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Fort Bend County

  • Blogs

    April 3, 2012

    The Healthiest County in Texas Definitely Isn't Around Here

    The University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation have put together a list of health by county across the nation, looking at births, deaths and various measures of the quality of life. You can get a statewide ranking of the counties in your state, and if ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 9, 2012

    The Weather Outside Is Frightful (with Photos)

    You wanted rain, you're getting it. You're also getting a reported tornado touchdown in Fort Bend County and flooded service roads and intersections. Power is out in some areas of the city; others have lost internet service. Reports coming in from TxDOT and various tweeters indicated impassable c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 21, 2011

    Enjoy Our Playground!! Our Deadly, Alligator-Infested Playground

    Photo by Gary BeaverAh, playground memories!​Driving around the more rural parts of Fort Bend County, we found this playground tucked inside a subdivision. When you count your blessings, you might be grateful this isn't your childhood playground.

  • News

    August 4, 2011

    Star Chef Faces Child-Sex Charge

    Will plead insanity

  • Blogs

    July 26, 2011

    Grant Haze: Guy Who Allegedly Dismembered Ex-Wife Talks of Being Inspired By Sting & Lionel Richie

    Grant Haze wants to be an inspiration to his kids​Last week, Grant Haze was just another bland singer-songwriter with a tremendous ego and hoop earrings. Now he's charged with killing his ex-girlfriend, dismembering her corpse, stuffing the body parts in ice chests, and driving them from his N ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 26, 2011

    Former Tony's Chef Bruce McMillian Charged with Sexual Assault of a Minor

    Bruce McMillian, in his mugshot from Fort Bend County.​Although owner Jeff Vallone cited "a tough economy" when Amici closed in late last year, it appears that something much more sinister could be behind the Sugar Land restaurant's closing. Former chef Bruce McMillian is planning an insanity ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 19, 2011

    Comment of the Day: Almost a Ton of Pot Seized? No Biggie

    ​We have some great commenters here on Hair Balls, and it's time we paid some damn attention to them. So we'll be highlighting a Comment of the Day each morning, from the previous day's work. Maybe two comments, even. This will all be determined by a highly rigorous scientific formula involv ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 15, 2011

    That's a Whole Lotta Weed, Son: 1,700 Pounds of Marijuana Seized in Ft. Bend County

    "Mike" from the K-9 unit looking awfully smug...or stoned.​So, there you are, rolling down the highway in your tractor trailer filled with weed one minute, just minding your own business, and the next minute, you are busted by a drug sniffing dog. Mama said there'd be days like this. Apparent ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 26, 2011

    Rapper Tow Down, Others Arrested Yet Again for Growing Weed

    Tow Down in a familiar spot​Houston rapper Tow Down, who's been arrested before for using several Fort Bend County homes as weed greenhouses, has been nailed again. The U.S. Attorney's office has announced that "Bryan Andrew Theriot aka Toe Down, 33," (no rap points for the USAO), his brother ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 26, 2011

    Tow Down: Busted Rapper/Grower's Lyrical Tipoffs

    keepittrill.comTow Down (left) and Big Pokey​The Bubba Sparxxx of Fort Bend County, Tow Down, was arrested Wednesday for using three houses as weed nurseries, where he and several associates including his older brother cultivated more than 600 marijuana plants, the U.S. Attorney's office annou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 25, 2011

    SBOE Member Lawrence Allen Doesn't Live in the District

    Photo by Margaret DowningLawrence Allen (left)​Lawrence Allen Jr. might be convinced to the contrary, but the state agency that oversees redistricting confirms the seven-year member of the State Board of Education no longer lives within the boundaries of his own district. Allen is the voice o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 17, 2011

    Robin Jeanette Jordan: Sole Arrest So Far in Raid on Fort Bend Cul-de-Sac Cathouse

    Hookers in Pecan Grove. Who knew?​Apparently, pecans weren't the only nuts hanging in the Richmond, Texas suburb of Pecan Grove. Authorities based both there and here in Houston say that 37-year-old Robin Jeanette Jordan, a.k.a. "Lianna," has been involved in an Internet-based prostitution r ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 8, 2011

