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23 lost in storm are still missing from Bolivar Peninsula
Teams have worked for weeks to search remote debris sites and flag areas that possibly hold human remains. But no one has yet been able to excavate so-called "hot spots."
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Houstonians devise ways to cope with financial crisis
As Wall Street tanks and consumer confidence plummets, area residents are cutting back on spending. They're pulling money out of the stock market, canceling vacations and putting off big purchases.
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Harris County challenges religious limits on autopsies
Orthodox Jews and others whose religion forbids most autopsies no longer would be able to contest the need for such a procedure under a proposal the Harris County Medical Examiner's Office would like to submit to the Texas Legislature.
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Plan for ex-golf course has some in Clear Lake teed off
The 178 acres of green space — still green but now decidedly shaggy — is at the center of a controversy pitting an owner who wants to sell it off in pieces to build houses, condominiums and strip centers against a community that fears what development could do to their property values.
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Austin craftsman keeps guitars in playing shape
Small pliers, wrenches, screwdrivers, a vise, chemicals and intensely bright lamps cover this working man's table like confetti. Mark Erlewine is cradling a vintage Fender Jazzmaster.
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100 Vietnam 'brothers' gather for first Texas reunion
With service in the Vietnam War as their only common link, about 100 men from across Texas gathered Saturday in northwest Houston in an attempt to establish what they hope will become an increasingly popular annual tradition.
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Teen's tombstone found; now search is on for parents
As Keri Davila carefully brushed sand off the mysterious white object, an eerie feeling swept over her. She had found a tombstone.
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Lampson wants meteorological 1st responders
The National Weather Service needs to undergo a modernization plan that would create a network of highly trained meteorological first responders, a local congressman said Saturday.
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Top educator sees potential problem in TAKS rewards
The state's education boss is warning school superintendents that pizza parties, field trips and other rewards for students who pass the TAKS may violate education privacy laws by inadvertently outing students who fail.
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Texas comes to collect $815 million owed by drivers
Nearly 1 million Texas motorists owe a combined $815 million for violations such as a driving while intoxicated and failure to have insurance, and the state wants them to start paying up.
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Sunday Q&A: Don't shield kids from economic strife
Robert McPherson, executive associate dean of the University of Houston College of Education, talked to Chronicle education reporter Jennifer Radcliffe about how parents should discuss the issue of economic strife with their children.
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Bradford-Lykos race for DA puts system on trial
Harris County voters looking for a district attorney candidate with a "tough on crime" theme are out of luck this fall.
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Arson investigators looking into Montrose house fire
The home at Banks and Hazard was undergoing renovations.
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FEMA extends hotel stay for Hurricane Ike victims
The agency planned to end the transitional-shelter benefit on Tuesday, but has opted to extend it until at least Oct. 28 for people displaced from their homes because of damage or power outages caused by the storm.
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