Tracey Deel was shot a dozen times by two teens who wanted her car. She dragged herself the length of three football fields determined not to be just another homocide statistic.
Photo courtesy GHVCBEvery time there's a "homeless sweep" in downtown Houston, a local historian will trot out the old legend about Hermann Square. Supposedly, George Hermann willed to the City of Houston the land that had once been occupied by his boyhood home (and now sprawls at the foot of City Hall) as a park, albeit with an eccentric stipulation.To wit, Houstonians in perpetuity were to be allowed to sleep off drunks there "undisturbed by the forces of law and order." Legend has it that som
Just before 4 pm Tuesday, according to Houston police, Pedro Enrique-Garcia Rosabal, 34, called his wife to say he'd just picked their two kids up from summer school and was going to kill them. Turns out Rosabal made good on his threat, shooting his 8-year-old daughter and 6-year-old son with a .380 semi-automatic in his Lexus before turning the gun on himself, police say. The two children were pronounced dead at the scene, in the parking lot of an apartment complex at 6110 Fairdale. Rosabal was
The Texas Tribune, the new non-profit journalism operation headed by former Texas Monthly editor Evan Smith, had some big news yesterday: They'd received a $500,000 donation from the Houston Endowment.The gift will go a long ways toward -- Say what now? The Houston Endowment is getting back in the journalism business?The last time they did that, they owned the Houston Chronicle, and the list of sacred cows that were protected and coddled by order of the Endowment was lengthy and inviolate.Longti
