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Memorial Hermann Healthcare System

  • Blogs

    March 9, 2012

    Health Department Roundup

    Last week, a commenter pointed out that we didn't include El Real's inspection report in the roundup. That was because at the time we checked out the city's database, reports ran only through February 22. El Real's inspection occurred February 28. Bitching about food is currently in second place beh ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 12, 2012

    40th Anniversary Chevron Houston Marathon

    Last week, a commenter pointed out that we didn't include El Real's inspection report in the roundup. That was because at the time we checked out the city's database, reports ran only through February 22. El Real's inspection occurred February 28. Bitching about food is currently in second place beh ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 21, 2011

    Jessie Shepherd, 24, Bayou Body Count No. 197

    Shot by five men.​One man was killed and another injured when a group of attackers fired shots at them near downtown last night, Houston police say. Jessie Shepherd, 24, was shot in the 2200 block of Briley southeast of downtown about 10:35 p.m., HPD says. He was pronounced dead at Ben Taub. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 14, 2011

    Humberto Velasquez, 66, Bayou Body Count No. 175

    Resident and security guard shoot it out.​A gunfight between an apartment resident and a security guard ended in one death Friday night, but a Harris County grand jury will determine if any charges are filed. Humberto Velasquez, 66, was killed in the shootout in the 5100 block of South Willow ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 7, 2011

    Unidentified Male Pasenger of DWI Driver, Bayou Body Count No. 173

    Photo by HPDSamuel Sanchez was drunk during fatal crash, HPD says​Houston police have charged man with intoxication manslaughter after the death of his passenger in a crash early Saturday morning. Franklin P. Canales, 50, faces the charge. The victim's name was not released pending notificati ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2011

    Halley Catherine Shaw, 27, Bayou Body Count No. 158

    Photo by HPDDaniel Palacios faces manslaughter charges​A teenager has been charged with manslaughter in the traffic death of a Texas Southern law student. Daniel Garcia Palacios, 17, was fleeing from police in a gray Buick LeSabre about 11:20 p.m. Tuesday when he ran a red light at the 4100 b ... More >>

  • News

    October 20, 2011

    Sons of Blood and Thunder

    Lee West III says he really wanted to be a member of Omega Psi Phi. But he couldn't take the beatings the underground black fraternity was handing out. By Steve Jansen

  • Blogs

    July 18, 2011

    Two Unidentified Females, 56 & 84, Bayou Body Count Nos. 104 & 105

    Deadly cab ride​A cab driver has been charged with criminally negligent homicide in the deaths of two passengers Friday afternoon, Houston police say David Wayne Houston, 56, was driving a Yellow Cab about 5 p.m. Friday on the Eastex Freeway north of Crosstimbers when he veered out of his lan ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 15, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 28, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 27, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 14, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 9, 2011

    Jonathan Hernandez, 24, Bayou Body Count No. 61

    Little information on the killers.​A Gulfton-area shooting left one man dead Thursday night, Houston police say. Jonathan Hernandez, 24, was shot multiple times in the 6000 block of Rampart about 9:20 p.m. May 5 and was pronounced dead at Memorial Hermann Hospital. Police responded to a shoo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2011

    Clint Broussard Has Blues In Hi-Fi After Car Wreck

    Lauren Summerville​Longtime KTRU disc jockey Clint Broussard, whose popular show Blues in Hi-Fi has been a Wednesday-night staple for more than 12 years, is recuperating at home after two surgeries on his leg. Broussard's leg was "separated below the knee" during a collision on U.S. 59 near th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 25, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 11, 2011

    Gabrielle Giffords: Docs Say Progress Amazing, Though Shuttle Launch Trip No Done Deal

    John Nova LomaxThe doctors face the press for an upbeat update​U.S. Rep Gabrielle Giffords has her personality back, is speaking in full sentences and has made continuous neurological improvement, her team of TIRR Memorial Hermann doctors said at a news conference at the Texas Medical Center t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 23, 2010

    Gloria Gonzales, 40, Bayou Body Count No. 158

    Nightmare for a daughter​A woman was shot to death in front of her daughter by her estranged husband, who then turned the gun on himself in a murder-suicide.Gloria Gonzales, 40 was sitting behind the wheel of her car in a parking lot on the north side of town, talking with her estranged husband wh ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 11, 2010

    Michael Williams, 18, Bayou Body Count No. 149

    Death at 6:30 in the morning​An 18-year-old answered a knock on his front door and was shot dead on the far southwest side Thursday morning. Michael Williams was at his home in the 11500 block of Keegans Ridge when he answered the knock around 6:30 a.m. "After a brief discussion with an unknown ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2010

    Cesar Hernandez, Bayou Body Count No. 144

    A stabbing on the west side​A man still on the run has been charged with murder in the stabbing death of a westside man a week ago. Jose Domingo Sanchez, 30, is charged in the death of Cesar Hernandez, no age given. Hernandez suffered multiple stab wounds and was pronounced dead at Memorial Herma ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 7, 2010

    Unidentified Male, 47, Bayou Body Count No. 142

    No seatbelts and drinking -- not a good combination​Being drunk and not wearing a seatbelt is generally not a good idea while driving.And a Houston man faces intoxication manslaughter charges after he crashed his car on the West Loop North early Saturday, killing his passenger.Louis M. Morones, Jr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 18, 2010

