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Good morning, Houston. Did you watch last night's Emmy Awards show with bated breath? Yeah, neither did we. If you want to check out the winners, the Chron has a nice cheat sheet that will bring you up to speed for today's water cooler conversation. We did get to wondering where the name "Emmy" came from though, and turned to Wikipedia to ease our minds. Turns out it's a feminization of the word "immy,"...

If there's one thing we love, it's an election. And the city has been obliging lately. Melissa Noriega and Roy Morales, the two candidates left standing after last month's special election to fill a vacant at-large city council seat, traded remarks on immigration as early voting began yesterday. Noriega, the clear favorite after garnering 47% of the vote in May, accused Morales of using "fear as a tactic to try to get people worked up."...

The Chronicle's update on fund-raising among candidates for Shelley Sekula-Gibbs' former at-large City Council seat probably has Melissa Noriega feeling pretty good: Noriega, it seems, has raised about four times as much as her two closest competitors in the race. Noriega — the wife of state Rep. Rick Noriega (D-Houston), has raised more than $100,000 in total and still has more than half that in the bank headed toward the May 12 election. That's 10...

Remember Tom Nixon, the HPD officer who was reassigned and later fired after publicly criticizing the department's chase policy? Two bits of news about him this week: First, City Council is set to decide whether to spend $35,000 more fighting his suit, which alleges the city abridged his First Amendment rights by firing him; and second, Nixon is running for a seat on City Council. (Yeah, Nixon's candidacy in the special election for Shelley Sekula-Gibbs'...

23-year-old Juan Solis was sentenced to 80 years in prison today for raping a Galleria employee in a parking garage in 2003 Tom Nixon, the HPD officer who criticized the department's chase policy earlier this year, has been fired; he said he plans to appeal the decision The bicyclist struck by a Metro bus yesterday morning is in fair condition at Ben Taub with head injuries and a fractured pelvic bone and rib Guardian Angels...

HPD investigators say 11 Katrina evacuees have been linked to a string of violent crimes in Houston; eight are in custody, but police are still looking for the other three A wrecker driver who crashed into a car on the East Loop on Wednesday, killing its driver, may not have been headed to a Safe Clear call, investigators say Houston-based Halliburton said it will spin off a minority stake in controversial subsidiary KBR, which has...