From local Houston headlines, we bring you these weekend news bits... • The Chevron Houston Marathon is in full swing this morning. Watch out for street closures along the marathon route. • The identity of the Westfield High School senior that was killed during a fight at northwest area park has been released. The victim was Kenneth Wayne Caraway Jr. and he was seventeen years old. • A 60 year old, off duty, constable's......

Good morning, Houston. Yeah, we remember how (relatively) mild the first part of the summer was, and we're grateful for that. But now, after weeks of oppressive heat, we're sick of the weather — so you can imagine how excited we were when we checked out the long-range forecast and saw highs in the low 80s and lows in the low 60s coming in early September. But it might not come as early as......

In Houstonist's adolescence, we didn't have the Internet — we were forced to amuse ourselves by playing Connect Four, watching "The Facts of Life" and finding creative things to do with sticks and mud. But these days, kids can do almost anything on the Internet — including tattling on their classmates, thanks to an anonymous email-based system in place at several local schools. The system is run by AnComm, a company based in Oxford, Miss.,......

Lewis Joseph Spencer II of Houston is wanted for the armed robbery of three west Houston banks this winter Testimony yesterday in the trial of two federal air marshals accused of drug smuggling indicated other marshals may have been involved A man was killed early this morning when he ran his car into a tree in southeast Houston; the man had fled from police who tried to pull him over when they spotted him at......

Another school fight between Katrina evacuees and locals broke out at Westfield High School this morning; one student called it a "riot" HFD workers rescued a city employee who fell into a hole at a southeast Houston sewer lift station this afternoon Lewis P. "Bud" McFadin, a former player and coach for the Texas Longhorns and Houston Oilers, died in a Victoria hospital Monday at age 77 Looking for cheap gas? Head to Yale and......