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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...

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...

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.