Results tagged “planb”

TxDOT has dropped plans to build 30-foot-high elevated frontage roads along the Katy Freeway between Washington and T.C. Jester, a move apparently driven by concerns from nearby residents about noise, pollution and aesthetic harm the elevated roads could bring. The proposed new feeder roads were part of TxDOT's $40 million proposal to create continuous frontage roads between Washington Avenue and Taylor Street — there are now gaps between Taylor and Studemont, Yale and Patterson...

Here's a new home-invasion technique: Early Wednesday morning, a fake CenterPoint gas man showed up at a house and ended up in a gunfight with the homeowner. It happened in northwest Houston, in the 3300 block of Breckenridge, at about 1 a.m. when a man wearing a CenterPoint shirt knocked on the door of Oscar Mitchell's house and told Mitchell there was a gas leak. Only problem: Neither Mitchell nor any of his neighbors have gas connections. So the suspect activated his Plan B, which involved bringing in an accomplice and forcing their way into the house. The second man shot Mitchell, and Mitchell shot the erstwhile CenterPoint employee.

Some Houstonians say pharmacists have refused to fill their prescriptions for Plan B, the super-strength birth-control pill Four suspects are in custody after an early morning police chase on the North Loop HPD Chief Harold Hurtt said a partnership between HPD and the ATF has made Houston's streets safer — at least a portion of them, anyway City Councilman Mark Goldberg suggested filing suit against owners of high-crime apartment complexes to make them install security...

Suppose you're rolling down River Oaks Boulevard when you hit a traffic jam because one of your neighbors is having a party and the stupid valets managed to jackknife a Maybach. Your first instinct, of course, is to jump the curb and drive down the median (it happens in River Oaks all the time, right?). Well, as of this morning, you can't. City Council last week passed an ordinance banning motorists from driving and parking...