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The Astros search for a replacement for Tim Purpura may be coming to an end. The baseball world is atwitter with reports that the new GM will be selected as soon as today. After interviewing eleven different candidates, owner Drayton McLane and team president/acting GM Tal Smith (pictured, on left) have narrowed the field and will be making an announcement some time this week. The leading candidate right now is Phillies assistant GM Ruben Amaro,...

Houstonist is a big fan of parking for free, no matter what. Even if that means we have to walk three blocks or save our downtown business for after 6 or on the weekends. Apparently, that decision is saving us more than we thought. Fake parking attendants, according to a KHOU report, have been costing drivers downtown lots of time and money.

We've all heard the stories about how easy it is for teens to get in trouble with sexual predators on MySpace, right? And the question in Houstonist's mind had always been whose fault these incidents are — the kids on MySpace who meet the creepy low-lifes, the creepy low-lifes who prey on MySpacers, the parents who don't monitor what their kids are doing or MySpace itself? Now, some families — one from Houston — are trying to clarify the question of responsibility by suing MySpace, claiming the online service didn't do enough to protect their underage daughters who were sexually abused by adults they met online.

Now, seriously — is there anything better for a midweek pick-me-up than a story about flying cockroaches? We submit to you that there is not, and so we bring you information about the Asian cockroach (Blattella asahinai), which has made its way to Harris County. The Asian cockroach was first identified in Florida in 1986, and since then it's spread throughout the southeast: central and south Florida, south Georgia, southern Alabama, parts of South Carolina...

You might have seen the news recently about how police cracked the case of a 2003 quadruple murder case in Clear Lake. The arrest of suspect Christine Paolilla was a huge break in the three-year-old case, and police say it wouldn't have been possible without two telephoned tips — one on July 8 from someone who knew Paolilla, and another in July 2005 concerning the other suspect, Christopher Snider. "[Getting the tips] was the key...

You may have heard about the recent rash of executions that have taken place in Texas: Lamont Reese (June 20), Angel Maturino Resendiz (June 27), and Derrick O'Brien (July 11). O'Brien marked the fourteenth execution in Texas so far this year, which is getting near the 2005 grand total of nineteen. Rankings for all states can be found here - Texas is way ahead of the pack at fourteen, where Ohio and South Carolina are...

A northeast Houston Kroger and nearby businesses were evacuated after a man robbed a bank inside the store using a fake bomb — and, in Arlington, a man dressed as Santa robbed a bank In southwest Houston, a robber stole a family's Christmas presents from their apartment while the family was away An ex-Texas City resident was arrested in South Carolina after someone moved into his former apartment and found a videotape of him molesting...