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From local Houston headlines, we bring you these weekend news bits...

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Soon, you won’t have to go all the way to Clear Lake or Lake Conroe to see a boathouse. Buffalo Bayou is about to get its first boathouse ever – but don’t start packing up your apartment to move there – this boathouse is for dragon boats. The Houston Endowment has donated $75,000 to assist the Texas Dragon Boat Association to build a boathouse at 501 N. York Street. The facility will house the...

Houstonist appreciates a good car chase, so you can imagine our excitement when we heard about the chase in Conroe early Wednesday morning that went off-road — and into a lake. It started just after 5 a.m., when an officer responding to a call at a Conroe restaurant noticed a "suspicious pickup" parked near a Cingular wireless store along the way. The officer heard an alarm coming from the store and saw two suspects leave the store and jump in the truck; they took off and the officer went after them. The suspects headed north on Longmire Road, reaching speeds of more than 100 mph. When they reached the end of the road, they didn't give up — instead, they crashed through a fence and kept on going:

A large grass fire is burning near Rosharon, but there's no word yet on whether structures are in danger Charles Victor Thompson didn't get the handcuff key that helped him escape from jail from inside, authorities say FEMA will give a $1.5 million grant to help repair the Lake Conroe Dam, which was damaged during Hurricane Rita Police are looking for a man in a U-Haul truck who is suspected of stabbing his former roommate...

A month before his federal trial on conspiracy and fraud charges, former Enron head Ken Lay accused prosecutors of riding a "wave of terror" in a speech today ConocoPhilips, Houston's largest company, will become even larger when it pays $35.6 billion to acquire Burlington Resources; the deal will make Conoco one of the biggest natural gas producers in the country Catcher Brad Ausmus signed a two-year, $7.5-million contract with the Astros A Continental flight from...