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  • Blogs

    October 21, 2011

    Mary Ann Rivera. 76 And On An Oxygen Tank, Arrested For 1970 Murder Of Her Husband

    Photo by HPDMary Ann Rivera: Back in Houston to face 1970 murder charges​Mary Ann Rivera is 76 and was living in a small Georgia town, hooked up to an oxygen tank and pretty much keeping to herself. Until cops showed up at her door this week to arrest her for killing her husband 41 years ago ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 20, 2011

    Steven A. Hobbs: A Modern Jack the Ripper?

    Photo by HCSOSteven Hobbs: Possible serial killer of hookers​Harris County Sheriff's investigators say they think a security guard who wanted to be a cop might have been a serial killer who terrorized prostitutes. Steven A. Hobbs, 40, is already in jail on charges of capital murder, aggravate ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 26, 2011

    Donald Griffin, 28, Bayou Body Count No. 110

    "Person of interest" arrested wearing body armor​A man was shot to death in a southside apartment complex early Saturday morning, police say. A "person of interest" has been arrested after a brief SWAT stand-off in which he was found to be wearing body armor. Glenn Terrance Sherman, 28, has n ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 26, 2011

    HPD Seeks Smiling Woman in Connection With Nursing-Home Death

    Won't you smile for the camera?​This chipper-looking woman, caught on a security cam, is being sought by Houston police in connection with the May 8 death of a man in an assisted-living center. Willie Hightower, 66, was found dead in his room at the center in the 600 block of East Tidwell ami ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 16, 2011

    Unidentified Headless Man, Bayou Body Count No. 64

    Texas chainsaw murder​The headless, dismembered body of a man was found in a vacant east side house last night, and police are questioning several witnesses. The unidentified man's arm was cut off; a chainsaw was found nearby, a bag of body parts, including the head was found hidden nearby at ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2011

    Jose Zerate Brings (Sex) Toys to Meet Kids at Hotel, Cops Say

    KPRCJose Zerate: Wrong kind of toys.​A man who met a woman online and insisted she bring along two young children she babysat to a hotel rendezvous arrived on the scene carrying sex toys and was arrested, KPRC is reporting. A spokesperson for the Harris County District Attorney's Office tells ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2011

    Khaled M. Leverages Hip-Hop To Raise Consciousness For Libya

    ​Perhaps Chicago-based, Kentucky-raised rapper Khaled M. should've made a hip-hop anthem for his home state's Wildcats as they made a run for the Final Four. Like Wiz Khalifa's "Black and Yellow" for the Pittsburgh Steelers, a "Blue and White" remix could have caught fire. Ashley Judd might ha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 21, 2011

    Norma Jean Clark: Investigators Say Bloodied Shirt Solves Murder

    Norma Jean Clark's bloodied shirt may have implicated her in her husband's murder.​Investigators say they've solved a cold-case murder that's been frozen solid for the last 23 years, and a bloody shirt was the key piece of evidence. In 1987, when Edmund High Clark was found shot dead in his head ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 18, 2011

    Norma Jean Clark: Sheriff's Deputies Arrest Her for Murdering Her Husband 23 Years Ago

    Franklin County SONorma Jean Clark, accused of murdering her husband in 1987​Back in April 1987, when Edmund High Clark was found dead in his bedroom from a shot to the head and one in the back, his wife Norma Jean said she'd been sleeping in another room and was awakened by the shots. She fl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 24, 2011

    HFD Hit Yet Again With Harassment Complaint, This Time by a Hispanic Firefighter

    Another companit against the Houston Fire Department​Just a week after the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sided with a Houston firefighter's charges she was harassed, HFD was hit with another embarrassing allegation of firehouse misconduct. In a press conference today, a Hisp ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 6, 2010

    Greg Abbott Goes After Google. Next: Justin Bieber, Lindsay Lohan and Lady Gaga

    Lady Gaga: Greg Abbott will get to the bottom of this, even if it means headlines​Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has gotten a lot of ink with his investigation into Google's search rankings.Abbott usually spends his time on right-wing causes like fighting the Obama health-care plan or battling ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2010

