Subject: Lufkin

• This Just In: Conviction Upheld in Case of Man Who Stomped on Pregnant Girlfriend’s Belly

  February 13, 2008

• A Modest Proposal: Train the Homeless to Be Better at Being Homeless

  February 29, 2008

• Aftermath: Kid Rock and Lynyrd Skynyrd at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion

  August 11, 2008

• We Read The Small-Town Police Blotters, So You Don’t Have To

  August 20, 2008

• Charlie Wilson's War -- Over A UT Chair

  August 27, 2008

• A Whole Lot of HEB Stores Are Now Open

  September 16, 2008

• Rocksteady Ska-lawags

  Austin's Stingers put the buzz back in a tired genre by revisiting its roots

  April 18, 2002

• No Mercy

  November 10, 1994

• Condoms! Homosexuals! Lesbian Adoption!

  December 29, 1994

• Basic Ballard

  March 13, 1997

• Idol Beat, Part 1: More Hollywood Week

  Photos courtesy FoxYou thought the funeral was over? You thought all those tears were dried up? You were wrong, my friends - so very, very wrong. Aye, verily, the bloodletting continued unabated as Hollywood Week wound down. Hey, Ryan Seacrest warned us at the outset: "The stakes are as high as they've ever been, and the pressure is even higher. This... is American Idol!" DAY 4 Seacrest: "It's Day 4 of a long and grinding Hell week." Indeed, but with all due respect to the nervous, s

  February 12, 2009

• Letters

  April 27, 2000

• Truck Drivers Falter Under the Weight of High Fuel Prices

  The rising price of diesel hits independent owner/operators the hardest

  May 22, 2008

• Back from Iraq with Plenty of Problems

  January 17, 2008

• Charlie Wilson's War

  All aboard the '80s way-back machine for Mike Nichols's good time Charlie

  December 20, 2007

• Letter from Uzbekistan

  Spoiled meat, fermented mare's milk and a president who says he'd rip off his kid's head -- such is Wil Wuerdig's life as a musician in Central Asia

  February 6, 2003

• Hog Wild

  Feral pigs are ugly, destructive and mean. Some people in Texas just love to trap, stab or shoot them. Or put them in rodeos. With dogs.

  August 24, 2006

• Forget the Food

  Go to La Strada for Sunday brunch, and the fiesta will leave you wanting more

  January 12, 2006

• A Gap in Coverage

  Critics of GoldStar ambulance service say it's late to emergencies, cares for profits over patients, and doctors its books. But without it, there's nothing.

  July 14, 2005

• Psyched Out

  VA nurses say a new rule that they be able to physically subdue unruly mental patients was just an excuse to get rid of them

  July 7, 2005

• Stomped Out

  A teenage mom-to-be decides she doesn't want her babies after all

  April 28, 2005

• Tree's Company

  The tannenbaum gets a makeover at Buffalo Bayou ArtPark

  December 2, 2004

• A Nashville Star Is Born

  Former Richmond Strip denizen Sheila Marshall makes it all the way to Music City

  March 18, 2004

• No Mo' Pogo

  Time to say "ska-dios" to the Suspects; also, the Music Awards jinx strikes again

  August 22, 2002

• A Lavender Christmas

  The Gay Men’s Chorus of Houston sings out for Santa Claus and the baby Jesus

  December 27, 2001

• Blind Faith

  Luke and Rachel Watson have lost most of their sight. They eventually will lose all motor skills. Their parents are losing sleep -- do the adults tell their kids they're dying of Batten disease?

  June 14, 2001

• Fish Tales

  Rayburn's bass diminish as debates continue over pollution discharges

  December 28, 2000

• The Private Trial of Donald Davis

  A Houston attorney who specialized in saving killers' lives couldn't handle his own. So he took it.

  November 30, 2000

• Job Insecurity

  For 13 hours, guard Jeanette Bledsoe wondered if she would see one more murder inside prison walls -- her own. Now she wants to make sure TDCJ protects those who protect us from society's rejects.

