Gibson said he would continue to support Democratic candidates in the 2012 election.

However, his decision was met with a strong public backlash. According to a Houston Business Journal poll, more than 75 percent of more than 1,300 poll respondents as of Tuesday were not in favor of the name change.

The woman, Keshia Debrisha Sanchez, 26, faces one count of felony injury to a child,. Her bond has been set at $30,000, court records show.

Officials say 49-year-old Saul Abraham Fiszer stepped down Friday after 18 years with the Houston Fire Department. He was placed on leave earlier this week.

Fiszer is being held in the Harris County Jail on $20,000 bond. His attorney didn’t immediately return a message.

A criminal complaint says on Jan. 10, Fiszer’s wife discovered her husband had frequently been texting a 14-year-old girl in Casper, Wyo. Confronted by his wife, Fiszer admitted chatting online and trading pictures with the teen.

The Houston Chronicle reports that (http://bit.ly/Abkkft) police seized computers and media storage devices from Fiszer. Investigators said they found at least 450 images of child pornography.

The Mingo County Democrat said his fellow delegates sought to aid that trip with Monday’s ahead-of-schedule, nearly unanimous passage of Tomblin’s tax break proposal meant to lure one or more “cracker” facilities. The House advanced the bill 93-1 to the Senate.

New owner Jim Crane, at a Monday event to announce several fan-inspired initiatives, said the team was “highly considering” altering its uniforms — which hopefully means a return to the polarizing rainbow jerseys once favored by presidential candidate Ron Paul. Hey, if they were good enough for him and J.R. Richard…

Crane seemed less certain that the Astros would be renamed, but he definitely was floating a trial balloon when reminiscing about the Colt .45s, the name of the franchise from its inaugural season in 1962 until 1965. The likes of Rusty Staub, Joe Morgan and Jim Wynn played for the franchise when it was called the Colts, so there’s some history there. And the space program isn’t what it once was so…

Last year, Houston shut down the controversial cameras after residents rose up against them. That decision could cost the city big this year.

According to documents Eyewitness News obtained Saturday, the city of Houston and red light camera manufacturer American Traffic Solutions have come up with a compromise and settlement agreement.

In that proposal, the city would agree to pay ATS more than $12 million dollars for the breached red light camera contract, which ends in 2014.

ATS and the city of Houston have been fighting it out in court since voters decided in November they wanted the cameras turned off.

After the public saw those cameras were turned off and then turned on again, it took a vote by city council members in August to ultimately turn off the red light cameras off permanently.

ATS was seeking $25 million from the city of Houston for breach of contract.

If city council approves this settlement, the city will pay around $4.78 million dollars to ATS up front, but the potential pay-out could climb to about $12 million over the next three years.

The funds to pay the settlement will come from previously collected fines that are in escrow and the approximately $25 million the city is still owed in outstanding red light camera fines issued when the program was still operational.

Under the terms of the agreement, ATS will be paid $2.3 million up front. This represents the amount ATS would have received had the red light cameras remained on from the date they were initially turned off following the voter initiative in November 2010 to December of 2011.

ATS will also receive another $2.4 million over the next three years. This additional amount is meant to address the amounts ATS could have received under its contract with the city, based on collection of delinquent red light camera fines.

In exchange for the payments, ATS has agreed to end its legal fight with the city and remove all of its cameras from Houston intersections within 60 days of approval of the settlement by Houston City Council.

Houston’s legal department is recommending that the council approve the settlement. They are also recommending that council authorize the mayor to enter into additional third party agreements to support the collection of outstanding fines, if necessary.

George J. Hittner, ATS general counsel and corporate secretary, told us the deal has taken all sides weeks to iron out.

“We’ve gone through two mediations, we’ve had a lot of dialogue with the city, and at this point and time, we believe we’ve reached an agreement that will be presented to city council,” Hittner said. “I think it’s in the best interest of both sides to put this matter behind them, and let’s move on.”

In a statement released Saturday evening from City Hall, Mayor Annise Parker said “I am thankful that traffic violators, not Houston taxpayers, will be paying for this. This is a reasonable settlement and I thank the City legal department for its diligence in getting it done.”

Police are reviewing surveillance video from the area Wednesday.

The car was still running when police found the body of Gelareh Bagherzadeh, 30, behind the wheel about 12:30 a.m. Monday in a posh townhouse development about a mile west of Interstate 610, Officer J.C. Padilla said.

“When the officer arrived, the car’s tires were still spinning. He had to reach in and turn off the motor,” he told KPRC-TV of Houston

Bagherzadeh apparently was talking on the phone with an ex-boyfriend when she was shot, police Homicide Sgt. Richard Bolton said.

Single-family home sales were up 4 percent for the year while the median price inched up 0.7 percent to $155,000, the Houston Association of Realtors said today in a monthly report.