    Balraj Dulai Singh, 30, Justin Colby Eaton, 27 & Unidentified Male, Bayou Body Count Nos. 118-120

    Someone was waiting when the victims came home with their weed haul​A shootout over some weed resulted in three deaths early Monday on the west side of town.After the exchange of gunfire, Balraj Singh, 30 and Justin Colby Eaton, 27 were pronounced dead at the scene. A third man was taken to Memori ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 13, 2010

    Lanail Gregory Allen, 43, Bayou Body Count No. 113

    Death in the afternoon​A 43-year-old man died after being shot on the west side of town Tuesday afternoon.The shooting took place in the 7900 block of Locke Lane about 3 p.m., police say.The victim, Lanail Gregory Allen, 43, of Houston, was transported to Memorial Hermann Southwest Hospital where ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 10, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 30, 2010

    Another Day, Another Awkward Annise Parker Statement On HPD

    Not exactly a low-key week for the new chief​Fresh off a low-key description of what's described as a "horrific" beating of a teen-age burglary suspect by Houston Police, Mayor Annise Parker has once again been forced to acknowledge some alleged HPD misbehavior.In the wake of reports that HPD offi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2010

    Joshua McMackle, 18, Bayou Body Count No. 84

    ​Police are scrambling to find out who fired the shots that killed a Texas Southern University student at a party over the weekend.Joshua McMackle, an 18-year-old freshman, was gunned down early Saturday morning at a large street party held along the 3700 block of Wheeler, one block west of the Un ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 4, 2010

    What? Someone Actually Gonna Do Time For Identity Theft?

    ​Nakeshia Brown, a 30-year-old Houston woman, has been sentenced for stealing the identities of patients while working as a nurse at Memorial Hermann Hospital. The Houston Press wrote about Brown's case in a cover story about identity theft, published in June of last year. The story highlighted th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 4, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 20, 2009

    More Ugly Trouble For That Doctor From The Wholesome TV Ads

    ​Houston's wackiest, silliest married couple is at it again: Last Sunday night, Rachel Brown, wife of cocaine-enthusiast and medical-license-losing former surgeon Michael Brown (star of local television ads featuring his kids) called 911 because, per the offense report, "her husband is trying to k ... More >>

  • News

    October 8, 2009

    Ghost Riders: Way of Life

    Leigh Boone rode her bike everywhere she went.

  • Blogs

    July 29, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 23, 2009

    The TSU Trae Day Shootings: A Near-Eyewitness Account

    Rocks Off just got off the phone with our man Shea Serrano, reporting from the Trae Day afterparty at Galleria-area nightclub the Roxy. He found an eyewitness - or at least someone who was close enough to the action Wednesday to have the living shit scared out of him - to Wednesday evening's shootin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2009

    Bayou Body Count: Trouble Out On The Roads

    It's said that at 3 a.m. there are just a few basic types of people on the road: those leaving a bar, those who are up to no good, and the cops who are trying to catch them both. That seemed to be the situation early yesterday morning when a case of road rage turned deadly. Alfredo Vasquez an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 26, 2009

    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 >>

  • News

    June 25, 2009

    ID Theft

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

  • Blogs

    March 18, 2009

    Carl Landry Shot in Leg, Not by Own Gun

    Photo by dubswede Carl Landry, the second year Rockets forward, was shot in the leg while driving home early this morning. And, no, he did not Plaxico Burress himself in the leg, somebody else shot him. The shooting happened at about 2:30 this morning. Landry was heading home after getting back int ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 9, 2008

    Top Five Beatdowns in Houston Sports

    Photo by dubswede Carl Landry, the second year Rockets forward, was shot in the leg while driving home early this morning. And, no, he did not Plaxico Burress himself in the leg, somebody else shot him. The shooting happened at about 2:30 this morning. Landry was heading home after getting back int ... More >>

  • News

    May 8, 2008

    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.

  • News

    April 10, 2008

    More Banned Books in Texas Prisons, and Cactus Jack Gets Sued

    We get answers! Some make sense!

  • Blogs

    December 26, 2007

    Bald-Faced Guys: Hilton Koch and Sam Malone

    We get answers! Some make sense!

  • News

    October 25, 2007

    Death at West Oaks Hospital

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

  • News

    January 25, 2007

    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.

  • News

    March 30, 2006

    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.

  • Resolutions

    January 19, 2006

    Fit or Fat, Houston?

    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.

  • News

    January 23, 2003

    Showdown at the Bar X

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

  • News

    January 9, 2003

    Back in the Saddle

    A former mayoral staffer resurfaces at the county

  • News

    October 10, 2002

    Best Wishes

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

  • Film

    January 17, 2002

    Script Doctor

    Pavan Grover jumps from cellular world to the celluloid world

  • News

    January 3, 2002

    Playing by Heart

    Joseph Samuels never had any musical training. But five years ago he sat down at a piano, and people have been listening ever since.

  • News

    September 6, 2001

    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

  • News

    September 21, 2000

    Letters 09-21-2000

    Listen to the Music, Still Fuming, Building Bonds

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