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Good morning, Houston. If you ever stop to think about all the ordinances in effect in the city — admit it, you do — you probably wonder just how much space all those laws would take up if they were written down. Well, now we know: around 5,000 pages. That tidbit comes from the Chronicle's Matt Stiles, who recently reported that the city approved a new three-year contract with the Municipal Code Corp. of...

We've covered a few distinctive thieves in the last few months: the cell phone bandit, the bicycle bandit, the dapper bandit, the bad hair bandit — and now there's a new one: the bossy bandit, who was reportedly quite rude when he knocked over a west Houston bank last week. According to FBI officials, the man walked into the Wells Fargo branch on the Katy Freeway near Highway 6 at around 5 p.m. last Tuesday;...

Houston now has a "cell phone bandit" bank robber on the lose. Well, that's what authorities are calling her at least. A woman casually walked into the Wells Fargo off the North Freeway, wearing a red wig, and talking on her cell phone as she walked up to the teller and handed her a note demanding money. There's no word of a gun being present at the time. The robber continued her conversation as the...

Good morning, Houston. We're sure thieves will think twice before trying to rob 85-year-old Lena Williamson: On Tuesday Williamson's crime-fighting friends had a man arrested after he stole her wallet. It happened after Williamson's car broke down as she was leaving a Woodforest Bank branch at Woodforest and Uvalde; she asked a man for help in fixing the car, but instead of giving her help, he took her wallet and ran off. Fortunately, Williamson...

Regular shelterporners will know about our soft spot for contemporary architecture — more specifically, good contemporary architecture — so it's no wonder we're excited to feature the only Skidmore, Owings & Merrill-designed house in Houston, a 1982 home in Turner Addition. As Stephen Fox says in the Houston Architectural Guide, it's "self-effacing from the street and quite opulent inside." True enough. Richard Keating, the partner in charge of SOM's local office from the mid-1970s...

Good morning, Houston. If you're wondering where your transit dollars are going, check the stolen laptop market: Police are looking for a man who they say stole two computers from Metro's downtown headquarters building in mid-February. Seems the guy walked into the building Feb. 16, followed an employee to an eighth-floor conference room and picked up two laptops — unfortunately, we don't know whether he got away using public transportation, but we can dream....

Remember last weekend's story about Norman Fulton, the man who fell 12 stories down an elevator shaft while trying to escape from a stuck elevator at his Galleria-area condo in December? The death might have been prevented if elevators in the building where Fulton lived had been equipped with door restrictors, which prevent trapped passengers from being able to pry open the doors of a stuck elevator car before trained rescue personnel arrive to help them. And according to KTRK, many Houston buildings don't have door restrictors on their elevators.

The shot from flickr user and Houstonist photo contributor laanba.

So here's a new twist on the old bank robbery story: Monday morning, police shot a suspected robber to death in a Jack in the Box restaurant, where she was apparently trying to get bags to put the stolen cash in. HPD said the woman robbed a Wells Fargo branch in the 2800 block of Hillcroft at about 9:30 a.m., then ran across the street to the Jack in the Box for bags. Police arrived and cornered the woman in the restaurant; when the cops came in, she pulled out what looked like a .45 caliber semiautomatic. Police asked her to drop the gun and she didn't, so they opened fire: One officer fired one shot and the other fired two.

City Council today voted to cut the budget for MediaSource, the company that runs Houston's public access cable channel, by a third New sports authority head Janis Schmees: Houston's doors are open to any sporting events, especially if they're Olympic-inclined A northeast Harris County man who had been evicted from his home shot up his former neighborhood, then shot himself when he became cornered by police A 2-year-old was found today wandering down the middle...

KTRK has a story today about a possible security breach for holders of Visa check cards: Account information might have been stolen, but Visa is letting banks decide what to do about it. The station reports Wells Fargo and Bank of America are issuing new cards to affected customers, and Citibank is letting its affected cardholders know.