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Copyright 2008 Houston Chronicle Eighteen employees of a sexually oriented business were arrested after authorities raided the north Harris County club this week. The Harris County Sheriff's Office Vice Division conducted a raid about 1 p.m. Thursday at the St. James Cabaret, 555 Rankin, after receiving complaints from citizens, authorities said. Residents complained ...

Wholesale jump worries industry, aims at customers By TOM FOWLER Copyright 2008 Houston Chronicle Summer has come early for Texans, but it's not because of the weather. The price of electricity already was rising toward records because of climbing natural gas prices. Now it's getting an extra boost from unexpected spikes in the wholesale ...

Associated Press MEXICO CITY — Authorities said a new list threatening police in the violence-plagued border city of Ciudad Juarez was found Friday with the names of a dozen officers. A similar list with the names of 22 officers appeared earlier this year at a monument to fallen policemen in Ciudad Juarez. ...

By Tim Evans Posted: May 31, 2008 Prosecutors charged a Beech Grove man with murder Friday in the death earlier this month of his 14-month-old son. William Foster, 30, already was being held at Marion County Jail II on charges of battery and neglect. is son, William D. Foster, died May 23 at Riley ...

By Erin Dostal Posted: May 31, 2008 Getting a driver's license used to be a sign of independence, a rite of passage, a chance to cruise around with the music cranked up and the windows down. Teens today are no less excited about getting behind the wheel, but high gas prices have many ...

In light of low salaries, many Cubans do not bother to work, preferring to make their money on the street. BY MIAMI HERALD STAFF CARDENAS, Cuba -- Loraicys is 27 years old and has never held a job. She is not alone. As Raúl Castro embarks on an ambitious plan to kick-start the communist ...

Associated Press Published on: 05/30/08 ARVADA, Colo. — Police are searching for two robbers whose masks showed plenty of fashion sense but little modesty: women's thong underwear. A surveillance video released this week by police in Arvada shows two unarmed men inside the convenience store. They stole an undisclosed amount of cash and ...

LUFKIN, Texas — A former nurse accused of intentionally injecting bleach into two patients at a dialysis center was arrested Friday, police said. Two witnesses said they saw Kimberly Clark Saenz, 34, draw bleach into syringes and inject it into two patients' dialysis lines at the DaVita Dialysis Center on April ...

The Associated Press Friday, May 30th 2008, 4:00 AM The tourism minister was waiting, bound proposals in hand, for an international donors conference to secure money to turn the impoverished country into the Caribbean's next vacation hotspot. Then violent street protests in April over soaring food costs killed at least seven and injured ...

BY OREN YANIV and ALISON GENDAR DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS Saturday, May 31st 2008, 4:00 AM A young receptionist who was the victim of a Chinatown knife attack said Friday she endured months of torment by her crazed ex-boyfriend before his hired thugs left half her face in tatters. "He was saying he was ...