Email Author John Nova Lomax

2012 Stories by John Nova Lomax

• Toshia McMurray: Clocked Hubby Eight Times with Cinder Block, Police Say

  published Jun 04, 2012

  A Bryan woman was jailed for much of the weekend after she was arrested in connection with the brick-beating of her husband's head. According to the Bryan-College Station Eagle, after Bryan police ar... More >>

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  Megabus Is Coming: A Buck Can Get You to the Big D, the Big Easy and the Alamo

  published May 31, 2012

  New Jersey-based express bus service Megabus is coming June 19, and you can already start booking $2 round-trips to Dallas, New Orleans and San Antonio. There will be 18 nonstop departures a day from ... More >>

• Cover Story: Gavel Comes Down Hard on H Gallery, Heidi Powell-Prera and Sandra Bernstein

  published May 31, 2012

  A little over a year ago, in "The Great Heights Art Heist," we brought you the story of H Gallery and the half-dozen or so artists who claimed to have been defrauded by owner Heidi Powell-Prera and Sa... More >>

• Stephanie Irene Santana, Allegedly Drunk & Pregnant: Clubhouse Leader in Bad Mom of the Year Stakes

  published May 30, 2012

  Houston police say that 20-year-old pregnant mother Stephanie Irene Santana was drunk early this morning when she left her infant in the car to go get a body piercing at a North Freeway tattoo parlor.... More >>

• In Memoriam: The Daily New Orleans Times-Picayune

  published May 28, 2012

  And so it has come to pass: A venerable and award-winning major metropolitan daily soon cease publishing every day. Last week, Newhouse Newspapers announced that this fall the 175-year-old New Orlea... More >>

• Houston 101: Will Hogg, Houston's Forgotten, Eccentric and Downright Badass Philanthropist

  published May 28, 2012

  What better time than Memorial Day to remember Will Hogg, the man who founded Memorial Parkr If that (and the Arboretum) was all Will Hogg gave Houston, that would rank as one of the grandest local l... More >>

• Nicholas Scott Grammer: Almost Dies on a Stolen Motorcycle, Swipes Another Weeks Later, Police Say

  published May 24, 2012

  From looking at his court records and two Facebook pages, it's clear that Nicholas Scott Grammer loves motorcycles. Unfortunately for the 22-year-old Deer Park native and everyone else in the Galvesto... More >>

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  Trinity Mugshot Round-Up Part Two: More of the Best in Texas

  published May 24, 2012

  The shutterbug jailhouse artistes up in the Lake Livingston-area town of Trinity have just unveiled their spring collection, and it's a feast for the eyes. As we've pointed out before, no jurisdictio... More >>

• ETX Family (Allegedly) Peddles Drugs Together and Goes to Jail Together

  published May 23, 2012

  Three members representing as many generations of an Angelina County family are behind bars there after the local sheriff's office caught them peddling pills, authorities say. According to a Lufkin D... More >>

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  The Intrepid Walker's Guide to Houston: A Sole of Houston Forerunner, Circa 1975

  published May 23, 2012

  (Part one of a planned series...) As the Preacher says, there's nothing new under the sun, and it turns out I was not the first Houstonian to write about adventures on long walks and/or bike rides in... More >>

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  Five Fun Things for Kids to Do in Houston in 1972 That Don't Seem Fun at All

  published May 21, 2012

  With school winding down, you might be wondering how you are going to amuse your idle whippersnappers all summer long. While it is no easy feat, you, the parents of 2012, should count yourselves luc... More >>

• Joshua Matthew Pierce: Con Man's Short, High-Flying Career Over

  published May 18, 2012

  Though his actions were sleazy in the extreme and hurt a lot of people, including some he was ostensibly close to, you've just got to hand it to Joshua Matthew Pierce. In a Waco federal court yester... More >>

• Cover Story: Houston's Ancient Baseball History Comes Alive

  published May 16, 2012

  For most local sports fans, baseball history begins with the Astrodome. Mention the old exploding scoreboard, beer-hawkers and their cries of "Coldest foam in the dome!" and Jose Cruuuuuuuuuuz and yo... More >>

