From local Houston headlines, we bring you these weekend news bits... • A 54 year old man was killed on I-10 near Baca last night after he ran across the interstate to help three stranded dogs in the median. The motorcycle driver that hit him suffered a broken arm. • Noted television news man and author, Ray Miller has passed away. He was 89. • A man was killed last night around 10pm when......

From local Houston headlines, we bring you these weekend news bits... • A Houston couple went on a two month robbery spree, "to pay the rent." The couple were caught when one of their victims reported their license plate to police. • George Jeffrey Carlson, 52, of Spring, killed himself at the Canadian border near Maine after refusing to stop at a Canadian customs facility. Royal Canadian Mounted Police said that the victim shot......

The sentence is in for the cell phone using driver who struck and killed a deputy sheriff. Some folks think it is too light. What do you think? "How should we 'fix' illegal immigration?" "Huh. Let's get them to deport themselves." "Yeah...that's the ticket." Another crane accident has occured, another worker is dead Video from the Governor's Mansion yields a glimpse of a suspect in the arson case Folks say there aren't enough trees in......

From local Houston headlines, we bring you these weekend news bits... • A man in Brazoria County drove his vehicle into a group of people standing at the edge of driveway. One man was killed and the driver now faces homicide charges. • A 17 year old boy bludgeoned a pregnant woman to death three weeks ago with a baseball bat after a minor fender bender in a local park has been captured and......

From local Houston headlines, we bring you these weekend news bits... • The Feds are in town and they are investigating the Harris County jail. Did you know over 100 inmates have died in the Harris County jail between 2001-2006? • 103 year old musician, Huey Long, is no longer depressed after his prized guitar has been returned to him. • Quanell X is questioning all the attention given to two kidnappings in River......

From local Houston headlines, we bring you these weekend news bits... • A man crashed his car into a Sugar Land home on Lynnwood at Oak Wood early Saturday morning. No one in the home was injured and the driver is in the hospital in stable condition. • The Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo is 76 years old. • An 84 year old Puerto Rican man with dementia is missing after walking out of......

From local Houston headlines, we bring you these weekend news bits...

From local Houston headlines, we bring you these weekend news bits... • An elderly woman was rescued by firefighters during a two-alarm fire at her southwest Houston condo Saturday morning in the 12000 block of South Dairy Ashford. • A 17 year old girl became trapped under a minivan after the vehicle crashed through the walls of her room in a southeast Houston apartment complex. The girl survived the incident virtually unscathed. • "The......

From local Houston headlines, we bring you these weekend news bits... • HISD has canceled all area Saturday school events except for a basketball playoff game at 1pm between Westbury and Lamar High School. • METRO has announced that a train operator is at fault in the most recent accident involving Metro Rail and a cyclist. The accident occurred last week and left the cyclist hospitalized. • Part of US-59 near West Bellfort was......

• A man who tried to run over his girlfriend after a Valentine's Day argument was killed on I-45 near Richey Road after he was struck by a vehicle while running away from sheriff's deputies. • Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top, married Patricia Calmers and Paul Burgess in the cafe of IKEA on I-10 after the couple won a contest sponsored by the Swedish furniture company. Billy Gibbons is an ordained minister of the......

• A fatal accident occurred this morning on Chimney Rock near Highway 90A. As of 7:30 A.M. the area around the accident has been cordoned off and traffic was being diverted. No further details are available as an investigation is under way. • Health officials are calling this latest round of the flu a "moderately severe epidemic." Flu cases are up 31% over last year and three children have already died as a result.......

• A cold front that will be preceded by a storm system is expected to drop temperatures this afternoon. Don't forget your coats and umbrellas. • Two suspected Conroe drug dealers were shot during a sting involving the Montgomery County sheriff's office. The sting occurred in a busy shopping center parking lot and an officer was nearly hit by the suspects vehicle. • Police in the Rice Village area are on the lookout for......

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From local Houston headlines, we bring you these weekend news bits... • A bicyclist is in serious condition after being struck and dragged by MetroRail in the Medical Center. The bicyclist was wearing headphones and riiding between platforms. The incident occurred Friday afternoon around 4:45pm. • A car crashed into the State Grille on Alabama after losing control of the vehicle and jumping a curb. The driver had to be cut out of his......

• A 26 year old Friendswood private teacher has been accused of having an improper relationship with a student. • A drunk driver plowed into a Harris County Precinct 3 deputy vehicle Thursday night on FM 1960 East at East Lake Houston Parkway. The deputy was taken to the hospital and is in serious condition. • Tierra Adams, a 25 year old pregnant woman, has been missing for over a week after her boyfriend......

