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Finally, Google Street View has come to Houston. Now we can see all those far-flung parts of town we've always wanted to check out — without having to leave Houstonist World Headquarters! Kind of, anyway: Most of the street view streets are on the southwest side, and almost all of 'em are inside the Beltway. No virtual tours of Alief for us, we guess. If you haven't used Google Street View, here's an introductory...

Good morning, Houston. Remember when our fair city was trying to land the summer Olympics? Well, maybe we should be happy we didn't get them, given London's problems with its 2012 Olympics logo. The logo — a brightly colored, highly abstracted version of the numerals "2012" that cost $796,000 to design — drew fire at first for its look, and now there's word that the animated version of the logo is apparently causing epileptic...

Police have arrested seven Houston teens in connection with the aggravated robbery of a Sugar Land doctor earlier this month — all of them students at Elsik High School and most of them claiming to be involved with the Rolling 60s gang, a subset of the Crips. The victim, who lived alone, was attacked April 19 when one of the suspects reportedly knocked on his door asking to be allowed to call his mother because...