- State Senate starts off the session with a tense closed-door discussion on the two-thirds rule.
- It's official: Straus is now Speaker of the Texas House after a unanimous vote.
- Because of confusion re: the permitting process, City Council mulling over a temporary hold on outdoor music permits.
- The helicopter crash yesterday on the A&M campus killed a Lufkin soldier.
- Meals on Wheels and More accepting converter box coupons to pass on to their homebound clients.
- T. Boone Pickens hopes that some stimulus funds will go towards converting commercial trucks to natural gas.
- 1978 Dallas rape/homicide case overturned by an appeals court, meaning a man who's been on death row for 30 years could soon be freed.




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