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Via KHOU.com: PEARLAND, Texas – Police are searching for suspects after a string of thefts at a Pearland gas station. There have been three car burglaries at the Kroger gas station on FM 518 and Cullen Boulevard within the past week. Two more occurred last month, police said. All of them happened in broad daylight. […]
VIA CNN: (Orangeburg, South Carolina) Ramona Milhouse awoke to the wail of sirens as the morning mist rose off the murky waters of the Edisto River last Monday. Within minutes, police and rescue workers crowded her backyard overlooking the river. Milhouse, 81, looked out the window and saw the top of a sedan in the […]
Lunches were packed, backpacks were filled and parents were scrambling Monday morning as tens of thousands of Houston-area kids headed back to school. But this year, many local districts have made some changes. High schools in Brazosport ISD will start classes earlier, while some schools in Fort Bend ISD will start a little later. Classes […]
Harold Dow, the veteran CBS News correspondent died Saturday. He was 62. His career at CBS spanned almost 40 years. He was a five-time Emmy winner and a correspondent for 48 Hours since the program’s inception. Read more:
Citing a decline in tax revenue and a drop in ridership, the Metro board Thursday announced the transit agency would see a $49 million shortfall during this fiscal year. The overall money crunch had already begun to slow construction on the North and Southeast light-rail lines, which have yet to receive $900 million in funding […]
Haitian election officials have rejected hip-hop singer Wyclef Jean’s bid to run for president of the Caribbean nation. Jean’s name was not on the list of 19 approved candidates released by Haiti’s Provisional Electoral Council on Friday night. “I respectfully accept the committee’s final decision, and I urge my supporters to do the same,” Jean […]
The PS3 is the only games console that has not been hacked, despite being on the market for more than three years. Now a group called PSJailbreak says it will release a USB dongle containing software that allows users to save games to the console’s hard drive. Sony, the maker of the PS3, declined to […]
HOUSTON– Houston’s first female firefighter wants to come out of retirement for what she hopes will be another first: Houston’s first female fire chief. Linda Honeycutt has been working as a chiropractor for the past several years. She retired from the Houston Fire Department in 1997 after working her way up to the rank of […]
Both father and child were injured after the girl climbed over a fence in a private zoo in Luenebach, western Germany. The bear hit the girl on the forehead before her father was able to snatch her away, police said. The 34-year-old Dutch man was also attacked and his leg injured. The girl had climbed […]
HOUSTON – HISD is trying to entice kids to come to class at some of the district’s under-performing schools by offering them a chance to win prizes. The district is holding drawings for sports tickets, gift cards and MP3 players in a bid to get kids to participate in HISD’s new Apollo 20 project. Each […]
CNN’s iReporter caught a water spout fall out of the sky and into the ocean. I was out on my balcony cleaning in the early afternoon. I happened to look at the incoming thunderstorm and I noticed a slight funnel starting to form in the thunderstorms. A few minutes later there was a waterspout present […]
Apple has updated the Apple Store and its iPhone-related FAQ’s web page to reflect a change in the availability of the iPhone 4. The iPhone 4 can no longer be purchased from Apple without an AT&T contract in the U.S. Previously, the iPhone was available from Apple for $599/$699 (16GB and 32GB, respectively) for those […]
