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Continental Airlines said today it will cut about 600 jobs at its call centers, citing a growing trend for customers to book tickets online, according to several published reports.
NEW YORK — Tracy McGrady’s dazzling Knicks debut couldn’t stop the surging Oklahoma City Thunder, who got 36 points from Kevin Durant and beat New York 121-118 in overtime Saturday night for their eighth straight victory. Durant made the go-ahead jumper with 16 seconds left in his 27th consecutive game with at least 25 points, […]
(CNN) — There was no profanity, no hate. Just the words, “I love my friends Abby and Faith. Lex was here 2/1/10 :)” scrawled on the classroom desk with a green marker. Alexa Gonzalez, an outgoing 12-year-old who likes to dance and draw, expected a lecture or maybe detention for her doodles earlier this month. […]
Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) — Tiger Woods’ comments Friday may become the most scrutinized apology in history, fodder for dinner tables and Internet chat rooms alike: Was he genuine? Was it a PR stunt? Can he do anything to restore people’s faith in him? The biggest knock on golf’s biggest star is that it took him […]
Eliminating fares on Metro buses and trains, as Mayor Annise Parker recently suggested, would cripple the agency’s light-rail expansion plans and force reductions in service to people who depend on public transportation, board chairman David Wolff said on Thursday. At the close of the monthly board meeting, Wolff read aloud his Feb. 11 letter to […]
VIA KHOU.com: Lowest Gas Prices in Houston! Price Station Address City Time 2.22 Shell 511B Lockwood Dr & Navigation Blvd Houston – Central Feb 17,6:50 PM 511B Lockwood Dr & Navigation Blvd Houston – Central Feb 17, 6:50 PM 2.26 Shell 511B Lockwood Dr & Navigation Blvd Houston – Central Feb 18,12:46 PM 511B Lockwood […]
Ever since red light cameras went up in 2006, they’ve been challenged. Now the violation notices are being challenged too.. Harris County Judge Ed Emmett didn’t know anything about it until we started asking questions. Â Ever since red light cameras went up in 2006, they’ve been challenged. Now the violation notices are being challenged […]
HOUSTON (KTRK) — We have breaking sports news this morning. The Rockets are reportedly parting ways with Tracy McGrady and two other players. Early this morning, ESPN reports the Rockets reached a deal with the Sacramento Kings. The deal will send Tracy McGrady, Carl Landry, Joey Eorsey, and a chuck of cash to the Kings. […]
// // PEARLAND, Texas—Two people were killed in a six-vehicle crash in Pearland Wednesday morning. It happened in the 18700 block of State Highway 35 near Hastings around 6:30 a.m. Lt. Onesimo Lopez of the Pearland Police Department said the crash occurred when a late-model Chevy pickup drifted into oncoming northbound traffic. The truck collided […]
Soles4Souls and New Balance Shoes have joined forces to bring shoes to victims of the devastating earthquake in Haiti.
TORONTO – For tech-savvy singles who are unlucky in love, shy or just looking for a new way to meet people, Flitter could be the answer. Hundreds of singles attended the first Flitter parties across Canada last week in the latest dating game which is a play on words of the microblogging site Twitter and […]
A huge crime wave blamed on thousands of Katrina evacuees in Houston and other Southwest cities never happened, say criminologists who warned public officials and the media to be careful in attributing crime to the former New Orleans residents.
