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Top Five Things to Do in Houston Sports This Weekend: Dirt, Clay, Mud and Cheerleaders

TGIF, my children. It's time to rev up the weekend and get yo butt in gear. You may want to lie around on your couch watching the Final Four or spend some time absorbing "culture" at a "museum." I say blow all that crap out of the water with an ass kicking good time like any red blooded American. Ho ... More >>

The NBA Makes The Day Of Some Hospitalized Children

On the tenth floor of Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital, the children aren't allowed to do much, considering their condition. Many children are sick, wheelchair-bound, or bed-bound. They have an artificial park there called Fondren Park to help give them a feel of what it's like to be outside and ... More >>

Stolen Food Truck's Wild Ride: A Fence-Smashing, Median-Jumping, Cop-Hitting Episode On The Southwest Side

After one of their food trucks was burglarized a second time, the owners of Healthy Lunch Box Catering decided to take action. They may have got more than they bargained for. After setting up surveillance of their parking lot Saturday night, they were witnesses to a wild episode that only ended wh ... More >>

HPD Releases Surveillance Footage of a Shooting by a Guy Trying to Look Like a Ninja

On December 8 at around 9:20 p.m., three suspects were allegedly involved in the shooting of Eduardo Magana, 18, of Sugar Land in a the parking lot of a convenience store at 7433 Bissonnet. Police have released a surveillance video of the shooting, which includes two of the suspects. The shooter, se ... More >>

Harlem Harold Lewis: Man Charged in Christmas Eve Slayings of Bellaire Cop, Good Samaritan

Murder charges have been filed against a 21-year-old man suspected of killing a Bellaire police officer and a man who came to his aid Christmas Eve. Harlem Harold Lewis has been charged with capital murder and murder in the shooting deaths of Bellaire Police Corporal J.D. Norman, 53, and Terry Tayl ... More >>

Vanessa Rodriguez Shooting Death: Police Have a Surveillance Video

Police have obtained surveillance video of an Hispanic male wanted for questioning in the November 8 death of 23-year-old Vanessa Rodriguez. As we reported earlier, Rodriguez called police to tell them she had been shot at her apartment about 11 a.m. at 8520 Pitner. Her one-year-old was in another ... More >>

Freakish Practice Injury Nearly Kills Houston Cougars' D.J. Hayden

Football is a violent, dangerous sport. But when watching a running back break free of the line of scrimmage and bust into the open and sprint 40 yards for a touchdown, the violence and danger can be forgotten. The perfect spiral into the outstretched arms of a receiver sprinting down the sideline b ... More >>

Patrick Spurlock: Goes On Shooting Rampage, Injuring 4, Then Dies In Car Accident

A chronically disgruntled renter went on a shooting rampage Wednesday morning and injured four people before dying in a traffic accident, police say. HPD has identified the shooter as Patrick O'Neal Spurlock, 39. The ysaid they received a call of a shooting in progress at an apartment in the 6000 b ... More >>

HPD Releases ABN Shooting Report: Poppa C Was Target

The Houston Police Department released its report of the investigation into Wednesday morning's shooting outside two southwest Houston nightclubs that killed three people and wounded two others, including popular Houston rapper Trae tha Truth. According to the report, the shooting occurred around 3 ... More >>

Rate Your Risk, Maybe

Harold McMillan: Austin Art/Music Mainstay Says He Got Roughed Up by HPD Officer at Memorial Hermann

Harold McMillan is considered a gentle soul by those who know him, which is why it was out of character for him to drop the f-bomb in an exchange with a Memorial Hermann hospital guest-relations employee last week -- a poor choice of wording that, he says, resulted in him being forced face-first to ... More >>

Sylvia Casares, Owner of Sylvia's Enchilada Kitchen, Shot and Wounded

Sylvia Casares, chef and owner of Sylvia's Enchilada Kitchen, was shot in the stomach on Monday night at her home near Fulshear, according to the Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office. Casares was taken by Life Flight to Memorial Hermann Hospital and is currently in stable condition at an undisclosed ... More >>

