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Good morning, Houston. In case you didn't hear yesterday, we'll soon see the end of an era in air travel: Beginning Oct. 2, Southwest Airlines will assign passengers a place in line based on the order in which they check in. That means no more of the airline's (in)famous "cattle call" boarding process, which means there's no longer any point in arriving at the airport 16 hours early to get in the A group...

So here's something interesting about the city's full-on smoking ban, which is set to take effect in about a month and a half: According to KTRK, there's still no permitting process in place for cigar bars, one of a handful of types of businesses that are supposed to be exempt from the ban. Mike Shapiro, who owns a cigar bar downtown, is one of the people who's trying to figure out what's going on: "I...

Good morning, Houston. The good thing about having a lovers' spat is that there's almost always someone else out there having one that's far worse — take, for example, the story of a Conroe quarrel that led to a woman ramming her ex-boyfriend's car. Thomas Young-Davis told police that his ex got upset that he had a new girlfriend, so she followed him to a gas station yesterday afternoon, backed into his car twice...

Add another local resident to the list of people bitten by rabid bats. This time, it's a north Harris County man who was bitten Friday while raking leaves in his yard in the Oakwood Village area. KPRC reports the man was picking up leaves when the bat flew out of the leaf pile; he caught it and the bat bit him on the hand. Though he didn't see the bite occur, it broke the skin....

: in this case, it's Bellaire High School, where three bats have been found hanging out in a third-floor hallway. The bats were noticed over the past two weeks, and Bellaire police officer Richard Perez got called to the school when one was captured. "One was actually hanging off the ceiling tile, and there was one behind a doorway entry coming off the stairwell. Another one was behind a garbage can," Perez told KPRC.

In the wake of a Humble teen's death from rabies after a bat bite, bat rabies testing in Harris County has increased 400 percent — but it's not clear whether that's because there are more suspicious bats or because people are starting to notice them. Though local health officials said they don't need to test every bat that's found on the ground, they are interested in bats that have had contact with humans or animals. But they're still getting far more bat-related calls than usual: “We normally pick up about 20 bats a week. We are now testing about 80 bats a week,” Kathy Barton of the Houston dealth department told KHOU.