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23-year-old Juan Solis was sentenced to 80 years in prison today for raping a Galleria employee in a parking garage in 2003 Tom Nixon, the HPD officer who criticized the department's chase policy earlier this year, has been fired; he said he plans to appeal the decision The bicyclist struck by a Metro bus yesterday morning is in fair condition at Ben Taub with head injuries and a fractured pelvic bone and rib Guardian Angels...

Cindy Sheehan led a protest in Houston yesterday targeting Barbara Bush, who protesters hoped to convince to tell her son to stop the war in Iraq [video] A woman has been arrested for selling drugs at a South Houston bakery; her boyfriend, the bakery's owner, was arrested in 2004 for doing the same thing Closing arguments resumed today in the trial of Max Soffar, who spent 25 years on death row but had his conviction...

The Guardian Angels' arrival in Houston yesterday couldn't have been timed better: Just a few minutes before the community watch organization got to Sharpstown Mall, a group of teens got into a brawl outside a mall entrance, resulting in one teen getting pummeled on the sidewalk and shots being fired into the air. It's just the kind of thing that led Sharpstown resident Jeff Schmidt to ask the Angels to help clean his neighborhood up.

The Guardian Angels, the red-bereted citizen patrol formed in 1979 to make the Bronx safer for residents, may be coming to Houston to patrol Sharpstown, the Chronicle reports. Sharpstown resident Jeff Schmidt called the Angels because he was tired of crime in his neighborhood: