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2001 Stories by George Flynn

• An O'K(ane) Deal

  published December 27, 2001

  Those behind bars may often come up with strange stories, but convict Florence Myra Strom had a particularly bizarre tale to pass along to a... More >>

• Range War

  published November 22, 2001

  In a section of the Addicks Reservoir just north of the Katy Freeway, Bayou Rifles Inc. announces its honorable intentions with a sign detailing... More >>

• Fat Chance

  published October 25, 2001

  Despite a softened edict by Reliant Energy, nearly 50 overweight company linemen are expected to have their jobs go to waist next... More >>

• Payback Time?

  published October 18, 2001

  Defense attorney Dick DeGuerin and client James "Smokie" Phillips celebrated the apparent end of a long ordeal in September 1997. Phillips had... More >>

• Sex Offenders 1, State 0

  published May 24, 2001

  In 1999 a tough-on-crime state legislature could tout itself as getting even tougher on criminals. It passed a new, politically appealing law that... More >>

• Texas Gothic

  published May 17, 2001

  Along the main thoroughfare of the city of Orange rises the great dome of the 1908 Lutcher Memorial Presbyterian Church. Even God, it seems, got a... More >>

• Very Appealing

  published May 17, 2001

  Last week's revelation that the FBI withheld evidence in the Oklahoma City bombing prosecutions touched off widespread media speculation about its... More >>

• An Open Mike

  published April 19, 2001

  Houston and its sometime homeboys were on a Republican roll to start the new year. Much of the city reveled first at the earlier news from... More >>