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College Football: National Signing Day 2013, A Decade Of Cautionary Tales

Beginning bright and early Wednesday morning, 18-year-old football players far and wide will finalize in writing their plans on where they will ply their trade for the next three to five years, causing high blood pressure in adults three times their age coast to coast and dragging the fax machine in ... More >>

5 Bands Abraham Lincoln Would Have Been Into

If he had not been assassinated 147 years ago, Abraham Lincoln would be having a pretty good year. In an already rancorous election campaign, our 16th president remains the ideal of statesmanship, common sense and decency in the Oval Office, virtues all but alien in modern-day Washington. This Frida ... More >>

Friends Like These

Woman sexes hospitalized pal's teen.

Karen Carstens: Sexed Underage Boy While His Mom Was Hospitalized, Cops Say

When her good friend was hospitalized, Karen Lee Carstens volunteered to help watch her 13-year-old son. For two years, cops say, she and the boy had a sexual relationship, one where he apparently was more worried about birth control than she was. According to court documents, at one point the boy ... More >>

Anastasia: The Mystery Is Over, But the Songs Go On

Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia was the youngest daughter of Russia's last Tsar, Nicholas II. During her father's reign, her life was rife with scandal due to the association between the royal family and Grigori Rasputin. By all accounts, the relationship that Rasputin had with the you ... More >>

Wine Has Terroir; Oysters Have "Merroir," and We'll Pay More For It

"We had a vastly more sophisticated oyster culture 100 years ago than we do now," said Robb Walsh over a plate of six Gulf oysters yesterday afternoon. Walsh was speaking on a panel of winemakers on pairing white wines with oysters, but the lost history of Texas oysters was proving far more fascinat ... More >>

A Wrong Turn

Once Galveston emergency personnel discovered the dead motorcyclist was "one of us," a Bellaire teenager's nightmare revved into overdrive.

Lincoln Memorial

Redford helms another dull history lesson.

Million Miles Away

Plimsouls rocker Peter Case bounces back from heart ­surgery.

Love, Shelby

Shelby Lynne smolders on Tears, Lies, and ­Alibis.

Net Gains and Losses

Is the Omega Protein company overfishing the most important fish in the sea?

Noncombat Deaths: Another Casualty of War

The mass shooting at Fort Hood was just one of a growing number of troubling military deaths, murders and suicides.

Cover Me

Kathern Cathey thought she had an insurance policy that would save her life. Not exactly.

An Actual (Alleged) Dick-Measuring Contest Spawns Lawsuit

Allegations that the CEO of an energy company dropped his pants during a work dinner, tried to force his way into the hotel room of a woman colleague and stole the woman's cell phone in order to place sexual prank calls may be bunk, but at least they've got a bit of punch to them.The former Chief ... More >>

Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Amtgard, Howard Stern and Infernal Bridgroom

Spring Training: Milo Hamilton, Harry Caray, Drayton McLane, Roger Clemens and Ria Cortesio

Barack Obama and Me

It was the year 2000 and I was a young hungry reporter in Chicago covering a young hungry state legislator

Live-Action Role-Players Get Boffed in Amtgard

Amid flailing swords and flying shields, these modern-day knights fight on

Souvenir

Souvenir hits the right note — even if its heroine can't

Jazz and Oysters

The cocktail lounge at Tommy's is the perfect antidote for Norman Rockwell holidays

Rush to Judgment

In World War II, Houston attorney Leon Jaworski prosecuted a group of black American soldiers. In a hurried-up trial, they were court-martialed and sentenced to hard labor. The verdict was probably wrong. And Jaworski had a lot to do with that.

In the Pink

These gun club members take aim at unlikely stereotypes: other gays and lesbians

Business as Usual

Despite a deregulated energy market, Houston is sticking with the home team

Playing by the Rules

A Houston softball team accuses Atlanta of being too straight

Coming Through in the Clutch

Even a wayward washing machine can't drop these sludge-rockers to the canvas

Punk of the Month Club

Good Charlotte knows it's more than a passing fancy. But does America?

The Grim Rapper

Plus: A Deserving Katie, Junk School Junk Food, Going Back

Buyers' Remorse

The Cohns say their builder ripped them off with a poorly built home that became infested with mold. They've joined other Texas homeowners who want a lemon law passed just for houses.

Under The Volcano

Crown Central Petroleum spews, sputters and flares up. Neighbors of the plant view it uneasily, never quite sure when it's going to blow.

Drug Money

Narcotics task forces in Texas spend millions of dollars each year busting low-level users and dealers. Is it money well spent, or are officers just addicted to easy cash?

Bugged Out

Want to gain trust? One entrepreneur swears the answer is to distrust.

Rob Todd Unredacted

Desperately seeking Susan

Paying the Price

Major gas companies are driving away independent station operators, all in the name of greed

Dawn of the Dead

Sci Fi's brilliant good vs. evil is a corpse in search of a burial

Stadia Watch

Hoopla. Will the Rockets relocate? Don't bet on it.

Billie Bob's (Mis) Fortune

Less than two years after Billie Bob Harrell Jr. took the $31 million lottery jackpot, he took his own life

Race Cars

If you're black or brown, driving a nice car will get you noticed by police in Houston

Searching for a Cello

In school, Des Hoebig learned to play an instrument. Now, out in the shady world of big-money dealers, he's learning to buy one.

Virgin Rebirth

The statue doesn't look like a traditional Our Lady of Guadalupe. But its appearance is just the start of the

Rotation

Alison Cook looks back at 1997: The Year That Bit

The Insider

Show 'Em Your Money!

Missing Link

Drayton Steals Home

Blood Feud

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

Blowed Up Real Good

Hootie gets big while keeping its eyes on the small stuff

The Cloud Over Lightning Strike

Did the U.S. government spend $2 million just to nail little guys like David Proctor?

The fight to save the Katy Prairie

How many winters more will Arctic waterfowl make their 10,000-year-old journey to the western edge of Houston?

Congressman Bill Archer Greets the Rotarians

A citizen among the up-treading