From local Houston headlines, we bring you these weekend news bits... • A Fort Bend Co. teenager is dead after an argument led to his fatal shooting. The incident occurred on Orchard Mist near Westmoor. • An Alvin teenager is dead after portions of a carnival ride that was being dismantled fell on her. • A wrong way driver on West Bellfort near Dairy Ashford crashed into a fence after swerving into the wrong......

From local Houston headlines, we bring you these weekend news bits... • The suspected father of a murdered three month old baby boy who was found Tuesday in Galveston has surrendered to authorities in Philadelphia. • 8,000 cases of meat from HISD school cafeterias are being pulled after hidden camera video released by the Humane Society shows ill cows being tortured before slaughter. • A Union Pacific train en route to Indiana derailed near......

Houstonist is at it again, we are rebelling hard against our very own New Year's Resolution to be healthier and perhaps a touch on the thinner side. We are going to turn into a cartoon tire spokesperson, but, hey, the sooner we hammer out a top ten list of burgers, the sooner we can, oh hell - move on to the fried chicken and chicken fried steaks. Who are we really kidding? We just have......

From local Houston headlines, we bring you these weekend news bits... • Say goodbye to the trees on Kirby. Out of approximately 175 trees along Kirby only eight will be relocated, the rest will meet their demise in the wood chipper. • In other tree news, 500 volunteers planted close to 3000 trees along North Shepherd. • A 21 year old man is dead and a veteran Precinct 6 officer is fighting for his......

From local Houston headlines, we bring you these weekend news bits... • Two local developers are accused of bribing a former director of the city's Building Services Department. • A woman was shot in the face during a carjacking that occurred in Southwest Houston on Bellaire Blvd. near Larkwood around 8pm Friday. • An erratically driving man crashed his car into a home in south Houston and died after the car burst into flames......

• Whooping Cough is at its highest levels since the 1950's and local hospitals are inoculating parents and family members in an attempt to help stop the spread of this infection. • Three thieves stole $16,000 during a northwest Houston robbery at a Food Fair grocery store. • A man and a woman are both dead after an apparent murder-suicide last night. The incident occurred on Chewe Street near Hershe Street around 12:30 a.m.......

• Is Houston the only city in the U.S. with two competing Martin Luther King Day parades? The downtown parade starts at 10 a.m. while the second parade on Allen Parkway parade starts at noon. • A Houston couple want a state representative tested for STD's after they claim the woman was forcibly kissed by the legislator. • Three people were killed in three separate accidents over the weekend. • A prison inmate of......

From local Houston headlines, we bring you these weekend news bits... • A small plane made an emergency landing on a street near Lake Conroe. The plane landed safely, no one was injured and now it's up to the FAA to decide how to move the plane. • Several people were robbed while standing in line to by sneakers (did we just type that?) at Greenspoint Mall. The thief fled in a black Chevy......

From local Houston headlines, we bring you these weekend news bits... • An experimental pediatric heart pump is being tested in 12 hospital clinical trials including Texas Children's Hospital. • The state Democratic primary will be missing one name on the upcoming ballot. That name will be Dennis Kucinich. • A Harris County Sheriff's office captain has been accused of sexual harassment and has been relieved of duty Friday. • Ten years after annexation,......

• Over a dozen people have been robbed at gunpoint on and near Lower Westheimer. HPD says that the robbers approach victims with a gun, rob them of cash, cell phones, wallets and purses and a then a black truck pulls up and the robber and accomplice speed away. • HPD has a new toy. It's a 12 ton armored truck dubbed, "The Bear" and it will be used by SWAT and can transport......

• The woman who left her six children home alone while she ran off to Africa to meet a man she met on the internet is headed back home. Shanell Monique Mosley has been charged with child endangerment and abandonment and authorities will be waiting for her when she arrives. • A man who backed up into an HPD car during a car chase last night after a traffic stop got away by fleeing......

• A weather system rolled through Houston last night reeking havoc on this morning's commute. • The body of Baby Grace, Riley Ann Sawyers, will be laid to rest today in Eastlake, Ohio. • A pedestrian who ran in front of a car being driven by a Harris County deputy constable was hit and killed Tuesday night. • A truck and the garage it was parked in caught fire and burned on Houston's south......

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......

From local Houston headlines, we bring you these weekend news bits... • An HPD rookie officer was busted for selling 50 pounds of pot in an undercover sting. If convicted the officer could face two to twenty years in prison. • A frustrated Mom left her 10 year old daughter and 8 year old son at a Cy-Fair fire station Friday afternoon. According to fire station officials, the kids were told by the mother......