MONTGOMERY COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICIALS SAY A 58-YEAR-OLD MAN WAS KILLED BY A STRAY BULLET LAST NIGHT AT THE KOA CAMPGROUNDS OFF OF 105 JUST EAST OF MONTGOMERY. OFFICIALS SAY THE BULLET, BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN SHOT FROM A WOODED AREA NEARBY, HIT HIM IN THE ABDOMEN. THE VICTIM WAS TAKEN TO CONROE REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER, WHERE HE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD.

A PERSON IS DEAD AFTER MONTGOMERY COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICIALS SAY THEY WERE STRUCK BY A TRAIN EARLIER THIS MORNING. OFFICIALS SAY THE PERSON WAS APPARENTLY LAYING ON THE TRACK AT MICKE STREET IN THE PORTER AREA, AND WAS RUN OVER BY THE RAIN AT AROUND THREE THIS MORNING.

AN ALLEGED KIDNAPPING AND BURGLARY LANDS THREE MEN AND A FEMALE TEENAGER IN THE MONTGOMERY COUNTY JAIL.  WITNESSES TOLD SHERIFF’S DETECTIVES THE SUSPECTS ASSAULTED TWO PEOPLE AT A HOME ON NORTH GREEN CIRCLE IN CONROE, AND ATTEMPTED TO KIDNAP THE VICTIMS, BUT ONE WAS ABLE TO ESCAPE. THE SUSPECTS THEN ASSAULTED ANOTHER MAN INSIDE THE HOME AND KIDNAPPED HIM ALONG WITH A WOMAN AND DROVE THEM TO THE TREE HOUSE APARTMENTS, WHERE THE SUSPECTS WERE THEN ARRESTED. OFFICIALS SAY THE INITIAL INVESTIGATON REVEALED MONEY WAS EXCHANGED FOR PRESCRIPTION DRUGS, WHICH WERE NOT DELIVERED.

IN LIBERTY COUNTY, EXPERTS SAY A MASSIVE SINKHOLE HAS SLOWED ITS GROWTH. THE 900-FEET-ACROSS GAP IN DAISETTA HAS GROWN TO AT LEAST 260 FEET DEEP. IT HAS MANAGED TO SWALLOW OIL TANKS, TIRES, TELEPHONE POLES AND SEVERAL VEHICLES, BUT NO INJURIES HAVE BEEN REPORTED SO FAR.

THREE KINGWOOD TEENS HAVE BEEN ARRESTED AFTER POLICE SAY ONE TOLD THEM THAT THEY HAD DUG UP A SKULL AND FASHIONED IT INTO A BONG TO SMOKE POT. HOUSTON AUTHORITIES SAY THE TEENS DUG UP WILLIE SIMMS’ GRAVE. BROKE OFF THE SKULL AND SMOKED MARIJUANA FROM IT.

PRESIDENT BUSH IS GATHERING FAMILY AND FRIENDS AT HIS RANCH FOR TOMORROW’S WEDDING OF HIS DAUGHTER JENNA. ASSOCIATED PRESS’ MARK SMITH HAS MORE. - (AUDIO COURTESY OF ASSOCIATED PRESS)

IN HONOR OF NATIONAL POLICE WEEK NEXT WEEK, THE CONROE POLICE DEPARTMENT WILL HOLD PEACE OFFICER MEMORIAL DAY. POLICE CHIEF CHARLIE RAY SAYS A SPECIAL CEREMONY WILL BE HELD NEXT THURSDAY TO HONOR ONE OF THEIR OWN WHO LOST HIS LIFE IN THE LINE OF DUTY. THAT CEREMONY TAKES PLACE NEXT THURSDAY AT NOON AT HERITAGE PLACE PARK ON COLLINS STREET.