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Good morning, Houston. It's back to the books for many area students this week, although HISD won't begin until August 27. Many local private schools have already started classes, and many will start up again this week, and many colleges will begin class this week as well. Although the temperatures are still pretty summer-y, these next couple of weeks have that end-of-August, book-reports-due feel to them. >> Hurricane + no tax = shopping!: Stories... more ›

Police in Galveston are looking for a guy who cut some customers' cable lines. No big deal, right? Well, yeah, in this case it is: The suspect used a backhoe to destroy fiber-optic lines, disrupting cable and Internet service to about 23,000 customers in Galveston, Jamaica Beach and Tiki Island on Sunday. Houstonist sees we're not the only ones fed up with Lifetime's parade of crappy Christmas movies. According to The Galveston County Daily News,... more ›

At the Port of Houston, a woman was run over and killed by a fork lift while she was taking notes Word on what eccentric millionaire Robert Durst was doing when he violated parole by visiting Galveston: seeing a doctor, a lawyer and stopping by his former home The sponsors of Houston's rival MLK Day parades may join forces to hold a single parade in 2006 An appeals court denied Tom DeLay's lawyers' request to... more ›