• Hole-Y Trinity! Old Meth-in-the-Vadge Trick Fails for Third Time This Year in East Texas Town

  published May 15, 2012

  For the third time this year, police in Trinity, Texas, have busted a woman who tried to hide some crystal meth inside her vagina. We have to say that Karen Hale, the 22-year-old suspect in this case... More >>

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  State of Texas Alleges That Gang-Ridden Southwest Houston Condo Complex Is a Public Nuisance

  published May 15, 2012

  Claiming essentially that it is a wretched hive of scum and villainy, the State of Texas and Harris County are attempting to force a Southwest Houston condominium complex to clean up its act or shut d... More >>

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  San Benito Teacher Replaced After Bizarre Classroom Rant About Jesus, Mary Magdalene, UFOs & The Apocalypse

  published May 15, 2012

  A ninth-grade teacher at San Benito's Veterans Memorial High School has been replaced for the remainder of the year after her lesson plan went badly awry last Tuesday and her 12-minute rant was filme... More >>

• For Mother's Day: Five Very, Very Bad Candidates for Mom of the Year

  published May 11, 2012

  For at least some part of our lives, all of us have had a mother. Some are great, some are terrible, but most are in-between. But even if your mother was closer to Courtney Love than to Clair Huxtable... More >>

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  Jason Blain Wagner: Pawned Laptop Full of Child Porn, Then Scoffed at Terms of Probation, Police Say

  published May 04, 2012

  It's kind of amazing how regularly it happens -- a guy will pawn his laptop full of kiddy porn and then is amazed when the buyers somehow discover the disgusting footage and call the police. These d... More >>

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  Is Houston America's Future Bicycling Capitalr Tom McCasland Thinks It Is, and Is Making It So

  published May 03, 2012

  Tom McCasland has long believed that Houston is a sleeping giant of a bicycling city, and these days Houston appears to be waking up and stretching its legs. Today Yale Law grad McCasland serves as t... More >>

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  Destiny Adams and Kimberly Pierce: Two East Texas Women on Cutting Edge of "Keying Men's Trucks" Epidemicr

  published May 03, 2012

  As the furrow-browed detectives say in all those bad cop dramas, "Looks like we've got a pattern here." Criminal mischief. Lots of it. And of the felony kind. Two East Texas women have been arreste... More >>

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  Natalie Johnson: Stiff Sentence for East Texas Mom Who Sexed Teen Boy

  published May 02, 2012

  An Angelina County district court judge has brought the hammer down on a 33-year-old Diboll woman who was recently convicted of having sex with a 13-year-old boy. Despite a tearful apology and plea fo... More >>

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  Javier Garcia: Staggering DWI Charge for South Texas County Commissioner Candidate

  published May 02, 2012

  For politicos in some parts of this country, a single DWI conviction is enough to permanently derail a career. That's apparently not the case in South Texas, least of all Jim Wells County, where 53-y... More >>

• Robert and Deedra Grubbs: Middle-Aged Montgomery County Couple's Crime Wave Over

  published Apr 27, 2012

  A middle-aged Montgomery County couple is now behind bars after a brutal home invasion in The Woodlands followed by a horrific triple shooting in deep East Texas. Shelby County authorities believe t... More >>

• Travis Wayne Jones: Accused Sex Offender Nabbed After Ten Years on the Run

  published Apr 26, 2012

  A 50-year-old former Texan is currently awaiting extradition to East Texas in an Arkansas jail, where he was escorted earlier this week by United States Marshals. According to Tylerpaper.com, Smith C... More >>

• Kelly Wilson: East Texas Jailer / Author Charged with Inmate Sex

  published Apr 25, 2012

  Angelina County jailer and author Kelly Wilson has resigned her position and faces criminal charges after authorities in Lufkin alleged that she had a sexual relationship with a male inmate. Accordin... More >>