Email Author John Nova Lomax

2012 Stories by John Nova Lomax

• Colton Meszaros: Kingwood Teen in Trouble Again, This Time for Wrecking a Golf Course

  published Jul 03, 2012

  Last spring, the placid cul-de-sacs of Kingwood were atwitter with news of what seemed like an awful crime. It looked like their kids had run amok. A minivan was set on fire and utterly destroyed in... More >>

• Lenwood Johnson: Trying to Save a Last Shred of Freedmen's Town History

  published Jul 03, 2012

  And so, after all these years of condofication, it has come to this: one last row of shotgun houses in the Fourth Ward. The transformation from funky and proud Freedmen's Town to go-go, oontz-oontz Mi... More >>

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  "Alleged Feces" in Lufkin Dollar General Store Likely Came from Woman and not "Large Animal"

  published Jul 02, 2012

  On entering a storeroom at a Lufkin Dollar General store, an employee was shocked, dismayed and appalled to find the floor dotted with a pile or piles of what KTRE has described as "a 'large animal am... More >>

• Crustacean Combat Sends Two Beaumont Women (Ages 70, 23) to Hospital with Gunshot Wounds

  published Jun 29, 2012

  Initial reports out of the Golden Triangle said that two women -- one 70, and the other 23, neither identified -- were shot during the course of a heated argument about crawfish. Those reports were i... More >>

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  Jenna Hernandez: Another Teen Girl Murdered in Corpus Area; Police Say It's Probably Not Related to Nearby Olgin/Chapa Shootings

  published Jun 29, 2012

  As the whole world now knows, on Saturday morning, 19-year-old Mollie Olgin and 18-year-old Mary Kristene Chapa were found shot in a Portland park at the edge of Corpus Christi Bay. Olgin died. Chapa ... More >>

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  Tyler Gleason: The Messianic Facebook Manifesto of the Man Who Allegedly Left His Baby in the Sun on FM 1960

  published Jun 28, 2012

  Along with his wife, Tonya Gleason, Houstonian homeless advocate Tyler Gleason was arrested yesterday and charged with child endangerment. Harris County Sheriff's deputies say that the couple left t... More >>

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  Glendon Bruening: Farm Worker Shoots Wad at Man Who Sexted His Wife

  published Jun 27, 2012

  Who knew the wheat fields of the Panhandle were so rife with lust and passionr Call this story 50 Sheaves of Wheat. Per Connectamarillo.com, Ochiltree County sheriff Terry Bouchard said that 61-year... More >>

• Kenneth Carnley: Allegedly Beats Disabled Woman Who Offered Him Dinner After Mowing His Lawn

  published Jun 27, 2012

  "People call me a lot of things love, but they'll never accuse me of bein' a mothafuckin' gentleman." -- Willie D. of the Geto Boys, 1991 Twenty-one years after Willie D. rapped those lines, and elab... More >>

• Amber Schmidt: Second Female Metroplex Child Porn Fan This Month

  published Jun 26, 2012

  WTF is in the water in DFW these daysr Three weeks ago we brought you the story of Erika Perdue, the wealthy attorney's wife who allegedly confessed to amassing, over a period of many years, a huge ... More >>

• Adrian Avalos: Feline Yowls Foil Alleged Attempt at Deed Most Foul

  published Jun 26, 2012

  An alleged Carancahua Drive cat burglar was foiled by the meowing cries of a coterie of Corpus Christi kitty cats, police there said. According to a CCPD press release, a woman was washing dishes aro... More >>

• Houston 101: The Battle of Jones Creek, 188 Years Ago Today

  published Jun 22, 2012

  There aren't that many Indian battles in Houston's history, but on this date in 1824, a vicious little skirmish took place pitting Karankawas against Stephen F. Austin's settlers in Brazoria County. ... More >>

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  Jesus Christ Anthony Turner: Hauled in by Houston Cops on Aggravated Robbery Charge

  published Jun 21, 2012

  According to Houston Police, on June 18, Jesus Christ Anthony Turner pointed a gun at a man and robbed him. Since the alleged offense took place while the 27-year-old South Park resident was free on... More >>

