Email Author John Nova Lomax
We'll get to our list of the five zip codes with the most sex offenders in Houston, but first let's discuss other areas of note. Outside of one of the zips in the list that follows, the area with th... More >>
Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house, well, plenty of creatures were stirring in the house in this story... ... Police in Edinburg say that in the wee hours of December 24, a Va... More >>
In an altercation that put us in mind of Jerome Ponette, it all started with a squabble between two strippers over something one of them likely believed the other had stolen. Before it was all over,... More >>
Late on the night of December 20, 12-year-old Alex (not his real name) asked his dad if he could go meet a friend and watch the lunar eclipse from the parking lot of a Med Center oil-change joint. His... More >>
Hard as it may be to believe, the criminal element of Southeast Texas did dumb and weird things in 2010, continuing a tradition that dates back to the creation of Southeast Texas. Here are ten of the... More >>
Here's a dozen of the creepiest, funniest, fugliest, and weirdest mugshots of 2010. Enjoy them, but know this: there but the grace of God and a too-wild night could go you. 12. Randolph Caldwell 11. ... More >>
Here's a selection of the ten best male and ten best female names we found in many months' worth of trolling Harris County arrest records. A couple of disclaimers in order: Not all, indeed not neces... More >>
If you believe what Jason Woytek has written about himself on the Internet, you'd think he was a man of many and varied achievements: a man of God, a top salesman, budding author, an Eagle Scout and a... More >>
Despite being smitten with Kingsville TV reporter Katia Uriarte, her suitor just couldn't take any more. The unidentified Texas A&M-Kingsville grad student penned a sorrowful break-up e-mail and sen... More >>
It goes without saying that it's not a good idea to commit another violent felony -- specifically, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon -- while you are already on probation for a violent crime. ... More >>
When you think of movies that could inspire people to commit acts of public lewdness, Megamind, the new Will Ferrell-, Brad Pitt- and Tina Fey-voiced animated children's superhero flick doesn't immedi... More >>
In the wake of our story about DynCorp's ill-fated Afghan dance party, DynCorp's vice president of communications Ashley Vanarsdall Burke has sent in an official response. The company says that there... More >>
Thieves around the world are often noted for their sleight of hand, their ability to conceal what is not theirs and spirit it away to a place of safe-keeping undetected. Some are true masters of the a... More >>
For Kristin Diane Massey, the convicted sex offender we wrote about this fall after she was accused of wiggling out of the back of a police car, there's good news and bad news. And some more bad news.... More >>
Another international conflict, another horrific taxpayer-funded sex scandal for DynCorp, the private security contractor tasked with training the Afghan police. While the company is officially base... More >>
UPDATE: Charges against Dr. Onishi were dropped on December 17. According to one court document, the reason for the dismissal is "the interest of justice." When asked to elaborate, Dr. Onishi's atto... More >>
We coastal Texan men are apparently a randy, lonely lot. Even as Galveston cops plucked the Seawall Spanker -- a publicly masturbating surfing aficionado -- from his car on the edge of the Gulf, anoth... More >>
Apparently, Clifford Lee Bradberry deeply enjoys whacking off, and while there's nothing wrong with that per se, Bradberry insists on involving the public in his masturbatory shenanigans. Acting on a... More >>
The Heights / Timbergrove cat mutilations we covered last summer remain unsolved, but Houston police believe they have busted the culprit in a string of dog poisonings in the Jackson Hill area. And ... More >>
I have to say, I kind of wondered when the Drug Enforcement Agency was going to crack down on K-2 and other THC-simulating substances. What's more, although I am pretty Libertarian when it comes to dr... More >>
A 37-year-old East Texas woman is going to prison after pleading no contest to engaging in oral sex with three teenaged boys. On Monday, Trishana "Mama Bear" Broussard was sentenced to a six-year se... More >>
When Marianne Whitley and Dennis DeAcetis got divorced in 2003, Whitley got the house. Or at least she thought she did, with good reason. After all, it was so ruled by the judge in their divorce case,... More >>
If you've ever seen the shit-show that is Cheaters, that Dallas-bred abomination of televised romantic desolation, you know the drill. Woman comes back to bleak exurban apartment complex and sees ca... More >>
Acting on a tip, Montgomery County Constables took down a "shake and bake" meth lab in a New Caney motel in the wee hours of Saturday morning. Arrested were 34-year-old Kerry Lee Datray, of Clevelan... More >>
Last month, we brought you the tale of James "Jacob" Thompson, the 23-year-old East Texas tattoo artist accused of accepting a $20 fee for both illegally tattooing and surgically removing a birth cont... More >>
