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2011 Stories by John Nova Lomax

• Lavelle Hopkins: Arrested After Stick-Up of East Texas Library

  published Apr 26, 2011

  You know that old saying: You rob banks because that's where the money is. Evidently Lavelle Hopkins of Hughes Springs never availed himself of that wisdom. How else can you explain the crime he is ac... More >>

• Robin Lynn Bell: Drags Toddler Through Traffic, Drives Off With Kid Dangling Out Window (Allegedly)

  published Apr 25, 2011

  Apparently Robin Lynn Bell is not handling the break-up with her baby's father very well. The 24-year-old northside woman, whom court records list as packing over 300 pounds on her 5' 3" frame, has be... More >>

• David Wayne Tabor: Who Says White Guys Can't Pimpr

  published Apr 25, 2011

  In the unforgettable 1999 documentary American Pimp, filmmakers the Hughes Brothers profiled nine of America's most prominent legends of the pimpin' game: people like Chicago's Don Magic Juan and San ... More >>

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  For Sale: LBJ's Old Montrose Digs

  published Apr 22, 2011

  While Hair Balls has been going all Doris Kearns Goodwin with our presidential history, we might as well tell you that LBJ's one-time Montrose crash pad is on the block. The 107-year-old white clapbo... More >>

• Bernardo Bernal: Seven-Year-Old Son Took Daddy's Ecstasy To School

  published Apr 22, 2011

  San Benito dad Bernardo Bernal, 27, was jailed earlier this month after his seven-year-old son allegedly took a handful of ecstasy out of daddy's backpack and started handing the brightly colored pill... More >>

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  David Beauchemin / Damon James Heynen: Fugitive Snake Farmer Busted Again In East Texas

  published Apr 21, 2011

  UPDATE:At a court appearance this week in Wood County, Beauchemin stated for the record that his real name is Damon James Heimen. A judge decreed that all of the snakes confiscated in last week's ra... More >>

• Five Street Scams Dogging Houston Now

  published Apr 21, 2011

  While we are exposed to them on the internet pretty much every day, many con artists are still working "bricks-and-mortar" real-life scams. Some experts claim that each and every one of us will be app... More >>

• Delani Hazen: Allegedly Drunken Tractor Ride Lays Waste to Countryside, Cuts Power to Town

  published Apr 19, 2011

  What had to have been a wild night in Amarillo last Friday got even wilder after 20-year-old Delani Hazen's friends either intentionally or unintentionally left her by the side of Interstate 40 just w... More >>

• Past Blasted: Alcopop And The Geto Boys' St. Ides Ad

  published Apr 19, 2011

  The usual moral outrage is greeting the recent unveiling of Blast, Colt 45's entry into the "alcopop" market heretofore dominated by Four Loko. At a mere 12 percent alcohol by volume, the fruit-in... More >>

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  Colt 45's Blast and The Geto Boys' St. Ides Ad

  published Apr 19, 2011

  Cue the moral outrage. Colt 45 is entering the "alcopop" market with its answer to Four Loko, Blast. At a mere 12 percent alcohol by volume, the fruit-infused brews are twice as strong as Colt 45,... More >>

• Notes from an Obscure Car Chase

  published Apr 19, 2011

  So last night I am cycling home, listening to Dan Carlin's Hardcore History podcast about the Red Army's sacking of Berlin. As I pedal up North Shepherd near the 11th Street Kroger, Carlin regaling me... More >>

• Bryan Fancher: Breaks Face of Good Samaritan Who Found Him Lying by East Texas Highway

  published Apr 19, 2011

  Last Friday afternoon, Duane and Delois Lout of Shelbyville were driving on Highway 103 East in rural Angelina County when they came upon an alarming sight: an apparently injured man lying in the road... More >>

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  UPDATED!: Hell Is the Harris County Admin Building

  published Apr 18, 2011

  Updated at the end of the story An Icelandic saga as written by Franz Kafka. That is the best way we can describe what happens when you attempt to register and transfer title to a car given to you ... More >>

• Aaron Pennington: Small-Town East Texas Bigwig Busted for Kiddy Porn

  published Apr 15, 2011

  UPDATE: Contrary to rumors, Pennington did not commit suicide, but he has now resigned his post on Grapeland City Council. Between the Grapeland police and the Texas Attorney General's office, Penni... More >>

• Troy Colt Griffin: Lost His Cellphone Full of Child Rape Pics

  published Apr 14, 2011

  EDITED: JANUARY 18 2012 When Troy Colt Griffin lost his cellphone in April of 2011, his horrid proclivities were discovered. The pervert used the device's camera function to take and store pictur... More >>

• Sunny San Leon Combines Rock Festival, Mayoral Election

  published Apr 14, 2011

  Deep in the last of the "R months," oyster season's coming to a close, and though it's not yet stiflingly hot, breezes off Galveston Bay are getting warmer by the day. What better time to head down to... More >>

• Robert Wayne Niffen: Carnie Fugitive Sex Offender Nabbed In Santa Fe

  published Apr 12, 2011

  Given two key facts, you could safely probably suppose that 52-year-old Robert Wayne Niffen was a miscreant of some sort. To wit: 1. His middle name is Wayne. 2. He is a carnie. And its Peace Offic... More >>

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  Lynde Chunn: Hard Luck East Texas Woman Dies On Cusp Of Personal Rebirth

  published Apr 12, 2011

  (Be warned. In ten years here at the Houston Press, we've seldom come across a story sadder than this one.) Lynde Chunn had a tough row to hoe for many of her 28 years. The Houston-born Caney Creek H... More >>

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  Hilton Kelley: Port Arthur Oil Refinery Activist Wins Huge Green Prize

  published Apr 12, 2011

  Ten years ago, by anyone's standard, Hilton Kelley was living the dream. Then just turning 40, he was in sunny California, having escaped his malodorous hometown of Port Arthur via the United States... More >>

• ATF, Military Called Out To Defuse East Texas Sparkler Bomb

  published Apr 08, 2011

  Two young East Texas women -- 25-year-old Candice Harris and 29-year-old Heather Horn, both of Bronson, Texas -- are charged with felonies after authorities caught them earlier this week with what the... More >>

• Another Alleged East Texas Trailer Park Gang Rape, This One Near Lufkin

  published Apr 07, 2011

  While the nation and the world are recoiling in horror from the alleged Cleveland trailer park gang rape, a similarly depraved tale in the town of Hudson (just outside of Lufkin) has yet to draw as mu... More >>

• Jean Pierre Mierau: Convicted Child Rapist on the Run from New Charges

  published Apr 07, 2011

  It was obvious that Jean Pierre Mierau could see the writing on the wall back on March 18, shortly after he had made $20,000 bail on two counts of online solicitation of a minor. The 35-year-old from ... More >>

• Houston Bike Paths: "Easing" Their Way to a Glorious Futurer

  published Apr 07, 2011

  About a year and a half ago, as a sidebar to an article we wrote on the perils of urban cycling here in Houston, we cast our battle-tested, road-weary eyes longingly toward the possibility of CenterPo... More >>

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  Street Scenes: Coolidge, Houston's Answer To Banksy

  published Apr 05, 2011

  Since hopping astride a bicycle a couple of years ago, my perception of Houston's physical landscape has altered utterly. No longer are my eyes subject to rivers of tail-lights and ceaseless processio... More >>

• Jessica Nicole Grays: Driving While Smashed on PCP with Infant in Car

  published Apr 04, 2011

  Driving while intoxicated is a very, very bad idea. Doing so with a one-year-old in the car is still worse. Driving while apparently knee-bucklingly high on PCP with an infant in the car takes the who... More >>