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If you were anywhere near downtown yesterday afternoon, chances are you noticed the scores of police cars and helicopters in the area — and if you checked out the news to see what was going on, chances are you found out it was a manhunt at the Exxon Mobil parking garage. The whole thing started at about 3 p.m. at UH-Downtown's Daly Street parking lot, where two men took a 1997 white Honda Civic at...

Good morning, Houston. Did you read the Chronicle over breakfast this morning? We're sure the paper is thanking you: According to the Newspaper Association of America, the Chron lost 2 percent of its circulation in the six-month period ending in March. That's really not so bad compared with drops among some of the other biggest papers in the country: 3.5 percent for The Washington Post, 4.2 percent for the LA Times and a whopping...

Good morning, Houston. Are you registered to vote in the May 12 special election? If not, you'd better get on it: Harris County residents must deliver their registration applications to a county tax office by 4:45 p.m. today or have them postmarked before midnight tonight. Remember, if you don't vote, you give up your right to complain. And we will enforce that. >> New organs, a new life: Maria Mendez, a 14-year-old girl, is...

Here's another of those things that'll make us all proud to be Houstonians: According to an environmental research group, three of the five most-polluting U.S. refineries are in the Houston area. We guess our old line to cover for our pollution problem — "That's the smell of money!" — won't quite cut it anymore. According to the Enrivonmental Integrity Project, BP's Texas City refinery, Exxon Mobil's refinery in Baytown and the Lyondell-Citgo plant in Houston...

Good morning, Houston. You know what the problem is around this town? We'll tell you: mismatched news racks. But never fear — City Council is trying to save us. Under an ordinance presented to council this week, newspaper vendors would have to make their racks relatively the same size, keep them clean and in working order and paint them all the same color: forest green (we had some details back in the summer). The reaction?...

City Council voted today to expand the city's "civility ordinance" to more neighborhoods, including Montrose and the Sixth Ward Clara Harris, the woman accused of running over her husband in a hotel parking lot, has filed an appeal and hired a new lawyer Ralph Sampson, a former Houston Rocket, has agreed to plead guilty to mail fraud related to a vehicle purchase; he will spend two months in jail in Atlanta In a campaign stop...

The U.S. Supreme Court said it won't intervene in the attempt to replace Tom DeLay with another candidate on the November ballot Leon Andrade, a 36-year-old migrant worker, was arrested today for the March 12 machete murder of William Huang, a Houston minister and seafood market owner An 8-year-old Liberty County boy is in critical condition after being shot in the head while playing video games at a friend's house; the shooting seems to have...

Participants at Tuesday's hurricane workshop were told about a new state plan under which needy hurricane evacuees would be able to pull over at certain gas stations and fill their tanks for free if they were trying to flee a storm headed for the Texas coast. Jenniffier Hawes of the DPS told people at the conference that drivers would be able to stop at Valero, Shell, Exxon Mobil and Marathon stations to get the free...

A jury sentenced Robert Porteous to 37 years in prison today for shooting an off-duty HPD officer last January A construction crane toppled over in northeast Houston this morning, injuring two construction workers and killing one David Tuck, one of the teens involved in the beating of a Hispanic boy April 23 was involved in another beating of a Hispanic man in 2003; he also gave an interview to KTRK, saying he was high on...

This just in: Kids are getting high using over-the-counter cold medicines! Missouri City police have arrested a teen in the shooting death of a Fort Bend ISD student at a park yesterday Galveston has become the only city in Texas to have wheelchair-accessible beaches now that its public beach parks have been equipped with beach-friendly wheelchairs The Red Cross may have to cut its van service again because of rising gas prices And meanwhile, Bee...