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......

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......

The Chronicle's Matt Stiles brings us the locations of the city's 10 newest red-light cameras, a couple of which we had already noticed — while lawfully stopping at red lights, we might add. And here they are: Northbound Wayside at Gulf Freeway Northbound Woodridge at Gulf Freeway Northbound West Bellfort at Southwest Freeway Northbound Fairbanks N. Houston at Northwest Freeway Northbound West Sam Houston Parkway South at Westpark Eastbound FM 2351 at Gulf Freeway Eastbound......

You may remember when Metro OK'd a $20 million surveillance system covering all its park and ride facilities and one transit center, an attempt to fight crime at the locations. But, you may ask yourself, how much crime actually happens at park and rides? Well, thanks to KTRK's Crime Tracker, we have an idea. According to Metro, 119 crimes have occurred at park and rides so far this year; though most of the crimes weren't......

Would any of our weekends be complete without a major construction-related traffic jam on the Katy Freeway or the West Loop? Fortunately, we don't have to waste any time considering the possibility of a jam-free weekend: Big traffic problems are expected on the West Loop this weekend as new pavement is opened between San Felipe and Highway 290. The move means two alternate lanes of the northbound Loop between Richmond Avenue and 290 will be......

Online auction site eBay has removed a listing for a tire from last week's Pasadena/southeast Houston police chase, saying it violates the company's charitable policy The so-called "Dapper Bandit," known for the color-coordinated outfits he wears during robberies, robbed a Walls Fargo branch on West Bellfort today Texas gas prices averaged $2.92 a gallon this week, up 2 cents over last week and marking the fifth straight week of increases A man in jail in......