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Good morning, Houston. If you happened to be in the Medical Center yesterday afternoon, we're pretty sure you noticed the natural gas leak. Even if you didn't see it, chances are you got caught in the massive traffic snarls it created after Main Street was closed between University and Sunset. Officials with The Methodist Hospital said a construction crew accidentally broke the gas line around noon, and it took most of the day to...

Though he's still taking things slow, ex-Mayor Bob Lanier is at home after spending three days at the Texas Heart Institute at St. Luke's. "He's feeling better. He's in excellent spirits. Got his good humor," Elyse Lanier told the Chronicle. "You know when somebody's still got their good sense of humor going that that's a good sign." The 81-year-old Lanier, you'll remember, collapsed at Ken Lay's memorial service downtown Wednesday, apparently because his implanted defibrillator...

If you think the pages of National Geographic were filled with stories of unusual tribes engaging in unfamiliar customs in foreign lands, well, the current issue won't prove you wrong: This month, the august journal explores the curious customs of the River Oaks crowd. Between the outrageous parties, the multimillion-dollar divorces, the Versailles replicas and the murders, Houstonians have long known how entertaining the local jet set can be, but River Oaks seems to have...

The fun is back: Former Houston first lady Elyse Lanier has been appointed to the port commission to replace Cheryl Thompson-Draper, who resigned over an alleged racial slur she made in Shanghai last year. Harris County Commissioners Court appointed Lanier on a unanimous vote. But it came after County Judge Robert Eckels made a motion to appoint Leroy Hermes, a local architect and chair of the University of Houston board of Regents. That motion failed....