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Nacogdoches

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2012

    Beaumont Diocese Sued Over Priest Who Allegedly Abused Teen in 1976

    A Dallas County man is suing the Roman Catholic Diocese of Beaumont, and Bishop Curtis Guillory, over sexual abuse the man allegedly suffered by a now-deceased priest in 1976-1977. Filed last week in Jefferson County District Court, the man -- identified as John Doe 104 -- claims that Father Ronald ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 17, 2012

    Logan Warren: East Texas Dude Gets Most Expensive Starbucks Drink Ever

    They say everything's bigger in Tex -- NO, we cannot bring ourselves to write that. But a Nacogdoches dude went big when he got a gift card for a free Starbucks drink. Logan Warren says he spent "about a half-hour with a laughing barista" working up the recipe, and they came up with a $23.60 concoc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2011

    Amber Osage: Police Say Cranky Caretaker Repeatedly Slugs Paralyzed Patient

    Phot by Nacogdoches County JailAmber Hope Osage: Once, twice, three times an abuser (allegedly).​ According to police in Nacogdoches, Amber Osage didn't like it when her fellow in-home caretaker and the quadriplegic man they were looking after woke her up. When they asked her to help move him ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 3, 2011

    "Mary McCleary: A Survey 1996-2011"

    Phot by Nacogdoches County JailAmber Hope Osage: Once, twice, three times an abuser (allegedly).​ According to police in Nacogdoches, Amber Osage didn't like it when her fellow in-home caretaker and the quadriplegic man they were looking after woke her up. When they asked her to help move him ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 2, 2011

    The Motor Courts & Motels Of Texas: 10 Uninviting Or Odd Postcards

    Home away from home​Motor courts were all the rage in Texas back before the days of where chain motels became as common as Starbucks in a city. You were never quite sure what you were going to get -- tiny rooms with paper-thin walls and barely functioning a/c and plumbing, or nice-enough-for- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 2, 2011

    Jeremy Myhres: Genius Turns Simple Beer Wahoo Mission into Felony

    Jeremy Myhres​According to Nacogdoches cops, 25-year-old Jeremy Myhres walked into an area Chevron Monday night, picked up an unspecified quantity of bottled beer and attempted to leave without paying. When the clerk gave chase to the gold-grilled brew-heister, Myhres turned and hurled one o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2011

    J. Patrick Capps: Allegedly Forged Documents in Brazen Attempt to Free Convicted Murderer Marcia Kelly

    J. Patrick Capps's self-posted wiki picture​The 2005 murder-for-hire of trucking company owner James Kelly was one of the most high-profile cases in recent East Texas memory. In the aftermath, Kelly's wife Marcia and stepdaughter Shaina Sepulvado received capital murder convictions and are eac ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 2, 2011

    Four Comic-Book Characters Inspired By Musicians

    ​Rocks off just can't seem to get comic books out of our blood. Between being fully immersed in Comicpalooza last weekend and trying to point out to Broadway how many other comic characters would make better and safer musicals than Spider-Man, we've regressed to being 15 with ink-stained figur ... More >>

  • News

    April 21, 2011

    A Sad East Texas Tale

    ​Rocks off just can't seem to get comic books out of our blood. Between being fully immersed in Comicpalooza last weekend and trying to point out to Broadway how many other comic characters would make better and safer musicals than Spider-Man, we've regressed to being 15 with ink-stained figur ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 12, 2011

    Lynde Chunn: Hard Luck East Texas Woman Dies On Cusp Of Personal Rebirth

    Lynde Chunn: Sing a sad song​(Be warned. In ten years here at the Houston Press, we've seldom come across a story sadder than this one.) Lynde Chunn had a tough row to hoe for many of her 28 years. The Houston-born Caney Creek High School graduate was mentally challenged but had long lived al ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2011

    Abandoned Theaters: 75 Beautiful Pictures, Including Seven From Texas

    ​Buzzfeed has scoured the net and come up with 75 great photographs of abandoned theaters across the country. Some feature amazing interiors that look ready to house a play or movie immediately; others look like forlorn abandoned warehouses. Texas is mightily represented, with seven locations ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 15, 2011

