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Good morning, Houston. You might not remember it, but many local beaches used to be much wider than they are now — and soon, they'll be that wide again, thanks to a multimillion-dollar restoration project that's going to be announced today. The project will widen three miles of eroded beaches west of the Seawall in Galveston, Sylvan Beach in La Porte and other beaches in Surfside; the goal is to combat the erosion that's...

Good morning, Houston. So what was the last bonus gift you got at work? A fruit basket? Maybe an engraved Space Pen? Well, if you worked for La Porte-based Texas Stress, you might have ended up with a Harley: Gary and Joni Hagar, the owners of the company, rewarded each of their top 10 employees with $21,000 and told them to pick out their own hogs. "I've never heard of a boss doing this...

Good morning, Houston. Let's be frank with each other, shall we: Haven't you ever thought of yourself as a superhero? Yeah, we thought so. You'll be happy to know that it's your lucky day — or weekend, whatever — because the Sci Fi channel's Who Wants to Be a Superhero? is casting. Candidates have to have their identities set, show up in costume and explain "the true nature of their superhuman abilities and invoking the...

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott filed suit yesterday against Lyondell Chemical Co. and two of its subsidiaries, accusing the companies of releasing harmful pollutants into the air and not doing anything to try to stop the problem. The suit says Lyondell, Equistar Chemicals and Millennium Petrochemicals released volatile organic compounds, nitrogen oxides and carbon monoxide from plants in La Porte, Channelview and Chocolate Bayou. "Texas will vigorously enforce environmental laws that protect the health...

Maybe we're just getting on in years and remembering the past better than it actually was, but it seems that when Houstonist was in elementary, middle and high school, we had a decent summer vacation — beginning at the end of May, say, and ending sometime in late August. But lately it seems like schools have been letting kids out later and bringing them back earlier, leaving an approximately 10-day summer vacation sometime in mid-July....

If you've ever thought that the food you've had from Taco Bell tasted a little weird, you might not have been wrong: One La Porte family is suing the chain, claiming they got sick after eating at a Deer Park Taco Bell location. The cause of the illness, apparently, was food that had been contaminated with cleaning solutions.

Harris County DA investigators searched TSU President Priscilla Slade's house today, looking for documents related to the home's landscaping and security system An Aldine high school teacher has resigned in the midst of allegations that she had an inappropriate relationship with a 16-year-old male student Gas prices in Texas were back up this week, closing at an average of $2.85 a gallon, up 3 cents over last week's average A traffic stop in Slidell, La.,...

No cause has been announced yet for a fire at a Deer Park chemical plant yesterday that shut down part of Highway 225 and injured one worker. The fire broke out in an aluminum handling warehouse at Akzo Nobel Chemicals on Battleground Road at about 3:25 p.m. and was followed by a series of small explosions. The employee, who suffered second- and third-degree chemical burns, was taken to the UTMB in Galveston, where he's in...