• A Fort Bend County student has been accused of bringing a 9mm gun to school. The student was immediately expelled. • Two teens have been arrested after carjacking a family from their Cadillac Escalade at First Colony Mall. • Authorities are looking for a man claiming to be a police officer who attacked a 15 year old girl at a park in the 6400 block of Rustling Elms Drive back on November 18th.......

A new study coming out of the Baylor College of Medicine suggests that the Texas Public School Nutrition Policy has led to real improvements in the way that the state’s middle school students eat. The findings, published in this month’s American Journal of Public Health, analyzed lunch records in south Texas middle schools before and after both district- and state-wide changes took place. The research team found that school lunches after the 2004 policy was......

::Rice University Scientia Lecture: "Aspects of Memory":: If you are anything like us, the extent of your long term memory is directly dependent on well vs. premium liquor from yesterday's happy hour. Hell, we are still trying to remember where we parked our car this morning so that we can go to lunch. Rice University Scientia, an Institute for the History of Science and Culture, presents the colloquium "Aspects of Memory" by guest lecturer Rachelle......

Good morning, Houston. We're sure you're as excited as we are to get right into this year's news, so without further ado ... >> GOP pick for Harris DA expected this evening: Harris County Republican leaders said they expect to have a candidate for district attorney by 6 p.m. today, the deadline for filing candidacy papers. The move comes in the wake of a scandal centering on DA Chuck Rosenthal, who was asked to......

Well, this is unpleasant: A Nacogdoches man remains in critical condition after being infected with a flesh-eating bacteria during a swim off the Galveston County coast. The man, 58-year-old Steve Gilpatrick, is diabetic and had an ulcer on his leg when he went swimming during a fishing trip at Crystal Beach on July 8. Three days later, his leg became infected and he began running a high fever; it turns out he had been infected......

Good morning, Houston. The Internet has become such a part of our lives that it's hard sometimes to step back and see just how pervasive it really is — but the folks at Domain Name Wire came up with an interesting way to do that: They counted the number of URLs advertised along Highway 71 and I-10 between Austin and Houston. The grand total? More than 68, including the whopper qualityconcreteandswimmingpools.com (which doesn't seem......

The Chronicle reports today that the University of Houston is taking the first steps toward starting a medical school, a move that would help address physician shortages in Texas and across the country — but could be an uphill struggle politically. The proposal for a UH medical school, drawn up by Kentucky medical school planners DJW Associates, calls for a starting class of 30 students with 15 basic sciences faculty members and six full-time clinical......

The Internet has changed everything: Now, your friends and family can receive e-mails from you even after you die. We can't decide whether that's really interesting or really disturbing — or, you know, both. The service is provided by David Eagleman, an assistant professor of neuroscience and psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine. It's called Deathswitch, and the Chronicle tells us all about it today. Here's the skinny: While you're alive, you subscribe to Deathswitch......

The 1929 Robinson Public Warehouse (Nimmons, Carr, and Wright, architects), at the corner of Allen Parkway and Montrose Blvd, is on its way to the building afterlife. It was originally a Sears, Roebuck, and Co. store, and was also the first (and temporary) home of Baylor College of Medicine in the mid to late forties. Demolition is about to begin, and we've been watching for the wrecking ball which is due to make an......

If we made a list of movies that lend themselves to psychoanalyis, Stanley Kubrick's Lolita would be on it. Fortunately, though, we don't have to make that list — the Museum of Fine Arts already has. And you can catch Lolita this evening as part of the MFAH's series "Close-ups: Psychoanalysts Look at Film." Lolita, of course, is the screen adaptation of Nabokov's story of a middle-aged professor's lust for a teen "nymphet," starring......

Houstonist doesn’t want you to miss your chance to tour Houston’s third Pink Ribbon House, a show house benefiting breast cancer research at Baylor College of Medicine. It is a part of “Build for a Cure 2006”. The house, located at 410 Pine Shadows in the Tanglewood area, is opening for tours tomorrow, and will be open Wednesday through Sunday until May 28. The $15 tickets can be purchased at the door. And what exactly......

Local health officials are keeping an eye on the outbreak of mumps that's hit six Midwestern states. It began in Iowa and spread to Illinois, Kansas, Nebraska, Minnesota and Oklahoma, affecting more than 1,150 people — and the CDC says it expects the mumps to spread. About two dozen cases of mumps are reported in Texas every year; so far this year, nine cases have been reported. None of them has been linked to the......

As it turns out, you can't really buy everything on eBay: The online auction site has pulled an ad that originated in Houston offering the friendship of a 16-year-old girl. It seems one of the teen's parents placed the ad, which included a detailed description of the girl and the chance to be friends with her on MySpace — uh, is that really such a big deal? You can be freakin' Coldplay's friend on MySpace,......

Forbes has released its 2006 list of the world's richest people, and alas, Houstonist didn't make it. Again. But one more Houstonian did, bringing the total number of locals on the list to seven. The newest local addition is Tracy Krohn, founder and president of W&T Offshore, who is worth $1.5 billion. That means he could spent about $40,000 a day for the next 100 years — and with $40 million left over, he still......

We were happy to hear yesterday that $100 million was being donated to the Baylor College of Medicine – a new record for the Texas Medical Center. The gift will be used on research and recruiting cancer specialists. Who’s behind the donation? Dan L. Duncan of Houston. Still don’t know who he is? Many people don’t. He’s actually the wealthiest man in Houston, worth about $6 billion. Duncan is a self-made billionaire, building his fortunes......

Christopher McKinney, a former state trooper, was sentenced to two years in prison today for stealing $4,900 from a motorist he stopped in 2004 Police have arrested 24-year-old Matthew White in connection with a series of arsons in the Kingwood area Dan Duncan, energy magnate and the city's wealthiest man, is giving the Baylor College of Medicine $100 million to help develop a comprehensive cancer center Police say a love triangle may have been behind......

State education officials and parents want middle schoolers to continue taking arts classes — but it looks like the kids may be too fat to do so. Under a new state law, middle school students are required to have a certain amount of PE, but that's left the State Board of Education wondering how to balance that requirement with already struggling art and music classes. About 35 percent of schoolchildren in Texas were considered obese......