Email Author John Nova Lomax

2011 Stories by John Nova Lomax

• YouTubed Beaumont Catfights Freak Texas the F Out

  published Jan 25, 2011

  The Southeast Texas portion of the Internet is a-crackle with a report out of Beaumont about fight videos produced by their local youth, some of them shot at area high schools with teenage bystanders ... More >>

• LaTasha Stauts: Lady Gangsta from Southwest Side Faces Three Aggravated Assault Charges

  published Jan 21, 2011

  LaTasha Danyelle Stauts is back behind bars, and at least three women are breathing a sigh of relief. Stauts, 23, is accused of punching two of them in the face with a pair of brass knuckles and menac... More >>

• Jose Otilio Diaz Jr.: Apartment Maintenance Man Allegedly Goes From Creepy Masturbator to Attempted Rapist

  published Jan 20, 2011

  Although he had only been on the job for a few weeks, Jose Otilio Diaz Jr. had not made many friends at the Lufkin apartment complex where he served as an assistant to the chief. According to an arres... More >>

• Chase Langston Wiatt: Facebook Chronicles a Year of Alleged Petty (And Not-So-Petty) Crime

  published Jan 20, 2011

  Chase Langston Wiatt has had quite a run, but with his latest felony arrest, the 19-year-old Crosby resident's luck might just have run out. For the second time since June of 2009, Wiatt stands accu... More >>

• Cover Story: Prized Possessions

  published Jan 19, 2011

  Video by Daniel Kramer and Monica Fuentes In this week's feature on the homeless and their prized possessions, we speculated that some, though certainly not all or even most of them, might subscribe ... More >>

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  Ted Stewart: Austin Man Dresses As Clown, Threatens Liquor Store Clerk

  published Jan 18, 2011

  Nobody can say 44-year-old Ted Stewart hasn't done his part to keep Austin weird. According to an arrest affidavit reported by the Austin American-Statesman, last Friday evening Stewart staggered into... More >>

• Ted Williams: Golden-Voiced Ohio Beggar Reportedly Now in Texas Rehab

  published Jan 17, 2011

  In a sadly predictable story, it seems like for Ted Williams, the Ohio beggar with the golden voice, his Internet super-celebrity proved to be too much, too soon. Now informed speculation has it that... More >>

• Alex Raymond Sanchez: Cypress Man Jailed for Sexting High Schooler

  published Jan 14, 2011

  Perhaps the 15-year-old girl should have taken as a sign that she met 22-year-old Alex Raymond Sanchez at a funeral. Her brother's funeral, no less. Maybe in her bereavement her guard was down. Who kn... More >>

• Jason Bourque and Daniel McAllister: East Texas Church Arsonists Sentenced to Life

  published Jan 14, 2011

  The crimes that East Texans Jason Robert Bourque and Daniel George McAllister were convicted of last month were disgusting indeed. The two young men, sometimes working together and other times apart, ... More >>

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  Thomas Benjamin Wright: East Texas Cop's Fateful Econo Lodge Breakfast

  published Jan 12, 2011

  In the predawn hours of Wednesday morning, 34-year-old Thomas Benjamin Wright was indisputably a long way from home, apparently very hungry and allegedly drunk off his ass. And then the Pineland cop a... More >>

• Stephen Jabbour, Mark Tilford: Kiddie Porn Cases Face Two Prominent South Texas Lawyers

  published Jan 12, 2011

  What is going on with these prominent, middle-aged lawyers in the Texas Coastal Bend and their kiddie pornr Just last week, one got sentenced to federal prison, and it seems another is likely to follo... More >>

• Tequila Coleman: Loves Fancy SUVs, Hates Paying For Them

  published Jan 11, 2011

  Apparently, Tequila Antwannette Coleman really, really, really digs luxury SUVs. They are the salt and lime in her life; without them, she is just not complete. The trouble is, she seems to have tro... More >>

• Cover Story: Keeping Up With Old Man Tim

  published Jan 05, 2011

  To get this week's feature, I knew I would have to learn firsthand what it is to be a bike courier. While I have been an almost daily bike commuter for over a year, I knew that my bike was not up to t... More >>