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  Ashley Rae Ortega, 26: Busted For Sexual Assault of 14-Year-Old Boy

  published Jun 21, 2012

  A 26-year-old Killeen woman with ties to the Houston area has been charged with sexually assaulting a 14-year-old boy. According to KXXV, Ashley Rae Ortega is an acquaintance of the boy's family, and... More >>

• Cover Story: Preppers Ready Themselves for When the Shit Hits the Fan

  published Jun 20, 2012

  Preparing for Doomsday is as venerably American as cherry pie. Mormonism, America's most successful homegrown religion, even has hoarding food as one of its tenets. Some prep for a biblical Armageddo... More >>

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  When the Sh*t Hits the Fan

  published June 21, 2012

  Check out our pictures of moderate preppers living... More >>

• Frank "The Tank" Stortini: Flashes Four Kids and Issues Weird Challenge, Police Claim

  published Jun 19, 2012

  A College Station roofer has been charged with four counts of indecency with a child by exposure after police claimed that the man exposed his penis to four children at an apartment complex swimming p... More >>

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  Valerie Trevino and Vanessa Morin: Lead Police on Chase With Five Preschoolers in Car

  published Jun 18, 2012

  Well, it's not quite Thelma and Louise Plus 8, but it's close. According to the Corpus Christi Caller-Times, two women were arrested last week after leading police on a short car chase. Once 20-year... More >>

• Charles Lee Bergeron Sr.: 80-Year-Old Child Molester Said He Blew Boys Because He Needed Testosterone

  published Jun 15, 2012

  The prosecutor in his case called Charles Lee Bergeron Sr. "the sickest of the sick," a monster whose "fun house became a house of horror" for the many young boys he victimized, and from the details t... More >>

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  For Flag Day: America's 10 Best State Flags

  published Jun 14, 2012

  As all you vexillologists out there know so well, it's Flag Day again: the most wonderful day of the year. Last year's drought and intense heat put us in a sour mood, so we raked ten of the worst sta... More >>

• Torina Ann Gutierrez: Busted After First-Grade Daughter Eats Angel Dust Sandwich at School

  published Jun 12, 2012

  Teachers and staff at Popham Elementary in Del Valle had rarely seen one of their pupils acting so strangely and alarmingly. According to the Austin American-Statesman, on May 4, the six-year-old fir... More >>

• Alfonzo Dewayne Anthony: Second Exemplar of East Texas Tattoo Artistry to Hit Jails This Week

  published Jun 08, 2012

  The fine art of East Texas tattoo artistry is rockin' it this week. Earlier, we brought you the story of Jonathan Thompson, the Trinity man in the Trinity jail with the tat suggesting that Trinity Cou... More >>

• Lewis Scholten Jr.: Trailer Park Party King, Awesome Facebooker Busted for Murder

  published Jun 08, 2012

  A trailer park stabbing just off Rockport's Monkey Drive has led one man to the cemetery and another to the Aransas County Detention Center. According to KRIS-TV, early Monday morning 26-year-old Mat... More >>

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  FELA! at Jones Hall: An Immortal Feast

  published Jun 06, 2012

  If ever a show's name deserved the all-caps, exclamation mark treatment, FELA! is it. Both the man and the multiple-Tony Award-winning musical about him are larger than life, spectacles equally spirit... More >>

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  Erika Perdue: Feds Bust Dallas "Socialite" for Huge Hoard of Child Porn

  published Jun 05, 2012

  In a story so stunning and disturbing it's taken the Hair Balls Crime Bureau four days to summon the gumption to write up, a wealthy 41-year-old Dallas woman has been arrested and charged with possess... More >>

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  Two Men Take Roak to Court, Each Claiming Assaults on Premises of Upper Kirby Lounge

  published Jun 05, 2012

  Roak, the former Upper Kirby funeral home turned trendy, South Beach-esque oontz-oontz lounge, was taken to court twice last month. Alleged assaults on the premises figure in both cases. On May 23, a... More >>