    Roger Clemens: Ex-Red Sox GM Jumps On The Steroids Bandwagon

    The smell of indictments in the air...​I'll admit that I've taken my share of potshots at Roger Clemens. I've tried to rely on matters that have been part of some record, or have some evidence for support, like The Mitchell Report, Clemens' public statements, and things said to Congressional inves ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 12, 2010

    Juan Tejeda & Jorge Magdeleno: After Living Quietly For 16 Years, Arrested On Murder Charges

    Sixteen years later, caught​Another week, another cold-case arrest in Houston.This time it was two men who had been on the run since participating in a gang murder back in 1994, officials say.Jorge Carlos Tejeda, 33 and Jorge Tejeda Magdeleno, 35, were quietly arrested July 7, Tejeda at the tire s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2010

    Cesar Manuel Cazares: Nabbed For A Stabbing Death 21 Years Later

    A 2009 kidnapping case breaks a 1989 murder​Score one for the cold-case squad at the Houston Police Department -- they've announced the arrest of a man suspected of stabbing a romantic rival to death 21 years ago.Cesar Manual Cazares, 42, is accused of killing Leonides Ponce, then 27, back i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2010

    Breaking: Metro To Have Outsiders Investigate Chief's Alleged "Inappropriate Relationship"

    They seem to be circling the wagons at Metro. This release just came out: METRO Chairman David S. Wolff announced that he has asked UHY Advisors, a global business advisory and consulting company, to conduct an independent investigation into allegations that public funds were misused at METRO becaus ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 21, 2009

    Cold-Case Arrest Of An Obvious Suspect Might Solve 29-Year-Old Murder

    Photo courtesy HCSO​On March 26, 1980, Glen Clary reportedly took up a game of pool with a guy named Wilmer Joe Nichols at an east Harris County bar called the Maverick Club. Nichols had been flashing a wad of money. The two men allegedly left the club together, and Nichols' body was found later, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 18, 2009

    Bad Santa: Clear Lake Shores Saint Nick Accused Of Indecency With Child

    ​Last week 45-year-old Glenn Roy Klusendorf was Santa Claus at a Clear Lake Shores farmers market. This week, he is an inmate in Galveston County Jail, where he sits charged with indecency with a child, sexual contact and sexual exposure.Klusendforf, who was arrested at the Clear Lake Shores home ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 13, 2009

    Teachers Are (Allegedly) Sexing It Up At Spring High School

    ​Here's a letter no high school principal wants to write: "Hey parents! One of our teachers was getting it on with a student. Oh and, hey, you know, while I've got your attention and everything, one of our other teachers is being investigated for the same thing. Go Lions!!!"That's not quite the wo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 2, 2009

    Chron Leaves Out Key Detail From Story On Sailor's Death

    A Houston sailor was killed at Camp Pendleton in San Diego Tuesday.Here, verbatim, is the version of the AP report the Houston Chronicle is running on it: Houston sailor killed at Camp PendletonCAMP PENDLETON, Calif. -- Navy officials say the death of a 29-year-old Camp Pendleton sailor is being inv ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 12, 2009

    Miguel Tejada Offers Scant Contrition, Scurries Away Like Scalded Dog

    Photo by lisaschafferphotoThere there, little soldier. Miguel Tejada faced the press yesterday and took the coward's way out. Crying and stumbling over his words, Tejada confessed his sorrow for not telling Congressional investigators that he knew of another player that took steroids. Tejada and h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 12, 2009

    Miguel Tejada Offers Scant Contrition, Scurries Away Like Scalded Dog

    Photo by lisaschafferphotoThere there, little soldier. Miguel Tejada faced the press yesterday and took the coward's way out. Crying and stumbling over his words, Tejada confessed his sorrow for not telling Congressional investigators that he knew of another player that took steroids. Tejada and h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 16, 2009

    Tejada's Turn Under the Grand Jury Microscope

    When word came out that a grand jury had been convened to investigate Roger Clemens, Houston Astros owner Drayton McLane asked him to not come to the Astros camp for spring training. I wonder if Drayton is going to ask the same thing of Miguel Tejada. Because it is now being reported that the Fed ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 26, 2008

    Bryan City Officials Trying To Star In Their Own Version of

    If you're a cop, you know what kind of call you don't want to get?Well, obviously, there's plenty of them, come to think of it. But take away all the death and dismemberment, the ones involving kids and buddies getting hit, and you know what must suck?Answering a domestic-disturbance call at the pol ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 20, 2008

    Joanna Carl

    Web exclusive!

