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2012 Stories by John Nova Lomax

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  COVER STORY

  Texas Crimes of the Year, 2012

  published December 27, 2012

  Check out all 10 Crimes of the Year mugshots in... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Infamous Last Words: Some of the Strangest Final Utterances from Death Row

  published Dec 21, 2012

  "Well, gentlemen, you are about to see a baked Appel." Those were the last words of one George Appel, a cop-killer electrocuted by the state of New York back in 1928, and it might just be the greates... More >>

• Sex Assault and Child Porn Charges Facing Taylor McClain, Atascocita High School Tennis Coach

  published Dec 19, 2012

  According to an arrest affidavit, it all started with a trip to the Phobia Haunted House on the Northwest Freeway on the night of November 6. Sixteen-year-old "Julie" was in the backseat of Atascocit... More >>

• Sugar Land Sicko Donald C. Hernandez Jr.: Decades Behind Bars for His Bizarre Kidnap/Rape Ordeal

  published Dec 19, 2012

  A previously convicted sadist who got off lightly for a twisted crime in Houston ten years ago was not so lucky last week in Trinity County, where a country jury gave him ten presidential terms behind... More >>

• Buried Kid Found Alive in Car Driven By Allegedly Smashed Mother

  published Dec 14, 2012

  A Kingwood woman has been arrested after police caught her behind the wheel of a car while allegedly intoxicated on a cornucopia of substances, all while an eight-month-old baby was buried alive under... More >>

• Nude Man Steals Refrigerator, Torches Own Apartment, Police Claim

  published Dec 12, 2012

  A San Antonio man faces an arson charge after a bizarre incident last month involving public nudity and the theft of an apartment complex community room refrigerator. According to San Antonio police,... More >>

• David Clyde, 1970s Baseball Phenom, Arrested for DWI

  published Dec 11, 2012

  David Eugene Clyde, one of baseball's great "What ifr" stories, was arrested for DWI this weekend in Harris County. In his senior year at Spring Branch's Westchester High School in 1973, the firebal... More >>

• Splendora Donkey-Dragger Gets Felony Indictment

  published Dec 11, 2012

  In one of the more horrific animal cruelty cases in the area this year, in October, a Splendora man was accused of dragging a friend's pet donkey behind his truck so fast that the animal's hooves were... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Vengeance for Beliebers: Justin Bieber Ticket Forger Gets Lengthy Prison Sentence

  published Dec 07, 2012

  A Florida man with a lengthy rap sheet ran afoul of two powerful forces yesterday: the long arm of Texas law and the mystical might of Justin Bieber. Forty-year-old Robert C. Grusczynski pleaded guil... More >>

• Greg Cochran, Thieving Former Attorney, Gets Prison Time

  published Dec 07, 2012

  Imagine you own a flower shop and you've fallen on hard times. First, you get into a wrangle with your landlord after the sewer line backed up into the building. Then, Hurricane Ike comes along and do... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Slaughtered Pig Left Outside of Cypress Mosque a Possible Hate Crime

  published Dec 05, 2012

  As a group of Muslims came to pray last night at the Islamic Outreach Center on Wilks Drive near Mueschke Road in Cypress, they made a sickening discovery. There was a dead pig on the deck of the dec... More >>

• Valley Man Caught Molesting Neighbor's Dog

  published Dec 05, 2012

  Last week a man in the Rio Grande Valley caught one of his neighbors trespassing in his kennel, diddling his dog. It happened last Tuesday in the town of San Juan. San Juan Police Department Sgt. Ru... More >>

• Jason Bernard Jackson: Allegedly Rapes Man, Tells Him He Has AIDS, Then Steals Wallet

  published Dec 04, 2012

  Back in the late '80s, there was an urban legend that went a little something like this: Guy picks up girl, they go back to his place and have sex. Guy falls asleep. When he wakes up, the girl is gone... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Austin Kinder Teacher to Afterschool Class: "You Kids Don't Believe in Santa, Do Your"

  published Dec 04, 2012

  Late last week, a five-year-old girl came home from Austin's Pease Elementary school with a question for her dad. "Daddy," she asked her father, "Is Santa realr" Dad said yes, and wanted to know why... More >>

