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  • Todays MLB starting lineups May 19

    Below are starting lineups that have been made public by the clubs. A lineup is not official until it is handed to the umpire. Additional lineups will be added as they become available: Atlanta Braves: 1. ...

  • Harris County deputy killed in a crash

    Officers say around 3:10 a.m. Sunday, a Harris County Deputy was involved in a crash at the intersection of West Little York and North Shepherd ...

  • Driver runs down 2 people in parking lot

    Around 1:15 a.m. Sunday, police said a woman drove into the parking lot of an apartment complex on Bostic Street and West Street. According to reports, another woman was closing the rod iron fence to the complex when the driver slammed into the fence, knocking the victim onto the ...

  • Winning ticket for 590-mln-dollar Powerball jackpot sold in Florida

    The winning ticket was sold at a supermarket in Zephyrhills, Florida. No further details on the lone winner was available. The numbers drawn Saturday were: 10, 13, 14, 22 and 52 with a Powerball number of ...

  • Holland looks to maintain season-long consistency

    In a rotation with two rookie right-handers and a converted reliever, Rangers left-hander Derek Holland has become increasingly important to his team. Delivering a level of consistency so far this season, Holland has tossed seven or more innings and allowed four runs or fewer in six of his eight starts. He'll look to give the Rangers that same kind of boost on Sunday against the Tigers in ...


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Movie Review

Road to Perdition

Road to Perdition, director Sam Mendes' follow-up to his 1999 Oscar-winning hit American Beauty, is a stately, elegant gangster film, beautifully directed and somehow both moving and slightly distanced. Perhaps it is the film's formal beauty--its graceful camera movements, rich dark-amber hues, and precise compositions--that keeps it at a slight distance, almost too gorgeous an imag ... ...

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  • Powerball winning numbers announced

    Last-minute fortune seekers buy Powerball tickets It's all about the odds. With four out of every five possible combinations of Powerball numbers in play, someone is almost sure to win the game's highest jackpot during Saturday night's drawing, a windfall of hundreds of millions of dollars -- and that's after taxes. The problem, of course, is those same odds just about ...

  • DEA officer shoots man in Houstonian parking lot

    "He's outside his vehicle at the time, the suspect is in his SUV at the time, revving his engine, knowing he's about to be cornered by a number of other agents. He probably had every intention of running down the DEA agent and anyone else who got in his way." Said John Cannon an H.P.D. ...

  • Houston police officer involved in major accident

    A Houston police officer is recovering after investigators say he was involved in a major accident on Highway 290 at Hollister Road in northwest Harris ...

  • 300-pound Texas man dies after police use stun gun

    Fort Worth police used the stun gun on 34-year-old Jermaine Darden Thursday because they say he was resisting arrest. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports Darden died a short time later at a local ...

  • Star Trek shuttle craft to be displayed in Houston

    The Star Trek shuttlecraft Galileo is landing in Houston to be displayed not far from NASA's Mission Control, which may have been able to help Mr. Spock all those years ...

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