Brown Trial: Not Guilty, Not Surprising

Michael Brown is not a guilty man.​In a strictly legal sense, today's not guilty verdict in Dr. Michael Brown's assault trial was probably the right call. Although prosecutors Jane Waters and Nathan Hennigan probably did the best with what they had, they didn't have much. Rachel Brown had no ... More >>

Two Local Helmetless Teen Skaters Suffer Life-Threatening Brain Injuries

​Tara Csatlos is 16 years old, but her vision is equivalent to a 40-year-old's. In the past year, she has almost died several times, traveled back and forth to Illinois to see medical specialists and dropped out of spring semester at Cypress Woods High School. All of this due to a freak skateb ... More >>

Clarence Vick, 61, Bayou Body Count No. 92

Killed while watering his lawn.​A southwest side man was killed in the course of being robbed while watering his front lawn early Monday morning, Houston police say. Clarence Vick, 61, had returned home from his job as a nightclub photographer when he decided to water his lawn about 2:50 a.m. ... More >>

Steven Sadler, 25, Bayou Body Count No. 91

Wesley Clark faces murder charges​Three men were talking on a porch early Saturday morning when one took out a pistol and started firing, police say. Wesley Clark, 26 has been charged with murder for killing Steven Sadler, 25, on the northwest side of town about 6 a.m. Saturday. Police Clark ... More >>

Doctor Challenges Mayor Parker to Become Vegan, As If She's Not Busy With Anything Else

More, Parker. More.​Hey, Mayor Parker! Drop those bacon-wrapped Cheetos. In fact, drop everything, and become a vegan. You're not doing anything else, are you? So supposes Dr. Neal Barnard, a nutritionist who's coming all the way from D.C. to fix Houston's lardy lifestyle with legumes. As p ... More >>

Davon Stewart: Beery Melee Among Deaf Friends Ends In Gnawed Ear, Injured Leg, Flight From Cops

Ears, they're not just for Mike Tyson anymore.​Relatively few of us get into fistfights as adults, or get run over by trucks. Fewer still of us bite off a chunk of someone's ear or flee the cops in a wheelchair. In the history of mankind, perhaps only Davon LeShannon Stewart has done all fou ... More >>

Gabrielle Giffords Coming to Houston

Gabrielle Giffords with her astronaut husband, Mark Kelly​CNN is reporting that family members say Rep. Gabrielle Giffords will be coming to Houston Friday to begin her long rehab process. The victim of the Tucson shootings will move to an unnamed facility here, but one with "military surgeon ... More >>

Janet Folyth McAfee, 50, Bayou Body Count No. 102

Death in an exclusive neighborhood​A domestic dispute that turned into a SWAT situation ended Saturday with a woman dead and the man who allegedly killed her in critical condition from a self-inflicted gun wound.Police responded to a "panic alarm" call in the 2100 block of Tangley near Rice ... More >>

Crash Reports

Running a red light and killing someone does not automatically mean you're in trouble in Harris County.

Uvaldo Gallardo, 18: Bayou Body Count Victim Number 1 For 2010

courtesy of HPDLeandro Lozano-Jiminez​Suspected New Year's Day killer Leandro Lozano-Jiminez is on the loose, and Houston police say he's armed and dangerous.It was only 56 minutes into 2010 when Lozano-Jiminez, 20, started arguing with Uvaldo Gallardo, 18, and his brother, Hugo Gallardo, 25, at 9 ... More >>

Ghost Riders: Way of Life

Leigh Boone rode her bike everywhere she went.