• Noise-Complaining Nimbys: Not Just an Inner Loop Hassle Anymore

  published Nov 30, 2012

  The owner of a historic Oak Forest icehouse is suing a neighbor for assault, claiming that the man's violent threats and overall pattern of harassment are harming his business. Plaintiff Edward Sanch... More >>

• Gennifer Bree Simons: The Tortured Mugshot of a Woman Scorned (and Accused Arsonist)

  published Nov 30, 2012

  Pasadena authorities say the ex-girlfriend of a local man set his house on fire Sunday evening. Thirty-three-year-old Gennifer Bree Simons was arrested a short time after the 7 p.m. blaze, which inve... More >>

• Cover Story: Pancho and Shorty, the Battle of Barrio Christmas

  published Nov 29, 2012

  For 16 years, Richard "Pancho Claus" Reyes and Shorty Villarreal were partners in barrio Christmas. Pancho was the zoot-suited Santa Claus figure, while lowrider expert Villarreal provided his sleigh ... More >>

• Stanley Marsh 3 Charged with 11 Sex Crimes; Hires Houston's Paul Nugent and Heather Peterson

  published Nov 29, 2012

  Quirky millionaire Amarillo oil heir and arts patron Stanley Marsh 3 was booked into Potter County Jail yesterday on 11 sex crimes involving boys under the age of 17. He has since been released after ... More >>

• Ethiopian Political Head-Butting in Southwest Houston Spawns Lawsuit, Criminal Charge

  published Nov 28, 2012

  An Ethiopian-American man handing out flyers for a memorial service for Ethiopia's recently deceased prime minister, Meles Zenawi, claims he was assaulted by a countryman who reviled the repressive le... More >>

• Dr. Bernard Z. Albina, Kiddy-Porn Loving, Alleged Child Rapist Orthopedic Surgeon, Gets Ten Years in Federal Prison

  published Nov 28, 2012

  A Houston orthopedic surgeon a veteran cop called the most obsessed child molester he'd ever seen has been sentenced to ten years in federal prison after he was found guilty of possessing ten videos a... More >>

• "Almost Homeless" Montrose Man Is Spotless Impressionist of King of the Hill Characters and the Crocodile Hunter

  published Nov 27, 2012

  The Friday before Thanksgiving, local filmmaker Mike James was shooting the final scenes of his romance/psychodrama Web series Love, Why Don't You Stay when filming was interrupted by "Timothy," who i... More >>

• Thanksgiving Domestic Violence: A Tale of Two H-Town November Weekends

  published Nov 27, 2012

  Thanksgiving is all about long hours in hot kitchens, feuding family members (and in-laws) cooped up together, perhaps a surplus of alcohol, and a preponderance of testosterone coming from the footbal... More >>

• (UPDATED: He's Gone.) Breaking News: What's Up With Wayne Dolcefino and Channel 13r

  published Nov 21, 2012

  It's well-known that Channel 13's Wayne Dolcefino has long been hounding Precinct 6 Constable Victor Trevino, so many thought it singularly strange that Ted Oberg broke the story of the veteran lawman... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Police Say the Catt Family Robs Banks Together, and Now They Get to Stay Together, in Jail.

  published Nov 19, 2012

  A Katy father and his adult son and daughter have all been charged with bank robbery, and police believe that the family team might have knocked over as many as six other banks in Oregon and Texas. T... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Surgical Technician Sues M.D. Anderson Over Raunchy Talk in the O.R.

  published Nov 16, 2012

  Sheila Gordon, a certified surgical technician, is suing U.T. - M.D. Anderson, claiming that the world-renowned cancer treatment center is a sexually hostile workplace. According to the suit filed on... More >>