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Happy Father's Day! For those of you who have dads, are dads, or know dads, this one's for you, from all of us at the Gothamist network. It was a week of bizarre, embarassing headlines at DCist. The trial of the local administrative law judge who sued his cleaners for $54 million over a pair of missing pants left everyone shaking their heads. Then the capital city was nearly brought to its knees, twice, by...

You there — yeah, you — quit humming the Olympic theme. Houston's dream of luring the 2016 Summer Games is dead, KTRH reports.

A pair of bodies found in a northeast Houston field are believed to be those of Maria Chrisalee Aparece and Huy Ngo, who have been missing since Sunday and are believed to have been the vicims of carjackers The Mexican government is opposing the execution of Angel Maturino Resendiz, the "Railroad Killer," saying mentally ill people shouldn't be subject to the death penalty The average price for a gallon of gas in Houston dropped 4...

We noted earlier this year that Houston's failed bid for the 2012 Olympics didn't throw the city off: Our fair city still has Olympic dreams, this time aiming for 2016. After the news first surfaced, U.S. Olympic Committee officials visited in early May to be wined and dined — but what's happened since then?

So Houstonist noted a couple of weeks ago that Houston is still in the market for a summer Olympics, and now we hear that the U.S. Olympic Committee is in town today to see if we're ready to host the 2016 Games. Mayor Bill White and the nine other officials who will meet with the committee today seem to think Houston has a chance, but the USOC is trying to figure out whether it should pursue a bid for the 2016 Olympics at all.