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Good morning, Houston. Have you ever been lounging around on the couch, curious about how the state of Texas spends its money but frustrated because you can't hop online and find out? Well, cheer up: Now you can, thanks to a new feature on the state comptroller's website. The database allows users to search the $74.5 billion in expenditures from fiscal 2007 by agency, payee and spending category. For folks with the ability to...

Sometimes nothing satisfies a hunger pain like a big helping of fried chicken and fixin’s. But not just any fried chicken. We wanted the kind that didn’t come off a conveyor belt; chicken that’s been soaked, seasoned and fried with love. Perhaps a place where Rockets players can be found after practice. Frenchy’s more than fit the bill. The original store on Scott Street almost always has a line of hungry patrons waiting to place...

A Katy middle school teacher is scheduled to appear in court today after she was found her engaging in a little extracurricular activity with a student in a parked car early Saturday morning. It happened near Greenhouse and West Little York in west Harris County, where sheriff's deputies got a call about a suspicious vehicle parked alongside the road. When a deputy arrived at about 2 a.m., he found 28-year-old McDonald Junior High math teacher...

Two people died early this morning when an SUV going the wrong way on the North Freeway hit a box truck head-on. The accident happened around 3:15 a.m. near I-45 and Little York; according to police, a Ford Explorer was heading south in the northbound lanes of the freeway when it struck a small Isuzu truck at high speed. "The speedometer of the Ford Explorer was stuck at 75 when we got there," HPD accident...

It was kind of a hair-raising night on the North Freeway: First, a pedestrian trying to cross the freeway was hit and killed, and then several hours later a driver ran into an HPD patrol car blocking the roadway after a truck lost its load of nails. The pedestrian accident happened at around 8:45 p.m. near the northbound North Freeway and Parker, where police say a man in dark clothes was trying to cross both...

We're thinking we should start a Houstonist driving school sometime. It's not that we're the best drivers on the road, but we know we must be better than people like the driver who decided to nap on the North Freeway last night, causing a five-vehicle pile-up. It happened on the North Freeway near Little York, where police say a sleepy driver decided to stop his car and, according to KTRK, sleep in a lane of...

SWAT team: "I just say the Paint SWAT Team because when we get it, it’s all about just taking it down. There’s no options," Tony Emmanuel with HPD Neighborhood Protection told Channel 11. (Check Emmanuel out in KHOU's video report. We think he has a career ahead as a graffiti-fighting action hero.)

Highway 290 is closed in both directions at West Little York because an unidentified man jumped off the West Little York overpass during the lunch hour today and was hit and killed by an 18-wheeler on the freeway, police said.