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Brazoria County

  • Blogs

    July 18, 2011

    James Blackstock: Former Judge Hit with $3.2 Million Verdict for Sexual Harassment

    A little bit of civil justice for a judge.​We've written before about James Blackstock, the former big-deal Brazoria County court-at-law judge who liked to fondle his employees' breasts when he wasn't sending porno via e-mail and text. He's been off the bench since 2008, when he pleaded guilt ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 24, 2011

    Our List of Weird Criminal Names, Part Three: The Recent Alvin Walmart Vigilante Case Was Full of Them

    Not this Lawless, but also a fighter.​News of the Walmart Wahoo Vigilante rang out far and wide over the Houston area the other day, but in case you missed it, here's the story in a nutshell: Three brothers walked out of an Alvin Walmart with three cases of beer they allegedly neglected to pay ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2011

    William McRaven, UT Journalism Grad, SEAL Boss: Five Stories He Might Have Written As a Cub Reporter

    How many units responded to the fire, McRaven?​As we noted yesterday, Admiral William McRaven, the head of Special Ops who commanded the raid that got Osama bin Laden, is a University of Texas grad with a degree in journalism. Like many cub reporters, he decided his journalism skills would be ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 3, 2011

    Rachelle Renee Price LOVES Getting Her Jail Mugshot Taken

    Brazoria County SO​You thought Tom DeLay was smiling in his police mugshot? He was an abject depressive compared to Rachelle Renee Price. Price was picked up in Pearland Sunday for trying to pass some forged checks at a grocery store, KPRC reports, and she was taken to the Brazoria County Jai ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 1, 2011

    8-Liner Crackdown Brings Grief to the Mathematically Impaired

    Nancy Donalson: One of the alleged ringleaders​Houston cops have arrested five people after a lengthy undercover operation found they were running a lucrative 8-liner operation in several area locations. Police say they seized "$1.5 million dollars in currency, nearly $200,000 in bank account ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 15, 2011

    Life in Prison With No Parole for Man Who Impregnated His 11-Year-Old Stepdaughter

    Home for the rest of this sex offender's life​A sentence has come down in the case of a Brazoria County man who impregnated his 11-year-old stepdaughter, and it's a steep one: Life in prison with no chance of parole. KTRK, which broke the story and has been following it, says a judge handed d ... More >>

  • News

    February 3, 2011

    Dead Center

    Bad things keep happening to people in Shawn Roberts's orbit.

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2011

    Ron Paul for Senate: New Poll Says Texans Demand It

    Ron Paul: Let the campaign begin!​As America faces the challenges of the 21st century, it is safe to say it needs as many Pauls in the Senate as possible. And we're not talking first names, either. Texas, it seems, agrees. A new poll from PPP shows Texans are demanding that Kay Bailey Hutchi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 1, 2010

    Top 5 Uses for Leftover Halloween Candy

    blog.beliefnet.comIt's November 1 and you're knee deep in Halloween candy. Now what? ​You bought a ton of candy but forgot to turn on the porch light. Sugar transforms your sweet, little angel into the Anti-Christ. You're on a diet. Although it's difficult to imagine, we realize that not every ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 7, 2010

    Janet Cox Worked For A Judge, Until She Supported His Electoral Opponent

    Campaigning against your boss?​Most people who don't like their boss are able to keep it to themselves, silently wishing plagues upon him or her, or maybe venting to a trusted co-worker. But Janet Cox says she was fired from her job as a Brazoria County court coordinator when she supported the opp ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 24, 2010

    Texans-Cowboys Isn't Until Sunday, Spend Your Saturday Morning Cleaning The Beaches

    Do it for the crabs.​Tomorrow morning, rain or shine, thousands of Texans across the 367 miles of state coastline will take to the sand, gloves on and plastic bags in hand. Call it a goodbye and thank you to summer, and hello fall.Groups will be gathering at 28 sites at 9 a.m. for the annual Adopt ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 22, 2010

    Genius: To Prove He Doesn't Have An Alligator Skull, Dude Shows Lawmen His Dope Crop

