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West Texas, specifically Marfa, may be No Country for Old Men, but it certainly seems to be the place for making Academy Award winning films. Speaking of winning, one lucky Houston Fiesta shopper hit it big in the Texas Lotto.

You might not have heard of Olivewood Cemetery, a black graveyard founded in the 1870s on land where freed slaves were once buried. Olivewood is still with us today, at 1300 Court St. (behind the Grocers Supply warehouse at Studemont and Hicks), but it's largely overgrown and forgotten — though it won't be for long if two groups vying to become its caretaker have their way. The question now, though, is which group will win...

Due to a number of problems that have already been reported with early voting, several counties are ready to get rid of the voting records system used in Texas because it is too flawed. The system, TEAM, began operating in January in order to comply with federal regulations on centralizing voting information across the state. Harris County Tax Assessor-Collector Paul Bettencourt said that the new database is "causing statewide voting problems" and that "it's a...

Good morning, Houston. Did you read the Chronicle over breakfast this morning? We're sure the paper is thanking you: According to the Newspaper Association of America, the Chron lost 2 percent of its circulation in the six-month period ending in March. That's really not so bad compared with drops among some of the other biggest papers in the country: 3.5 percent for The Washington Post, 4.2 percent for the LA Times and a whopping...

KPRC has an interesting story today about the spots in downtown Houston where the most parking tickets were issued last year. And in a stunning bit of irony, the place where the most tickets were issued in 2006 (a whopping 6,024) was the Municipal Courts Building, where you go to pay parking tickets.

The Chronicle reports today that the University of Houston is taking the first steps toward starting a medical school, a move that would help address physician shortages in Texas and across the country — but could be an uphill struggle politically.

If you've looked closely at your traffic tickets lately, you might have noticed that a good part of the fines — about half of them — don't have anything to do with what you got the ticket for. Instead, they're surcharges that help fund a variety of things from a juvenile crime program at Prairie View A&M to a court personnel training fund. The Chronicle took a look at these "loser fees," the latest way for governments to generate revenue, yesterday.

Two Prairie View A&M students caused the car crash early Monday morning that killed them and the driver of the other car, Harris County deptuties said yesterday. The wrong-way collision on Highway 290 near Mason Road killed Lamond Foster and Antwan McKinney, from Prairie View.