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Lufkin

  • Blogs

    May 3, 2012

    Destiny Adams and Kimberly Pierce: Two East Texas Women On Cutting Edge Of "Keying Men's Trucks" Epidemic?

    As the furrow-browed detectives say in all those bad cop dramas, "Looks like we've got a pattern here." Criminal mischief. Lots of it. And of the felony kind. Two East Texas women have been arrested on that charge in the last week, both of them for damaging the paint jobs of trucks with keys. We' ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 26, 2012

    5 Reasons Why Texas Will Never Win "Most Peaceful State" (and Good Riddance)

    Maine has won the latest version of the United States Peace Index's "Most Peaceful State" competition. Texas? Forty-sixth most peaceful. This result simply means that Maine is a big pile of bo-ring while Texas is still holding it down with do-whatever-we-please citizens and outrageous criminals ( ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 24, 2012

    Justin McDonald and Zachary Bridges: Bad Fake Cops, Including Guyliner & Faux-Hawk

    There has been a rash of fake cops in the Lufkin area of late, with two men finding lodgings in the Angelina County Jail after run-ins with their authentic counterparts. Per KTRE, Justin McDonald was jailed for violating the terms of his probation stemming from an incident 14 months ago. In Februar ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 5, 2012

    Vanessa Clark: Second SIDS Death in a Year Leads To Child Endangerment Conviction

    A Lufkin woman has been convicted of felony child endangerment after an infant died in her bed for the second time in a span of two calendar years. Yesterday afternoon an Angelina County jury handed down a guilty verdict against Vanessa Clark, 33, for her role in the death of her two-month-old son ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2012

    George Mitchell: Huge Bond for Man Accused of Stealing 11 Pregnancy Tests from CVS

    At first blush, even for East Texas, land of high bail, $404,277 seems like an exorbitant bond for a guy who was initially arrested for stealing 11 pregnancy tests from a Lufkin CVS. However, that odd theft is not all 26-year-old George Melvin Mitchell is on the hook for. Far from it. But let's be ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2011

    Cover Story: How James "Bull" Durham Became A Poster Boy for East Texas Meth

    ​See our slideshow of James Durham's descent into meth hell. James "Bull" Durham, Lufkin's meth poster boy, popped his first shot of that devil's potion at the age of eleven -- he says it helped him get through his day-long shifts as an off-the-books catfish skinner. Even so, he says his lif ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 13, 2011

    William Chambliss: Suspected of DWI with Grandkids Perched on Roof of SUV

    William Chambliss, grandfather of the year.​Drunk driving is a terrible idea. Drunk driving with kids in the car is even worse. Leave it to an East Texan from the Lufkin-area village of Huntington to invent an even worse variation on this potentially deadly theme. On Monday, concerned citizen ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 21, 2011

    Jesus "Jesse" Gonzalez: Former HS Teacher Marries Student, Complicates Prosecution of Improper Relationship Case

    Bad teachers abound in Texas.​Recent weeks have seen a rash of cases involving high school teachers having sexual relationships with students past the age of consent. These cases differ from sexual assaults in that while they are second-degree felonies punishable by up to 20 years in prison, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 13, 2011

    Blake Broadway: Fear And Loathing in Lufkin Vegas

    Blake Broadway probably doesn't look like Johnny Depp, either​"The trunk of the car looked like a mobile police narcotics lab," wrote Hunter S. Thompson in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. "We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 12, 2011

    Terrell Rogers: Three-Pronged Effort To Hide Weed Ends In Felony Charge

    Angelina County JailTerrell Rogers: How not to dispose of your weed evidence​Say what you will about Terrell Rogers of Angelina County, but you can't give him anything less than an A for effort. The heavily-inked 24-year-old was arrested after a traffic stop on Highway 59 just north of his ho ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 10, 2011

    Lufkin Couple Heads To Jail After Pregnant Woman Smokes Cig

    Not the Lufkin woman, who we're sure doesn't have tats​According to a police report summarized in the Lufkin Daily News, 33-year-old Roosevelt Lee Williams III called police out to discuss a Mother's Day altercation with 26-year-old mama-to-be Dominique Bryan that had just ended. He told pol ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 7, 2011

    Another Alleged East Texas Trailer Park Gang Rape, This One Near Lufkin

    Angelina CountyClinton "Bubba" Johnson Jr.: Friend says he bragged about inserting beer bottle into victim.​While the nation and the world are recoiling in horror from the alleged Cleveland trailer park gang rape, a similarly depraved tale in the town of Hudson (just outside of Lufkin) has yet ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2011

    Mom And Grandma Busted After Doughnut-Spinning Truck Almost Leads To Trailer Park Tragedy Near Lufkin

    Jeff Foxworthy has another entry​Keeping the kids happy while you're tying one on in the old trailer park can be a challenge. You can't run 'em down to Chuck E. Cheese because drunk driving with the kids in the car is a felony, so you have to give Lufkin-area mother-and-daughter Tammy Kay Bur ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 8, 2011

    Scott Stewart: Front Porch Fracas Over Crack Cash Lands Lufkin Man in Jail

    Scott Stewart: The pepper balls did him in​While Scott Stewart might not charge much in rent, the 38-year-old East Texas landlord definitely does prove that adage that you get what you pay for. And there's another old chestnut his alleged actions would seem to buttress, one first uttered by fu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 21, 2011

    Robert Raymond Jones Goes All Smokey and the Bandit in East Texas

    Where's Buford T. Pusser when you need him?​Robert Raymond Jones of Houston, you know how to cause a stir. You get into a hit-and-run accident early Sunday morning, and apparently you take the "run" part of that very, very seriously. Soon cops from several jurisdictions are trailing you. It ... More >>

  • News

    February 10, 2011

    Useless Report

    Study of Teach For America's worth says little.