  • News

    November 20, 2008

    Al Green Goes All Rambo

    Web exclusive!

  • Blogs

    November 14, 2008

    Baylor Says That's Not A Noose, That's A Swing

    The president of Baylor University has sent out an e-mail to students and staff explaining that a rope, found hanging from a tree on Election Day, was not a noose. President David Garland said students had come forward to explain the rope was merely the remnants of a swing that they had tried t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 9, 2008

    Eversole's No Longer Announcing He's Screwed

    The president of Baylor University has sent out an e-mail to students and staff explaining that a rope, found hanging from a tree on Election Day, was not a noose. President David Garland said students had come forward to explain the rope was merely the remnants of a swing that they had tried t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 28, 2008

    This Just In: FBI Opens Investigation of Clemens

    The president of Baylor University has sent out an e-mail to students and staff explaining that a rope, found hanging from a tree on Election Day, was not a noose. President David Garland said students had come forward to explain the rope was merely the remnants of a swing that they had tried t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 12, 2008

    Steroids and Roger Clemens: Andy Pettitte Won’t Be There When Mr. Clemens Goes to Washington

    The president of Baylor University has sent out an e-mail to students and staff explaining that a rope, found hanging from a tree on Election Day, was not a noose. President David Garland said students had come forward to explain the rope was merely the remnants of a swing that they had tried t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 15, 2008

    Steroids and Miguel Tejada: Sucks To Be Ed Wade Right Now

    The president of Baylor University has sent out an e-mail to students and staff explaining that a rope, found hanging from a tree on Election Day, was not a noose. President David Garland said students had come forward to explain the rope was merely the remnants of a swing that they had tried t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 9, 2008

    Roger Clemens and Steroids: Hearings Scheduled for a Date to Be Named at a Later Date

    The president of Baylor University has sent out an e-mail to students and staff explaining that a rope, found hanging from a tree on Election Day, was not a noose. President David Garland said students had come forward to explain the rope was merely the remnants of a swing that they had tried t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 19, 2007

    Two Village Voice Media Higher-Ups Thrown in Jail Last Night

    The president of Baylor University has sent out an e-mail to students and staff explaining that a rope, found hanging from a tree on Election Day, was not a noose. President David Garland said students had come forward to explain the rope was merely the remnants of a swing that they had tried t ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 10, 2006

    Gestating Gumshoe

    The president of Baylor University has sent out an e-mail to students and staff explaining that a rope, found hanging from a tree on Election Day, was not a noose. President David Garland said students had come forward to explain the rope was merely the remnants of a swing that they had tried t ... More >>

  • Music

    November 3, 2005

    Los Lonely Boys

    Thursday, November 3, at Verizon Wireless Theater, 520 Texas, 713-225-8551.

  • News

    December 20, 2001

    All That Glitters...

    Prison's in the past. Joe Champion's chasing after alchemy again.

  • Best of Houston

    September 20, 2001

    Best Whistle-Blower

    Lisa Rogers

  • Best of Houston

    September 20, 2001

    Best Russian Grocery

    Moscow Market & Deli

  • News

    November 30, 2000

    One Down

    Catherine Mehaffey Shelton's husband got convicted of murder. And the jury believed Shelton was with him.

  • News

    December 16, 1999

    Still Open and Shut

    The state bows out of the Beauchamp case

  • News

    July 30, 1998

    An Open But Shut Case

    Paul Beauchamp's death was ruled a homicide. So why isn't the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office investigating?

  • News

    June 27, 1996

    Death in the Back Seat

    However it went down, Jaciel Gonzalez shouldn't have died

  • News

    May 30, 1996

    Blood Feud

    The head of the ME's DNA lab says prosecutors are trying to discredit her for failing to be a "team player"

  • News

    May 23, 1996

    The Insider

    The head of the ME's DNA lab says prosecutors are trying to discredit her for failing to be a "team player"

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