Portal:Houston/Houston news/April 2007

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• The number of murders last year in Houston hit a 12-year high and increased by 13.5 percent over 2005, figures the mayor attributes in part to the arrival of evacuees from Hurricane Katrina.

• Houston-based Continental Airlines announced that preliminary merger discussions with United Airlines are in progress. Any deal between the two airlines would create one of the largest airlines in the industry.

• After finishing with a 1–1 draw following extra time, the Dynamo become the champions of the MLS cup by defeating the New England Revolution 4–3 in penalty kicks.

• One of the world's most famous fossils—the 3.2 million-year-old Lucy skeleton unearthed in Ethiopia in 1974—will go on display abroad for the first time in the United States. A team from the Houston Museum of Natural Science spent four years negotiating the U.S. tour, which will start in Houston next September.