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......

Hope we're not killing your buzz, Cheech, but your going to have to continue waiting for Mr. Weed to arrive. The Houston Chronicle reported early yesterday evening that an 18-wheeler load of marijuana was seized near Victoria on Monday. The vehicle was pulled over after highway patrol spotted empty Cheetos bags on the dash a burnt out light on the license plate. A subsequent search of the vehicle revealed a payload of over two tons......

God, we're so sick of Snakes on a Plane that we want to kill anyone and everyone that makes a "something on a something" joke. But then we realized that there was no way we could ever win this fight, and, hell, if you can't beat them, we might as well join them. And with that, you have the theme of this week's Gothamist network post. Austinist makes it easy for us, with Candidate......