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Good morning, Houston. Can Texas gas prices get any higher? Well, sure — they increased for the 15th straight week last week, and now they're edging toward the previous record high. The average price of a gallon of regular unleaded in Texas last week was $2.952, just 1.2 cents short of the previous record, $2.964, which we hit after Hurricane Rita in September 2005. Houston's average price is $2.92, still lower than most major...

If you've recently been dumped by someone who told you, "It's not you," well, take heart: Maybe it's really not you. Maybe it's the city you live in. Forbes has released its list of Best Cities for Singles 2006, and Houston ranks a rather lonely 34th out of 40, a sharp drop from last year's ranking at No. 17. You know what that means? That means Milwaukee, Sacramento and Detroit are all more happenin' places...

Here's some advice: Unless you're attending the Essence Music Festival this weekend, you might want to avoid the Essence Music Festival. That's because more than 200,000 people may come to the three-day festival, being held in Houston for the first time this year. We just don't think Reliant Park-area traffic will be any fun. The EMF started in New Orleans in 1994 to mark the 25th anniversary of Essence magazine. Since then, it's grown into...

Though Houston police officers often write tickets for motorists with expired registrations, inspection stickers and missing license plates, some officers are breaking those laws themselves, a KPRC investigation found.

If you spent any time last week reading Gothamist's coverage of the NYC transit strike and got to wondering whether something similar could ever happen in Houston, Metro Chairman David Wolf had reassurances for you in a letter to the Chronicle on Sunday: