Email Author John Nova Lomax

2010 Stories by John Nova Lomax

• Peter Neal Ennis: Cops Ask For K-2, He Tries To Sell Real Weed

  published Nov 22, 2010

  The redneck-a-licious northern Galveston County town of Santa Fe is one of a growing number of Texas municipalities to have banned so-called "K-2," the synthetic marijuana convenience stores peddle un... More >>

• Meth Fires Galore In Lufkin

  published Nov 18, 2010

  Man, Lufkin's got the crystal methamphetamine blues bad. Just as one high-profile meth lab fire case comes to a close, another one opens... We begin with the adventures of Gilbert Sanders and Charles... More >>

• Edwin Jabroskey Simpson: Four Loko-Knockoff Theft Could Equal Decades In Prison

  published Nov 17, 2010

  Edwin Jabroskey Simpson of Lufkin was thirsty, and in his view, overly sober. And nothing -- not abject poverty nor an angry cop -- was gonna stop the hulking 22-year-old from getting hold of an ice-c... More >>

• Paul Ruiz: Faceplants Three Times In Running From Cops

  published Nov 17, 2010

  Say what you will about Paul Ruiz...that he's not that bright, that he's a convicted sex offender, a ne'er do well spotted prowling around people's cars in the wee hours clad all in black clothes...Bu... More >>

• PSA: Board Games And Loaded Guns Don't Mix

  published Nov 11, 2010

  By now everybody's heard of the Keep Austin Weird campaign, and most of us are probably also aware of the copycat campaigns in other Texas cities, like Keep Dallas Pretentious and Keep Houston Crunk, ... More >>

• In The (Green) Zone: Trying Out A Local Company's Fun Little Folding Bike

  published Nov 11, 2010

  Who says Houston is a completely car-dominated cityr Scratch that. If anyone tells you it isn't, they're a liar. And yet Houston is home to companies like Green Zone Bikes, manufacturers and purve... More >>

• Cover Story: Jason Nodler Discusses Bluefinger, His New Rock Opera About One Debauched Dutchman

  published Nov 10, 2010

  "I am only ever interested in art/work/plays/music about how weird and fucked up it is to be a human animal on the planet earth, aware of and in necessary denial of our mortality, of the fact that eac... More >>

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  Texas Foodies and Chefs Secede from Dixie: The Texas Food Alliance Fundraiser at Armadillo Palace

  published Nov 10, 2010

  While the mighty ice sculpture with the Foodways Texas logo slowly melted amid it all, rivers of St. Arnold's and Dripping Springs vodka / Rio Grande Valley ruby red grapefruit juice cocktails flowed.... More >>

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  Wadren Hilger: East Texas Woman Faces Three Felony Counts In Horrific Child Abuse Case

  published Nov 04, 2010

  Back in June, doctors at Beaumont's St. Elizabeth hospital were shocked at the condition of their little patient from Silsbee. The three-year-old girl was semi-comatose, suffering from seizures and br... More >>

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  HPD: There Might Be A Serial Killer Downtown. Or Maybe Not.

  published Nov 03, 2010

  Over the summer and fall, three black women have been found strangled in and around the streets of downtown Houston.While some are starting to speculate that a serial killer is on the loose, at a news... More >>

• Sex And Violence On Facebook: Wankie McDoucherson's Saga

  published Oct 27, 2010

  Ain't the Internet wonderfulr We found out just how much fun it could be yet again yesterday, when we stumbled across what looked like a garden-variety domestic violence report on file in the Harris C... More >>

• Larry Garza: Corpus Man Busted With Beer In Car-Seat And Kids Roaming Free

  published Oct 26, 2010

  South Texas is hell-bent on showing the rest of us exciting new ways of involving the whole family in drunk driving shenanigans.Last week, Hair Balls brought you the Padre Island-based story of the (a... More >>

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  One Toke Of K2 Over The Line: Real High From Fake Weed Lands Bryan Man In Jail

  published Oct 26, 2010

  An unidentified 24-year-old Bryan man faces Class B misdemeanor DWI charges after allegedly admitting to police that he smoked K2, a marijuana-like substance sold legally in Houston stores as incense.... More >>

• Jacob Thompson: $20 Gets You A Tat And Minor Surgery (Allegedly)

  published Oct 22, 2010

  rNot many of us would confuse James "Jacob" Thompson with a medical doctor, but to an unidentified 16-year-old East Texas woman, the fact that the Groveton man was something of a tattoo artist w... More >>

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  Linda Rosales and Jessica Rosales: Fail In Scheme To Use Kid's Breath To Fool Breathalyzer

  published Oct 20, 2010

  We've all been there before: we've driven to a party and gotten shit-faced. And then we've been faced with a dilemma: How best to get you and all your kids homerIt's especially hard when the damn law ... More >>

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  Falcon Lake: Casting The Inevitable Lifetime Movie

  published Oct 19, 2010

  Okay, so it's time to get started on the script and casting for the movie about David and Tiffany's fateful Jet-Ski trip on Falcon Lake. First, what to name this movier The Pirates of Falcon Lake wi... More >>

• Rayond Wilson II: Three Life Sentences For East Texas Trailer Park Bloodbath

  published Oct 18, 2010

  Back in December, Hair Balls brought you the story of an East Texas trailer park murder spree that left two women and one man dead. Late last week the accused in the case -- 46-year-old Raymond Wils... More >>

• Falcon Lake: Case Closedr Five Remaining Oddities In A Very Weird Case

  published Oct 15, 2010

  After the murder and decapitation of one of their own, Mexican investigators are calling off the search for David Hartley's body, temporarily at least.So, is it case closedr Is STRATFOR's theory -- th... More >>

• Falcon Lake: An Austin-Based National Defense Think Tank Chimes In

  published Oct 14, 2010

  STRATFOR, an Austin-based think tank specializing in the Drug War and other national security measures, claims to have information shedding light on the disappearance and possible death of jet-skier D... More >>

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  Tiffany Young-Hartley: A CSI Expert Comments On The Strange Physics Of Her Husband's Alleged Shooting

  published Oct 14, 2010

  One of the things that has troubled us from the get-go about Tiffany Young-Hartley's accounts of the events on Falcon Lake has always been her initial description of the moment her husband was shot. ... More >>

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  Tiffany Young-Hartley: Beheading Related To Case Or Notr

  published Oct 13, 2010

  The Mexican military leader of the investigation into the disappearance of David Michael Hartley has been beheaded, according to Texas state representative Aaron Pena and Zapata County sheriff Sigifre... More >>

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  Tiffany Young-Hartley: A Clairvoyant Sheriff, Vanishing Suspects, Whoring Politicos, Incompetent Pot Smugglers, And Weird Facebook Photos

  published Oct 12, 2010

  Some law officers will tell you they develop a sixth sense about crime. They will say that even while they are driving to work, they know the kind of mayhem their shift will bring. But as Talking Poi... More >>

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  Kristin Diane Massey: Female Sex Offender In Trouble Again

  published Oct 08, 2010

  It certainly looks like last night was a wild one for 27-year-old Kristin Diane Massey.According to court records, the rail-thin Massey agreed to have sex for money with an undercover cop and was arre... More >>

• Bill Satterwhite: Three (Alleged) Strikes And You're Out Of The Fake Lawyerin' Game

  published Oct 06, 2010

  For the third time, former attorney William Everett Satterwhite has been caught practicing law without a license. This time the penalty for the 66-year-old disbarred lawyer could be life in prison. A... More >>

• Tiffany Young-Hartley: Plot In Mexican Lake Pirate Murder Thickens As Body Proves Hard To Find

  published Oct 05, 2010

  October certainly came in like a lion for residents of the Rio Grande Valley. On October 1, news broke of the alleged murder of an American jet-skier on border-straddling, allegedly freshwater-pirate... More >>