  October 12, 2000

• Reeling

  Bass kills and lesions on fish worry Sam Rayburn anglers. So does the state's plan to lower the lake's pollution standards.

  April 6, 2000

• Coming to No Good End

  Undertaker Jay Herman shot his lover, Edwina Prosen, to death in 1991. That's the only thing he and her family have agreed on since.

  May 13, 1999

• Bad Cash Investments

  April 1, 1999

• Nice Guy, Nice Songs

  From 4-H to Miss Molly, Hadden Sayers keeps aiming for the next plateau

  January 26, 1995

• On the Blues Highway

  Trudy Lynn recalls her journey to musical acclaim

  April 28, 1994

• A Chat with Trey Lindberg of Benjy's

  Photo by Sarah RufkaIf you want to chat up Benjy's barkeep Trey Lindberg -- and why wouldn't you? He's cute and makes a seriously decent mojito -- then bring up football. Trey, a former high school player, Texans season ticket holder and aspiring coach, is obsessed. He's on a flag league out in Katy, where he does not live. "You'd think that since it's flag football, it's just going to be regular guys," he says, "but no, these are ex-semi-pro players, college players and whatnot." During the f

  July 2, 2009

• Move Over, Ron Paul: There's A New Nut In The Texas Congressional Delegation

  ​Be proud, Lufkin: Your Congressman is a nut.We're not talking even Ron Paul nuttiness; U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert has left even that far behind.Gohmert appeared on the Alex Jones radio show last week. That sentence should be enough to prove nuttiness; Jones (a native Texan! He's appeared in Richard Linklater films!!) is the nation's premier uber-conservative conspiracy nut. (9/11 an inside job, Bill Clinton planned the Oklahoma City bombings, etc, ad nauseam.)So going on the show is bad enough.

  July 28, 2009

• Another Texas Arrest In That A-Hole Prankster Ring

  The Smoking GunNewly arrested prankster​The Smoking Gun continues to stay on top of the effort to out and punish the juvenile a-holes (some of them sex offenders, some of them merely Mom's-basement types) who go around ruining property and people's days with "pranks."The hilarity involves calling restaurants or hotels, convincing employees to turn on fire-control systems, break windows or even drink a pale liquid that turns out to be urine. They then brag about it online.TSG did a masterful jo

  September 10, 2009

• Aftermath: U2 at Reliant Stadium - One Love, We Get to Share It

  Photos by Groovehouse/ Click here for a slideshow​A day or two before U2 (and love) came to town, a friend emailed us a joke. At least we think it's a joke. It really doesn't have anything to do with U2, except that it has everything to do with U2. "I was so depressed last night thinking about the economy, terrorism attacks, World War III, global warming, my retirement savings, Social Security, my job, national health care and my credit card debt that I called Lifeline. "Got a freakin' call ce

  October 15, 2009

• Ever Been Fingerprinted? Well, You Might Just Be... I Dunno, Oh, SATAN!

  ​Pam McLaurin is a teacher in Big Sandy ISD in Polk County in deep East Texas. The Texas Education Association has asked her to submit to a background check. McLaurin, who has taught for 20 years, has complied with every part of the check save for the mandatory fingerprinting, which she opposes on religious grounds.That's because the kindergarten teacher interprets the Book of Revelation literally, and thus fears that by allowing her fingerprint to be digitized and stored in a computer, she wi

  November 10, 2009

• A $2 Million Car, A Pelican And A Lagoon

  A Bugatti Veyron, sans pelican​Here is a sentence with so many strange and wonderful parts in it that it's best just to let it speak for itself:A Lufkin man drove his $2 million Bugatti sportscar into a Galveston-area lagoon after being distracted by a pelican.First, who spends $2 million on a car? And second, of all the places you'd expect such a person to be from, Lufkin would be right behind oh, say, La Porte. Third, you've got the whole aspect of the vengeful, possibly jealous, pelican. It

  November 12, 2009