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Two Precinct One Harris County Constables have filed suit against Harris County and their immediate supervisor, Constable Kenneth Berry, successor to indicted former chief Jack Abercia. In both of t... More >>
A trip to the big city for an East Texas family turned into a nightmare when, according to investigators, an autistic 15-year-old boy was molested by an employee at a North Houston Conn's store. Acco... More >>
Panhandle politicos. Just when you think they can't get any crazier, they keep talking. Case in point: Lubbock County judge Tom Head. On Monday night, flanked by Lubbock County Commissioner Mark Hein... More >>
UPDATED AFTER THE JUMP....Two Rio Grande Valley women were jailed and a third is on the run after police accused the trio of beating and sexually assaulting a woman who "stole" one of their boyfriends... More >>
Ashley Nicole Richards has been a busy lady this year. Back on the Fourth of July, the 21-year-old southwest Houston resident was arrested in connection with a riot that erupted on the Brazos riverfro... More >>
Rumors of irony's death have been greatly exaggerated. Case in point: 47-year-old Arlon Wayne Hough. The Crockett man is currently in Houston County Jail, charged with aggravated assault of a family ... More >>
Score another coup for the newly famous East Texas town of Carthage: the town Richard Linklater, Jack Black and Sonny Carl Davis put on the map for its eccentric views on punishing murderers now has s... More >>
Thomas Caffall's mother told the media yesterday that she had been worried about her son's mental state, and from looking at his Facebook page, it's easy to see why. Having a right-wing gun nut in the... More >>
Let's get this straight right out of the gate: White Linen Night is fun, White Linen Night is great, White Linen Night is one of those rare times when the surprisingly stuffy Heights lets its hair dow... More >>
You have been duly warned. This is one pukesome tale, one of the grossest we have ever come across. Police in the Rio Grande Valley town of Rio Hondo arrested Juan Henoch Mejia on Wednesday and he ha... More >>
More evidence that Houston has arrived as a world-class city: It is now apparently the kind of town where you can get your hands on large quantities of opium. Yes, if Harris County Court records are ... More >>
Take it from someone who knows: British customs and immigration officials are a suspicious lot. Sometimes it's a major pain, like when they tear your bags apart for an hour in a fruitless search for d... More >>
Isaac Vela probably never knew what hit him. At 3 a.m. Sunday, the young Latin King was waiting for a ride on a barely paved street in front of a ramshackle house in the scraggly South Texas town. Sud... More >>
A Houston-bred attorney from a prominent local family wants to come home for the biggest day of his life: his upcoming 13-count federal racketeering trial. If the feds grant his change of venue reques... More >>
Twelve weeks into her pregnancy, Mary Ramos lost her baby. After undergoing a D&C procedure at Pasadena Bayshore Hospital to remove the remains, she and her husband Richard said they would like to hav... More >>
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San Antonio is in a tizzy. When officials from the Texas General Land Office okayed a plan to allow caterers to serve hooch at after-hours events at Alamo Hall, a repurposed 1922 fire station near but... More >>
From reading his most recent arrest affidavit, it looks like Darren Patrick Scheper had a good thing going there for a while. As his friends would later tell police, Scheper's hustle was to break into... More >>
We've said it before, we're saying it again, and, sadly, we are sure we will have to say it some more down the line: drunk driving is dumb and utterly irresponsible. Drunk driving with a kid aboard i... More >>
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When she woke, hungover and sore, around 2 or 3 p.m. on August 4, 2010, the 17-year-old's boyfriend Elric Shawn Millner said he had something to show her. According to court documents, these were vide... More >>
A series of gruesome cat killings in several Inner Loop neighborhoods has gotten the attention of Crimestoppers. The killings, which date back to 2009, have occurred in the River Oaks, Montrose, and ... More >>
Ladies and gentlemen, we have a new clubhouse leader in the Mugshot of the Year sweepstakes, not to mention another entrant in the list of idiots who don't know that leaving a dog in your car on a Tex... More >>
Harris County's and the State of Texas's beef with the Le Promenade condominium complex and its individual owners was temporarily settled in Harris County civil court on Monday morning. A few weeks b... More >>
Keystone Beer, a quartet of middle schoolers and 38-year-old Rosharon Lummus are a combustible combination, at least if what Anderson County authorities are saying is true. According to Tylerpaper.co... More >>
