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Good morning, Houston. Seems like it's getting harder and harder to smuggle a ton of pot around these days — just ask the 37-year-old Houston man who was arrested at a Falfurrias border checkpoint Monday after agents found 2,537 pounds of marijuana in the tractor-trailer he was driving. A border patrol dog sniffed the stash out as agents were determining the man's citizenship: He turned out to be an American citizen, and the pot...

Police in Galveston are looking for a guy who cut some customers' cable lines. No big deal, right? Well, yeah, in this case it is: The suspect used a backhoe to destroy fiber-optic lines, disrupting cable and Internet service to about 23,000 customers in Galveston, Jamaica Beach and Tiki Island on Sunday. Houstonist sees we're not the only ones fed up with Lifetime's parade of crappy Christmas movies. According to The Galveston County Daily News,...

More on the guy who was killed on Highway 290 after falling from the side of a moving 18-wheeler Wednesday night: Turns out he was on the truck because he landed there after jumping from an overpass.

More details today on the multiple-vehicle wreck that shut down the Katy Freeway near Highway 6 yesterday: According to KPRC, it was apparently caused when one of the Harris County Precinct 4 deputy constables escorting a wide load decided to shut down an outside lane of the eastbound freeway, which caused drivers in other lanes to stop, too. One of those cars was a Ford Expedition, which ended up being rear-ended by an 18-wheeler that couldn't stop in time; the crash turned into a chain reaction, the SUV burst into flames and chaos ensued.