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Last night wasn't a good one for people on foot in Houston: Two people were killed in two separate vehicle-pedestrian accidents, and in both cases, the drivers fled the scenes. The first accident happened around 9:15 p.m. yesterday at Emnora and Peppermill in Spring Branch, where a 16-year-old girl and her friends were crossing the street. A Ford F-150 heading east along Emnora went across oncoming traffic and onto the shoulder, hitting the girl, who...

A bizarre scene that involved a car accident, an SUV atop a Cadillac and gunfire reportedly brought traffic to a standstill along the Southwest Freeway in front of Memorial Hermann Southwest hospital yesterday morning — but thanks to TV news, it's hard to know exactly what happened.

A safety tip from Houstonist: If some duct tape-wielding strangers show up at your door one night, don't let them in: They may be planning to rob your house while you watch. That's what happened to a guy in his townhome at Floyd and Hartman streets, just off Washington Avenue. About 10 p.m. yesterday, he said two middle-aged white men knocked on his door; when he answered, they forced their way into his house, tied him to a chair with duct tape and spent a couple of hours stealing valuables.

As if we needed one, here's another reason to steer clear of fake cops: In Kingwood, two teenage girls say a man posing as a policeman conducted, uh, an unwanted search Sunday night. Tori Wainright and Shelley Genovese, both 17, say they were hanging out in the parking lot of a Kingwood apartment complex when a man approached them and claimed to be a cop looking for stolen bikes. He demanded to see their IDs...