Bidding will start at a mere $925,000, cash only.

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