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Officials say Houston’s Metropolitan Transit Authority violated federal laws when it created its new light-rail lines.

The Federal Transit Administration says Metro must resolve the issue to qualify for a $900 million grant to continue the project.

The city council of a Houston suburb plans to debate an ordinance that would prevent illegal immigrants from owning or renting property and running businesses.

At its meeting on Tuesday, the Tomball City Council also planned to debate whether to make English the city’s official language and discuss the future of a city-run day labor site.

A documentary filmmaker remained jailed in Houston on federal immigration charges for allegedly having brass knuckles in his airplane luggage, authorities said.

Vijay Kumar, who was traveling to Canada Aug. 20, was detained by airport security officers who said he was acting suspiciously and had suspicious literature in his luggage, the Houston Chronicle reported Friday.

The gunman who held hostages at the Discovery Channel’s headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland, said an author living in Houston inspired him.

Police killed that gunman, but a manifesto he left behind is giving us some insight into why he did it. James Lee posted the 1,100-word manifesto on the now-disabled website SaveThePlanetProtest.com, a website he created. He attacks the Discovery Channel, while demanding they base more programming on the work of a Houston author.

The gunman who held hostages at the Discovery Channel’s headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland, said an author living in Houston inspired him.

Police killed that gunman, but a manifesto he left behind is giving us some insight into why he did it. James Lee posted the 1,100-word manifesto on the now-disabled website SaveThePlanetProtest.com, a website he created. He attacks the Discovery Channel, while demanding they base more programming on the work of a Houston author.

It was one of the moments in the 2008 college football season that was replayed over and over again on YouTube and on many television channels and now Marshall and Conference USA will remember it because that moment is the reason they are going to court.

In 2008, Houston receiver Patrick Edwards broke his leg in two places when he ran into a metal service cart in the back of the end zone and is suing the school and conference for that incident. Edwards filed the lawsuit Tuesday in Kanawha County Circuit Court.

International real estate investment and services company Kennedy Wilson today announced that its auction division offered and sold 26 units of Edge condominiums at an auction that it conducted on Sunday, August 29, 2010 at Hilton Americas-Houston. Gross sales totaled $6 million, and prices averaged 204% of starting bids, exceeding the seller’s expectations.

Texas financier R. Allen Stanford is in danger of losing the multimillion-dollar funding stream that has financed his defense against charges that he operated an international Ponzi scheme.

A federal judge in Houston is hearing testimony this week to decide whether Lloyd’s of London can refuse to pay legal fees in the civil and criminal cases against Mr. Stanford and his former lieutenants Gilbert Lopez Jr. and Mark Kuhrt, who also are accused of perpetrating a $7 billion fraud.

Texas financier R. Allen Stanford is in danger of losing the multimillion-dollar funding stream that has financed his defense against charges that he operated an international Ponzi scheme.

A federal judge in Houston is hearing testimony this week to decide whether Lloyd’s of London can refuse to pay legal fees in the civil and criminal cases against Mr. Stanford, and his former lieutenants, Gilbert Lopez Jr. and Mark Kuhrt, who also are accused of perpetrating a $7 billion fraud.

Police say a man called in by detectives investigating an unsolved 26-year-old murder case has confessed to the killings of his girlfriend and their infant daughter.

Sgt. Eli Cisneros and Senior Police Officer Connie Park announced the capital murder charges against 56-year-old Charles Leon Smith on Wednesday.

Police say the confession came during a routine re-investigation of cold cases. Smith confessed to the Aug. 2, 1984, strangling of 23-year-old Pamela Clarence and the suffocating of their 1-month-old daughter, Tashona.