    Comment of the Day: Commuter Rail Makes Sense

    ​We have some great commenters here on Hair Balls, and it's time we paid some damn attention to them. So we'll be highlighting a Comment of the Day each morning, from the previous day's work. Maybe two comments, even. This will all be determined by a highly rigorous scientific formula involv ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 21, 2010

    Comment Of the Day: Ye Olde Sexual Double Standard

    ​We have some great commenters here on Hair Balls, and it's time we paid some damn attention to them. So we'll be highlighting a Comment of the Day each morning, from the previous day's work. Maybe two comments, even. This will all be determined by a highly rigorous scientific formula involv ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 21, 2010

    Seven Best Texas Sex Stories Of 2010

    Feel free to mess with Texans, apparently​'Twas the night before Chritmas, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring...except for an ex-surgeon with a suitcase full of dildos.That's just one of the Christmas tales parents can tell their young'ns as the year winds down. We now present ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2010

    Pool Battles In First Colony: Keep Your Damn Waterpark Out Of Here!!

    The First Colony Mall, gateway to a waterpark?​It's tense times out in First Colony, the Fort Bend County suburb.Residents are manning the barricades to prevent a plan by the community association to close five of First Colony's public swimming pools and build a $800,000 water park.An $800,000 wat ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2010

    In Ongoing Bat Invasion Of Texas, Terrifying New Theaters Of War Opened

    ​Two weeks ago today, in an nearly all-but-exclusive report, Hair Balls broke the story of the ongoing bat invasion of Texas schools and courthouses.At the time, the winged mammals had seized control of two schools in Clear Lake and one each in Chambers and Matagorda counties. They had also staked ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 3, 2009

    Dude, Where's My Air: More Fort Bend County Pot Follies

    What is it with Fort Bend County stoners these days? Why do they continue to reenact scenes from Cheech and Chong movies? Last week we brought you the tale of the unlucky East Bernard motorist whose simple pot possession charge was upgraded to felony evidence-tampering after he ate the joint he was ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 2, 2009

    A Wonderful New Pollution-Free Coal Plant In Fort Bend!! Well, Maybe

    ​NRG Energy, a redundantly named company in New Jersey, has announced plans to build a wonderful new space-age "carbon-capture" system at their coal plant in Fort Bend County.Well, they've announced plans to ask the federal government to pay for half the project, anyway.The carbon-capture system r ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 13, 2009

    From Black Prison To New Branch of The Houston Museum of Natural Science

    ​The Houston Museum of Natural Science is opening a new branch in Fort Bend County; the 43,000-square-foot HMNS at Sugar Land will open in October in a "historic prison building," according to the museum's official announcement.The new facility sounds nice -- four permanent exhibits mirroring the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 24, 2009

    Everyday He's Hustlin': Only 18, But He's Got A Bigger Multi-Media Empire than You

    Photo by Margaret Downing Well, there he was at a table in an H-E-B in Fort Bend County and he was peddling books, which is either the most naive or desperate or optimistic of things someone can do in a grocery store on a weekend. Actually, it was his book. Eighteen years old and an author -- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 12, 2009

    If You Live In The Boonies Of Fort Bend County, Beware The Rabid Skunks

    If you live in Needville or  "the unincorporated portion of Beasley," the Fort Bend County Health & Human Services Department is warning you to stay away from skunks.We've never quite lived in a place where people had to be warned to stay away from skunks, but then again we've never even be ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 6, 2009

    Hightower High Broadcast Academy Scores Another Grant

    This past January, when the Houston Press awarded its first-ever MasterMinds Awards to three local groups showing cutting edge creativity and determination, one of the recipients of a $2,000 check from us was the Hightower High School's Broadcast Academy, headed up by Ted Irving, the media academy c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2009

    After Six Months, Officials Throw In The Towel On That Fort Bend-Med Center Bus Service

    Back in September, with great fanfare and more than its share of glitches, officials from Fort Bend County and the Medical Center announced a new bus service for the estimated 14,000 people who worked in one place and lived in the other.Today the dream died.Fort Bend County Commissioners Court accep ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 3, 2008

    Fort Bend Transit Has A Charmingly Naive Trust In Its Customers

    Back in September, with great fanfare and more than its share of glitches, officials from Fort Bend County and the Medical Center announced a new bus service for the estimated 14,000 people who worked in one place and lived in the other.Today the dream died.Fort Bend County Commissioners Court accep ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 29, 2008