    "Officer, check my dope crop to make sure I don't have an alligator skull!!!"​An Angleton dude was selling alligator meat illegally online, which triggered a sting by Texas Parks & Wildlife Department authorities.As they negotiated the sale, the guy mentioned he also had an alligator skull he ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 16, 2010

    Confessed Killer Nicholas-Michael Edwin Jean: Using A Cops Episode To Avoid The Death Penalty

    Photo courtesy HCSODon't bame me, I was once on Cops​Nicholas-Michael Edwin Jean has confessed to killing a woman in a carjacking (and to having a whole lot of first names); he's currently in the process of trying to get a life sentence instead of the death penalty.Part of his plea to the jury: I ... More >>

  • News

    May 13, 2010

    Right-Wing Porn

    Blogger disseminates filth.

  • Blogs

    April 30, 2010

    Carrie Kelly Might Not Be One Of The Rare Female Child-Porn Dealers, But Her Mugshot Ain't Helping Her Case

    Brazoria County SOCarrie Kelly, accused child-porn fan, rocking the tats​It's not everyday you get word of a woman being nabbed on child-porn charges, especially a woman allegedly working on her own and not with a sicko husband or boyfriend.But in the small Brazoria County town of Richwood, police ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2010

    Undercover Narc Nails Big Bust At Rural High School

    ​West Columbia is about 45 miles southwest of here; don't feel too bad if you haven't heard of it. The Brazoria County town has about 4,300 residents, 16 of whom are facing drug charges after an undercover operation in the local high school.A school-district cop went undercover at the school in Ja ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 23, 2009

    Be Careful Handling The Books In The Clute Library

    ​They're pissing on the library books in Clute.KTRK reports that vandals have been hitting the library recently, and residents are scratching their heads about it all."It just shows you where we are in the world today," one patron said.The station offered no information on exactly which books were ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 23, 2009

    A Lottery Winner And A County Judge Candidate Equals A Reprimand

    Oopsie, Peggy Sue, you've got some 'splaining to do. Brazoria County judge wannabe Peggy Sue Bittick, a family court attorney in Pearland, violated a Texas State Bar rule when she failed to return more than $7,000 to a client who had paid her in advance to represent him in a child custody case. Th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 20, 2009

    Texas Traveler: Angleton's Mysterious House of the Century

    It all started with an obsession. And a blog post. The House of the Century was built in 1972 by the Ant Farm Art Collective, a group that included architects Richard Jost, a then-recent graduate of the University of Houston, and Doug Michels, founder of the collective and professor at UofH. (Ant ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 19, 2009

    Ron Paul, Bravely Standing Up Against The Iranian Revolutionaries

    Photo by fixermarkCongress, which has nothing better to do than pass non-binding, feel-good resolutionsthat will have no effect, did just that today with a vote on a bill "Expressing support for all Iranian citizens who embrace the values of freedom, human rights, civil liberties, and rule of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 11, 2009

    Ron Paul, Crusading Against All Pork But His

    Photo courtesy Ron PaulOf all the Republicans in the US House of Representatives, who do you think has the most earmarks in the omnibus spending bill? Some RINO from up north?Nah. It's our own Ron Paul, stalwart criticizer of government spending (that's not in his district.)Fox News is touting the s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 11, 2009

    Pearland Gets The State's Newest Superfund Site! Take That, Pasadena!

    There's an ugly mess of chemicals in the groundwater on the south side of Pearland. The contamination is severe enough that the abandoned tank farm has become the latest addition to the state's Superfund Registry.This is no surprise to nearby residents, some of whom are being given bottled water ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 29, 2009

    Oldies, And Not Goodies, On The Pollution Front

    The wheels of environmental justice move ever so slowly. To call it a snail's pace would be an insult to mollusks everywhere. But it is what is, as we say in the parlance of our times, so now we have the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality assessing penalties against two local polluters for ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2008

    Never Been To A Gun Raffle? Head To Manvel

    The wheels of environmental justice move ever so slowly. To call it a snail's pace would be an insult to mollusks everywhere. But it is what is, as we say in the parlance of our times, so now we have the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality assessing penalties against two local polluters for ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 29, 2008