  • Blogs

    January 31, 2011

    Victor Ray Wortham: Loud Gum-Smacking Spurs Domestic Violence Complaint

    Angelina County SOVictor Ray Wortham: Vicious attack over not much​Let's face it: sharing space with someone who smacks their gum can be damned annoying. Still, we think Lufkin's Victor Ray Wortham might have slightly overreacted when his wife's gum-popping allegedly spurred him on to a viciou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 20, 2011

    Jose Otilio Diaz Jr.: Apartment Maintenance Man Allegedly Goes From Creepy Masturbator to Attempted Rapist

    Photo courtesy Angelina County JailJose Otilio Diaz: Runs into one badass woman​Although he had only been on the job for a few weeks, Jose Otilio Diaz Jr. had not made many friends at the Lufkin apartment complex where he served as an assistant to the chief. According to an arrest report quote ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 1, 2010

    Trishana Broussard: Sex With Three East Texas Teens Nets Six Years' Prison

    Trishana Broussard: If blowing underage boys in cemeteries is wrong, she don't wanna be right​A 37-year-old East Texas woman is going to prison after pleading no contest to engaging in oral sex with three teenaged boys. On Monday, Trishana "Mama Bear" Broussard was sentenced to a six-year se ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 20, 2010

    Ernest Goes to Jail: Accused Trailer Park Child Molestor Gets In Trouble Before Trial

    This Ernest: a lot less funny than the movie character​Back in July of last year, an 8-year-old girl who lived near 43-year-old Ernest May in a trailer park on the outskirts of Lufkin told her father that May had molested her. She later said that May had showed her his "wrong spot," and when she r ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 4, 2010

    Houston Slammed By European Travel Blog: We're Boooorrring

    But...but...there's the Kemah Boardwalk!!​Among world cities, in which category does Houston rank second only to Brussels, the capital of the European Union? Tedium, at least according to the European Union-funded wiki blog OpenTravel. According to "Chili," an English-language challenged scr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 16, 2010

    Joseph Michael Weeks: East Texan Accused Of Teen's Cough Syrup Sex Assault

    Photo courtesy Angelina County SOStocking up at the Lufkin Walmart​An 18-year-old man is behind bars in Lufkin after it was alleged that he sexually assaulted a 13-year-old girl who was incapacitated by a cough-syrup high.According to an arrest affidavit, the accused, Joseph Weeks, met up with the ... More >>

  • News

    July 8, 2010

    Lawn Mower Man

    Kenneth Page followed his peculiar dream from Texas to Florida.

  • Blogs

    June 29, 2010

    Purple Drank Goes Pro, Thanks To ESPN

    ​ESPN's Outside the Lines, the Emmy Award-winning investigative series that examines topical issues off the playing field, aired a feature over the weekend on Houston's very own rap mascot - purple drank - the dangerous mix of prescription codeine cough syrup and any range of mixers from Sprit ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 22, 2010

    Piney Woods Penis Parade: Two Pervs In Court On Same Day For Public Masturbation

    Courtesy of Angelina County JailClifton Earl Chessher​What in tarnation is going on up in the Piney Woods? On the very same day this week, one fortysomething East Texas man was arrested after a woman said he masturbated at her car from the side of the highway, while not far from there, after ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 14, 2010

    Romance Blooms Out Of The Ashes Of A Lufkin Crime Of Passion

    ​Paraphrasing Larry McMurtry, a woman's love is like the spring dew. It's just as likely to descend on a cowpie as an April wildflower.In the East Texas romance of Jennifer Doss and Christopher Guffey, we're leaning towards cowpie. You see, Guffey, an alleged member of the Aryan Brotherhood prison ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 30, 2010

    Was Chris Brown Shopping For A Birthday Party Spot At The Galleria?

    celebrityevil.com (Warning: Some NSFW content on site)​ Channel 39 recently posted a short video of Chris Brown as the embattled R&B singer visited the Galleria over the weekend. The video is about a minute of Brown, a small entourage and a phalanx of security guards leaving a shoe store and h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 15, 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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 28, 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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 2, 2009

    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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 12, 2009

    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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 16, 2008

    A Whole Lot of HEB Stores Are Now Open

    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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 11, 2008

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

    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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 29, 2008

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

    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 ... More >>

  • Film

    December 20, 2007

    Charlie Wilson's War

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

  • News

    August 24, 2006

    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.

  • Dining

    January 12, 2006

    Forget the Food

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

  • News

    July 7, 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

  • News

    April 28, 2005

    Stomped Out

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

  • Calendar

    December 2, 2004

    Tree's Company

    The tannenbaum gets a makeover at Buffalo Bayou ArtPark

  • Music

    March 18, 2004

    A Nashville Star Is Born

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

  • Music

    August 22, 2002

    No Mo' Pogo

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

  • News

    December 28, 2000

    Fish Tales

    Rayburn's bass diminish as debates continue over pollution discharges

  • News

    April 27, 2000

    Letters

    Rayburn's bass diminish as debates continue over pollution discharges

  • News

    April 1, 1999

    Bad Cash Investments

    Rayburn's bass diminish as debates continue over pollution discharges

  • News

    March 13, 1997

    Basic Ballard

    Donna Ballard and her Christian conservative cohorts have transformed the State Board of Education. But will they transform the way Texas teaches its kids?

  • Music

    January 26, 1995

    Nice Guy, Nice Songs

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

  • News

    December 29, 1994

    Condoms! Homosexuals! Lesbian Adoption!

    After a vicious campaign, the religious right is poised to push its agenda on the State Board of Education

  • News

    November 10, 1994

    No Mercy

    A law of good intent goes unused, and proponents say that's left victims further victimized

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