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This afternoon Houstonist was parked on at a patio enjoying a tasty burger when we spied Craig Biggio rolling through the drive through. As he pulled forward, we noticed what looked to be a Texas Rangers "T" stuck on the back window of his SUV.

If you're like Houstonist, then you can't wait until Monday for the Houston Astros, MLB's hottest team, to return to Minute Maid Park. So what are you going to do until then? You're going to pack your bags and truck it on up I-45 to Rangers Ballpark in Arlington to see your beloved Astros this weekend, that's what!

Nolan Ryan, Astros franchise icon and co-owner of two of the team's minor league franchises, today exited his personal services contract a year early to assume the team president position offered by the Texas Rangers. Ryan will oversee the daily operations of the floundering Arlington-based team, working with mercurial owner Tom Hicks.

Texas Rangers are investigating the possibility that a Taser ignited a fire leading to the burning death of a San Angelo man. Given the propensity for Taser use in our fair city, Houstonist thought it best to give you a heads up.

Fire investigators searched three Needville area homes yesterday in connection with the fire that damaged of Needville High School on Monday morning, but no arrests have been made yet. The fire, which destroyed the school's administrative building and science wing, was intentionally set, investigators said earlier this week: Someone entered the building early Monday by throwing a concrete block through a side door, and fires were set in two separate locations. The investigators — from...

KTRK has an odd story this morning: According to the station, an investigation into NASA Inspector General Robert Cobb has found that Cobb quashed the release of a Crime Stoppers report on a ring allegedly taken from the finger of one of the astronauts killed in the space shuttle Columbia disaster. Cobb has been under fire for other findings in the report from the President's Council on Integrity and Efficiency, which has been investigating complaints against him dating back to 2005, but the ring incident is by far one of the strangest.

Good morning, Houston. In these days of strange diseases, air and water pollution, global warming and assorted health warnings, we sometimes begin to wonder if anything's safe anymore. And the answer? No, nothing. Example: Today, nearly a million Easy-Bake Ovens are being recalled because one can get one's fingers or hand stuck inside — and slowly nuked. Of course, Houstonist understands the need for safety, but now we're afraid to make dessert tonight. Life...

Longtime San Diego Padres second baseman Mark Loretta, who spent last year hitting up a storm with the Boston Red Sox, will sign a deal with the Astros today, his agent told ESPN.com. The deal is a one year, 2.5 million dollar contract that could be worth an extra million in incentives if Loretta continues the kind of break-out hitting and defense he showed off last year as part of the league-leading defense of the...

So, admittedly this holiday is secular, and this news is Jewish. And the sport it concerns? Not the usually turkeyday classic. But we thought you would want to know anyway, all about Jews in baseball. (OK, we might be a little starved for off-season news. But the article has our favorite Astro, Brad Ausmus in it! Turns out there's a Jewish MVP award (the Hank and Sandy, after famous Jewish baseballers Greenberg and Koufax). This...

During a campaign stop in Houston yesterday, Gov. Rick Perry announced his plan for fighting crime in Houston: a $10 million effort to coordinate law enforcement efforts among more than 100 agencies in Harris, Fort Bend, Brazoria and Galveston counties. The joint operations and intelligence center will put more police officers on the streets, improve local agencies' technology and better link state and local intelligence. "We will not stand idly by as our innocent citizens...

The search for the Houston-area couple who went missing after being carjacked this week has reached a new level of intensity as more and more people (civillian voulenteers, Houston cops, and Texas Rangers) join the search for Maria Chrisalee (Salee) Aparace, 23,and her 17 year old boyfriend, Huy Ngo. The two were carjacked, but the perpatrators, one of whom has been apprehended, swear they left them unharmed on the side of the road. Nevertheless, neither has been seen. Ngo was scheduled to drive out to California starting on Wednesday, but nobody--neither his Houston nor his LA-area relatives--has heard from him.