    Judge (No, Not That One) Pleads Guilty To Sexual Assault

    The wheels of environmental justice move ever so slowly. To call it a snail's pace would be an insult to mollusks everywhere. But it is what is, as we say in the parlance of our times, so now we have the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality assessing penalties against two local polluters for ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 14, 2008

    Ornery, Possibly Horny Brazoria Judge in Trouble

    The wheels of environmental justice move ever so slowly. To call it a snail's pace would be an insult to mollusks everywhere. But it is what is, as we say in the parlance of our times, so now we have the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality assessing penalties against two local polluters for ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2008

    The New Ron Paul Autobiography -- Whether You Want It Or Not

    The wheels of environmental justice move ever so slowly. To call it a snail's pace would be an insult to mollusks everywhere. But it is what is, as we say in the parlance of our times, so now we have the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality assessing penalties against two local polluters for ... More >>

  • News

    June 5, 2008

    ConocoPhillips, Art Car Shenanigans and Concrete Canoes

    Panic for ConocoPhillips' stockholders

  • News

    September 13, 2007

    Cold Case

    Woman found dead 17 years ago in Manvel remains unidentified

  • News

    March 29, 2007

    Houston Astros, Netflix, Congressman Ron Paul

    It could be a year of despair for Astros fans

  • News

    August 31, 2006

    Reliantly Unhelpful

    The abyss of customer service gets deeper

  • News

    August 10, 2006

    Ugly and Slow

    A booster has been messing up downtown for years

  • News

    May 25, 2006

    Gator Aid

    Thanks to the Endangered Species Act, alligators are everywhere in southeast Texas. So now the state is going to make it easier for you to shoot you one.

  • News

    September 9, 2004

    Six Feet Blunder

    Bring out your dead -- and wait

  • News

    November 6, 2003

    A Hard-on for Numbers

    The Chron tries to stay, uh, abreast of circulation counts

  • News

    April 24, 2003

    Letters

    The Chron tries to stay, uh, abreast of circulation counts

  • News

    April 10, 2003

    Letters

    The Chron tries to stay, uh, abreast of circulation counts

  • News

    March 27, 2003

    Fostering Abuse

    Did something go very wrong at Gloria and Kenny Rogers’s group home in Brazoria County? Or are they and their kids victims of a power-hungry CPS?

  • News

    August 8, 2002

    Banjo Blues

    A Chronicle writer gets canned for running a Web site

  • News

    September 13, 2001

    Not Worth A Dam

    Clear Creek is on the rise, and local flood-protection methods have been helpless against it. Soggy residents, tired of being perpetual victims, are ready for a fight.

  • News

    July 12, 2001

    Up a Creek

    Diverting streams into the Brazos and Posh Amenity lakes has been great for fancy Fort Bend developments. But it's killing Oyster Creek, the lifeblood for legendary Texas cattle ranchers.

  • News

    June 14, 2001

    Raw Roots

    Excavations for plantation artifacts - and the real truth - are unraveling the genteel gloss covering Texans' old notions about the slave era here

  • News

    July 13, 2000

    This Sand is Your Sand

    At the Village of Surfside, it's not just the beaches that are eroding. It's the Open Beaches Act.

  • News

    June 29, 2000

    A Yenne for Your Thoughts

    Brazoria's D.A. raises privacy issues over DPS emissions tests

  • News

    March 18, 1999

    Farm to Market

    Kody Ellis shows pigs. What have pigs shown him?

  • News

    June 11, 1998

    The Special Needs of Frank Gonzales Jr.

    The Texas parole board let him out to die; instead, he got involved in a killing.

  • News

    January 1, 1998

    Alison Cook looks back at 1997: The Year That Bit

    The Texas parole board let him out to die; instead, he got involved in a killing.

  • News

    December 25, 1997

    Changing the Channel

    For years, homeowners, developers, environmentalists and the federal government have wrangled over a flood-control plan for Clear Creek. Now a compromise is in view -- but the creek's future is murkier than ever.

  • News

    August 1, 1996

    Among Friends

    Buster Brown's financial disclosure includes an interesting omission -- and addition

  • News

    December 28, 1995

    Making a Killing

    Double dipping, understaffing plague the M.E.'s office

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