>> City offers $15.5M for possible stadium site: The Chronicle reports that the city has said it'll pay more than $15.5 million for five downtown blocks that could become the site of a stadium for the Dynamo. The parcel is bounded by Texas and Walker on the north and south and Dowling and Hutchins on the east and west; it's just east of the Lofts at the Ballpark and immediately south of a vast......

• 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......

It's hard to pass up a news item headlined "Houston police officer survives being shot in the face," isn't it? We guess that's what KTRK was hoping when it put that headline on a piece about a Houston police officer who was shot while questioning some guys who were jaywalking Wednesday night — but it turns out the situation wasn't quite as dramatic as you might think: It happened at Renwick near Bellaire. We understand......

A bizarre scene that involved a car accident, an SUV atop a Cadillac and gunfire reportedly brought traffic to a standstill along the Southwest Freeway in front of Memorial Hermann Southwest hospital yesterday morning — but thanks to TV news, it's hard to know exactly what happened. According to KPRC, it started around 11 a.m. yesterday when two vehicles — a Ford Expedition and a Ford F-150 pickup — were chasing each other along the......

A state district court judge ruled today that Angel Maturino Resendiz, the "Railcar Killer," is mentally competent and should be executed next week as scheduled Police took a Metro bus passenger into custody this morning after the man threatened to stab the bus driver when the two had a dispute over the fare About 2,000 households in Crosby were ordered to shelter in place yesterday evening during a plastic resin fire at a nearby plant......

So here's a new twist on the old bank robbery story: Monday morning, police shot a suspected robber to death in a Jack in the Box restaurant, where she was apparently trying to get bags to put the stolen cash in. HPD said the woman robbed a Wells Fargo branch in the 2800 block of Hillcroft at about 9:30 a.m., then ran across the street to the Jack in the Box for bags. Police arrived......