Bayou Body Count: A Case Of Bad Timing

​Some people simply don't have good timing.Such was the case for 35-year-old Christina Stonebarger.On Sunday, Stonebarger and her friend Michelle Stansel, 36, were hanging out in Stonebarger's room at a motel at 12600 South Main, where both women lived. For some reason, police say, the two friends ... More >>

Bayou Body Count: Don't Mess With A Cop's K-9

​You don't mess with a man's dog. Especially if that man is a cop. At about 4:30 p.m. Friday, Houston police officer W.G. Smith made his way to an apartment complex at 7100 Renwick to check out a burglary that was supposedly going on. As Smith was heading up to the apartment, one of the people wh ... More >>

Bayou Body Count: Some Arrests, And Sex Gone Wrong

Houston police have arrested Harry Dwight Williams for allegedly shooting a 19-year-old man and his girlfriend earlier this month at McCullough Park. Police say that James Smith, 19, was walking through the park with his girlfriend when he saw Williams, and the two men started arguing. When they sta ... More >>

ID Theft

Someone gets your social, ruins your credit, upends your life. And gets away free and clear.

Bayou Body Count: An Attempt To Steal A Car Ends Badly

Texas and the right to defend oneself with deadly force seem to go hand-in-hand. And so it was for one man and his wife on Saturday along the 1100 block of Langwick. Houston police say a man shot and killed Darryl Milton Franklin Jr., 37, after Franklin tried to steal his car around 6:25 in the morn ... More >>

Barry Bonds Might Not Go to Jail

As far as I'm concerned, the big news is that Barry Bonds might be getting off. Yep, that's right. Barry Bonds might not be going to jail. For those who don't know all of the details, but do know that Bonds is going on trial in March, know this. He's not going on trial for using steroids. He's ... More >>

Barry Bonds Might Not Go to Jail

As far as I'm concerned, the big news is that Barry Bonds might be getting off. Yep, that's right. Barry Bonds might not be going to jail. For those who don't know all of the details, but do know that Bonds is going on trial in March, know this. He's not going on trial for using steroids. He's ... More >>

College Immaterial for High School Students in Vocational Training

Good paying jobs, no huge loan burdens, exciting course work — the new vo-tech attracts more and more hi-tech students

Mental Anguish at Texas West Oaks Hospital

Go to this private psychiatric facility, and you might be helped. Or you might be shut in a room all alone and end up like Amanda, with a broken arm. Or dead.

Lost Weekend: Aeros Lose to Marlies and Bulldogs

Death at West Oaks Hospital

Two men went into a walled-in courtyard at a mental hospital. One came out alive.

Whose Best Interests?

Margie Hill got sick, became a ward of the county and was moved to a nursing home. Son Marvin wants her back home. But she can't get out.

Run Over by Metro

The city's bus company shows little inclination to pay up or change its ways, even after it smacks into people like its own employee Clarence Santee Jr.

Exposed Nerve

Cyberonics has implanted its pacemaker in thousands of epileptics. It wants to expand to the depression market. Still needed: an accounting of those who died or were injured after receiving its implant.

Sudden Impact

What could be safer than dropping your kid off at the movies? A lot of things, as it turns out.

Last Frights

The death of a mourner mars Kinney Abair's funeral

Showdown at the Bar X

There ain't enough room in this town for Helen Phillips and her enemies

Back in the Saddle

A former mayoral staffer resurfaces at the county

A Figure to Die For

Community Health Systems cashed in big on the stomach stapling rage. It almost cost Kaye Parsley her life.

Best Wishes

Plus: RAD Is Bad, In God's Name, and Ay, Carrabba!

Lost & Found

One year ago, the Lost Boys of Sudan came to Houston in search of America, a future, safety and an education simple things that got somewhat complicated in the translation

Script Doctor

Pavan Grover jumps from cellular world to the celluloid world

A Night in the Tub

An angel named Grace, a doctor who's a real Trip and fresh gore flooding the ER -- the new Ben Taub gets old quick

Letters 09-21-2000

Listen to the Music, Still Fuming, Building Bonds

Not Your Grandma's Girl Scouts

Rachelle Anderson just took super Girl Scout honors. And it wasn't hustling cookies that got her there.

Downing

American Dreams

Family Unfriendly

How Hermann Hospital and the Texas Medical Center left employees' kids high and dry