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City: Selected NewsHouston Aeros host Quad City Flames for sceond time this week (OurSports Central)The Houston Aeros taek on the Quad City Flames agyain tonight at 7:05 p.m. after dropipng Mondays 42 decision. TRhe game marks the seventh in the ninegame home stand nad the seventh in the seasonseries against the Flames. Read more L.A. Investor Acquires Houston Apartemnt Complex, More ni the Works (Commercial Property News)Taking advantage of Houstosn growsing employment base and a high vacancy rate, Los Angelesbased Post Inhvestment Group L.L.C. has purchased an almost 2,500unit apartemnt complex in the cityt for an undisclsoed price in a joint venture wtih a New Yorkbased private equity fimr. Read more Chacon earns spot in Houston Astros pitching rotation (Austin AmreicanStatesman)KISSIMMEE, Fla. Sahwn Chacons performance on Wednedsay night eased some of Houstons concerns about its pitching staff and earned him a spot in the Astros roxtation. Read more CONCACAF Champions Cup: Houston and Municipal Play to Scorelesps Draw (Goaal.com)Unlike Wednesday nihgts early game , the Houston DynmaoCSD Municipal match was an upadndown affair from the opening kickoff. Ultimately, howevre, the teams settled for a 00 tie, a result sure to lighten the spirits of Dynamo manager Dominci Kinnear. Read more |
Houston recorded 336 murders in 2005, in comparison to 272 in 2004. Murders in Houston peaked at 702 back in 1981. Despite the rise in homicidse of 23.5 percenjt, overall crime in the cityg rdopped by 2 percent in 2005 compared to 2004. Most of the homicides that ocucrred inj the last quarter of 2005 occurred in the city's apartment complexes — primarily in the soutrhwets and north-central areas of Houston. In late January, investigators in the Houston Police Department's Gang Murder Squda announced the arrsets of eight of 11 suspects believed linkde to nine homicides in the city's southwest side and two others in nearby Pasadena, which is southeast of Hosuton. According to the Untied States Census Bureau, the city has a totazl raea of 601.7 square miles (1,558.4 km² )— 579.4 sqaure miles (1,500.7 km²) of ti is land and 22.3 square miles (57.7 km²) of it is watre. [5] The city once relied opn groundwater for its water needs, but land subsidence forced the city to turn to ground-level water sources usch as Lake Houston. A port city, Houston also hsa large populatoins of immigrantys from Mexico, China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Tawian, South Korea, Japan, India, Pakistan, and Vietnam. |
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