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Good morning, Houston. As we were sitting around Monday morning contemplating using a witch's extremity to keep warm, we started to wonder exactly how cold it's gotten in the city before — and, thanks to the Internet, we know! According to the National Weather Service, the record low temperature for Houston was 5 degrees Fahrenheit, which we hit on Jan. 23, 1940. Maybe more interesting, though, is the Houston snowfall record: Turns out we haven't had any appreciable snowfall since Dec. 22, 1989, when 1.7 inches fell. That's nothing compared with the blizzard of Feb. 14-15, 1895, when a whopping 20 inches of snow fell in the city. We couldn't find any photos from that storm, but we did turn up a few Bob Bailey pictures from a snowfall on Jan. 30, 1949. Enjoy!

By now, you might have already seen the video floating around the Internet that seems to show a toddler who has been given ecstasy. If not, you can check it out here — just be prepared to see a lot of stupidity. In short, it's a video that first appeared on YouTube (it's since been removed); it shows the child sitting on the floor of a van, eyes rolling, as she's tapped, squeezed and slapped...

A little news in the story of the Baytown woman who was killed late Saturday while her car was being towed from the RV park where she lived: First of all, according to the Chronicle, her name was Cathy Deemer Soileau, not Cathy Regina Deemer as was originally reported. The Harris County Medical Examiner's office figured out her true name using DPS fingerprint records; according to medical examiner's office spokeswoman Jennifer Coston, Deemer was listed...

Seventeen-year-old Michael Shepherd probably figured he had a foolproof plan to keep from going behind bars: As he arrived at the Harris County Jail on Wednesday morning, he decided to escape police by jumping into Buffalo Bayou. Shepherd was on his way to the Harris County Inmate Processing Center at 1201 Commerce; as he was being taken out of a vehicle, "he noticed that the detective he was with was wearing boots and he thought...

The ex-boyfriend of missing Texas A&M student Tynesha Stewart was charged with murder this morning after he led police investigators to a dumpster where he said he put Stewart's body. The ex, 27-year-old Timothy Wayne Shepherd, hasn't made a formal confession and reportedly isn't cooperating with police now, but activist Quanell X said he did confess to him. Stewart disappeared a week ago while she was spending Spring Break at her mother's apartment. She left...

Considering how much some Texans love their guns, it's surprising that we don't hear about accidental self-shootings more often than we do. But really, you can go for months without a single incident, and then bam — or, we suppose, bang — you get a really good one. The incident in question happened yesterday afternoon at Gay Pontiac on the Gulf Freeway in Dickinson. The victim: an off-duty Harris County Sheriff's Office reserve major and...

A woman had to be rescued from her car Thursday morning after she drove into a lake, apparently because she was talking on her cell phone and didn't notice the road had ended. It happened around 9:30 a.m. at Oregold and Sunbright, just off Eldridge Parkway in northwest Harris County; police say the woman, Yu Hee Kim, drove her 2001 Lexus over a curb, across a grassy expanse and into one of the manmade lakes...

The story of a SWAT standoff at a southwest Harris County home yesterday morning was a pretty big deal — a family that was held captive but escaped, two armed suspects, lots of cops — but when police finally entered the house, they found no suspects inside at all. The situation began around 4 a.m. Tuesday, when a neighbor called police to report suspicious activity at the house in the 6400 block of Modesto. One...

The family of Herman Carroll, a mentally ill man who died Friday after Harris County sheriff's deputies used a Taser on him is claiming the officers used excessive force and should be charged with murder. The incident began in east Harris County on Friday afternoon when deputies thought they saw Carroll trying to break into a group of mailboxes near his sister's house. According to KHOU, the deputies chased Carroll into his sister's house and...

From this weekend's bizarre news file comes the story of Jeremy Barfield, the Klein High School baseball star who was drafted by the New York Mets — and was arrested Sunday morning after allegedly pushing his dad down a flight of stairs. It apparently started with an argument between Jeremy and his dad, Jesse Barfield, a former MLB All-Star and Astros coach: "(Jeremy) and his father had some kind of argument that apparently took place...

Police are still looking for clues in the abduction of a woman from a northwest Houston Kroger store late Sunday. The woman was leaving the store at Barker Cypress and FM 529 at about 11 p.m. Sunday when a man approached her and forced her into her car: "The suspect approached her, forced her in her vehicle, drove her from that location and took her to an ATM, made her withdraw some money and then...