    Early Voting in Fort Bend County

    Back in September, with great fanfare and more than its share of glitches, officials from Fort Bend County and the Medical Center announced a new bus service for the estimated 14,000 people who worked in one place and lived in the other.Today the dream died.Fort Bend County Commissioners Court accep ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2007

    Music at the Y, Minus the Village People

    Back in September, with great fanfare and more than its share of glitches, officials from Fort Bend County and the Medical Center announced a new bus service for the estimated 14,000 people who worked in one place and lived in the other.Today the dream died.Fort Bend County Commissioners Court accep ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 23, 2007

    Ft. Bend's Homeless Youth

    Back in September, with great fanfare and more than its share of glitches, officials from Fort Bend County and the Medical Center announced a new bus service for the estimated 14,000 people who worked in one place and lived in the other.Today the dream died.Fort Bend County Commissioners Court accep ... More >>

  • News

    February 22, 2007

    Homeless in Suburbia

    Michael Lyddon slept on this bench at night because he had nowhere else to go. According to elected officials in Fort Bend, though, he doesn't exist

  • Blogs

    February 21, 2007

    We Hear Houston Is Lovely. Have You Tried There?

    Michael Lyddon slept on this bench at night because he had nowhere else to go. According to elected officials in Fort Bend, though, he doesn't exist

  • Dining

    February 15, 2007

    Who Is Sylvia?

    A chef who loves Karl's on the Riverbend and Freddie Fender

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2007

    Soggy Socks, Anyone?

    A chef who loves Karl's on the Riverbend and Freddie Fender

  • Best of Houston

    September 28, 2006

    AFRICAN SOUNDS TAPES, CDS AND VIDEOS

    Other record stores have bitten the dust, but not this one

  • Blogs

    July 24, 2006

    So Much for Waterfront Views

    Other record stores have bitten the dust, but not this one

  • 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

    April 13, 2006

    Baby, Please Don't Go

    It's not too late to keep the Hammer

  • Calendar

    March 25, 2004

    Branching Out

    A new tree house exhibition will have you out on a limb

  • 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 28, 2001

    Naked Shame

    Years ago, courts ruled that routine strip searches in jails were unconstitutional. But for Fort Bend County women, if you got booked, they took a look.

  • News

    October 5, 2000

    A Father's Retribution

    Children's Protective Services thinks Gary Gates abuses his kids. Gary Gates thinks CPS abused his family. Who's abusing who?

  • News

    September 28, 2000

    Rubber Fetish

    Glory days for KHOU and Anna Werner

  • News

    April 20, 2000

    Deep Six

    Corps beliefs about wetlands stall TxDOT's paving plans

  • News

    March 23, 2000

    Not Your Grandma's Girl Scouts

    Rachelle Anderson just took super Girl Scout honors. And it wasn't hustling cookies that got her there.

  • News

    January 1, 1998

    Alison Cook looks back at 1997: The Year That Bit

    Rachelle Anderson just took super Girl Scout honors. And it wasn't hustling cookies that got her there.

  • News

    November 6, 1997

    The Mall That Ate Katy

    Big money, big lobbyists, big tax breaks. The Mills Corporation is bringing one of its "megamalls" to Katy, and it's hardly business as usual in the little town on the prairie.

  • Calendar

    May 1, 1997

    Press Picks

    Big money, big lobbyists, big tax breaks. The Mills Corporation is bringing one of its "megamalls" to Katy, and it's hardly business as usual in the little town on the prairie.

  • Calendar

    September 26, 1996

    Press Picks

    Big money, big lobbyists, big tax breaks. The Mills Corporation is bringing one of its "megamalls" to Katy, and it's hardly business as usual in the little town on the prairie.

  • Calendar

    September 5, 1996

    Press Picks

    Big money, big lobbyists, big tax breaks. The Mills Corporation is bringing one of its "megamalls" to Katy, and it's hardly business as usual in the little town on the prairie.

  • News

    March 14, 1996

    The Avenging Exterminator

    Why the House majority whip got involved in the Fort Bend sheriff's race

  • News

    February 15, 1996

    Letters

    Why the House majority whip got involved in the Fort Bend sheriff's race

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