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Good morning, Houston. Are you running around on your wife/husband/significant other? Better look out: Valentine's Day is prime time for catching cheaters. The reason? If you have two or three (or six or seven) boy/girlfriends, you're likely going to need to see all of 'em on the 14th — so be careful. Or, y'know, just stick with the monogamy thing. >> The doctor is ... in?: Eric Scheffey, one of the most-sued doctors in...

Robert Durst, the eccentric millionaire who chopped his neighbor into pieces and dumped him in Galveston Bay, was acquitted of the neighbor's murder and later was arrested and imprisoned for other things, will soon be as free as you and me: His parole is set to end Wednesday, and his lawyer said Durst just wants to get out of the public eye. Not that Houstonist can tell the future, but it seems to us that the anonymity ship has already sailed.

So on Thursday, the judge in Robert Durst's 2003 murder trial found the severed front legs and head of a cat in her yard. And who sprang to everyone's mind but Durst, the eccentric millionaire who has a history of chopping bodies up? Life can be so unfair that way.

With all the news about the Enron trial these days, it's easy to overlook other places where the wheels of justice are turning — for example, the trial of Mark Douglas Gilliland, a Houston plastic surgeon accused of seriously injuring two women on a Galleria-area sidewalk in a hit-and-run last year. Testimony in Gilliland's trial began today with prosecutors saying the doctor was "rip-roaring drunk" the night the accident occurred. The story is that Gilliland...