    Pedro Mendez: Convicted Cockfighter Now Accused Child Molester

    Pedro Mendez, a man of many interests​What's next in the criminal career of Pedro Mendez? The 56-year-old Nacogdoches man seems to be hell-bent on checking off every box in the "most odious crimes" category of human endeavor. Not ten months after pleading guilty to animal cruelty in a cockfi ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 28, 2010

    CraftTexas 2010

    Pedro Mendez, a man of many interests​What's next in the criminal career of Pedro Mendez? The 56-year-old Nacogdoches man seems to be hell-bent on checking off every box in the "most odious crimes" category of human endeavor. Not ten months after pleading guilty to animal cruelty in a cockfi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2010

    Game Time: Stephen F. Austin Football -- The "F" Now Stands for "Fakers"

    Dr. Nick will testify SFA players WERE really hurt​My birthday is on January 22. (I don't say this because I want you to get me anything -- although I wouldn't say NO -- I am merely pointing it out to illustrate how I feel this time of year.) Growing up, it was great having a January birthday bec ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 13, 2010

    Loon Star State: Gunsmoke On The Border, Pigeons Dropping In Nacogdoches, And More

    ​Loon Star State: Texas Small-Town Crime Round UpThe crime dates only from 1986, but the motive could be from 1886...Authorities in Rio Grande City recently arrested 53-year-old Juan Francisco Martinez for the Easter Sunday 1986 murder of Margarito Alaniz Jr. Police say that Martinez and Alaniz we ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 9, 2009

    Spirit of Season Moves East Texas Robber

    ​Ah Christmas, the time of year when even bank robbers find themselves in the spirit of giving... According to the Nacogdoches Daily Sentinel, 21-year-old Bryon Jacovin Garrett strode into the Wal-Mart branch of the Commercial Bank of Texas on Tuesday morning and handed the teller a note dema ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 9, 2009

    Lone Star Scorecard: Puzzling Over Jimmie Rodgers' "T for Texas" and Those Poor Aggies

    ​ It's time for another edition of Lone Star Scorecard, where we perform the valuable service of shining the harsh spotlight of anal retention on classic (and less so) songs about our beloved state. You're welcome. Jimmie Rodgers, "Blue Yodel #1 (T for Texas)" We're a little confused...you're app ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 18, 2009

    A Musical Guide to Post-Secession Texas: Houston and "Brazoria"

    The final installment of our Five States of Texas project brings it all back home, to the new state of Brazoria, encompassing all of Southeast Texas from the Brazos Valley to Sabine Pass. ​Patron Saint: Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown. A master of rock and roll, country, Cajun/Creole, blues and jazz, n ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 12, 2009

    NASA Killed A Cancer Cure, Suit Alleges

    The world may have known a cure to cancer ... if only that darn Columbia space shuttle didn't disintegrate over Texas six years ago and if only NASA had been a little more careful taking care of the cargo and debris that landed back on earth.At least that's what a Pennsylvania company is arguing.Acc ... More >>

  • Music

    September 25, 2008

    Rex "Wrecks" Bell Is Just Playing

    The Galveston singer-songwriter spent a lot of years on the periphery of music greatness and right in the middle of its excesses

  • Blogs

    September 15, 2008

    Silver Lining Huh?

    The Galveston singer-songwriter spent a lot of years on the periphery of music greatness and right in the middle of its excesses

  • Blogs

    August 18, 2008

    Texas Horror Movies: The Top Five

    The Galveston singer-songwriter spent a lot of years on the periphery of music greatness and right in the middle of its excesses

  • News

    January 17, 2008

    Back from Iraq with Plenty of Problems

    Paul Miles returned from Iraq needing help with the death in his head. He got prison.

  • News

    November 15, 2007

    Political Padre: Raymundo Chávez Vázquez and Illegal Immigration

    An activist Roman Catholic priest with little English is sent to conservative Aggieland

  • Blogs

    November 22, 2006

    One of Those Syrupy Thanksgiving Tales

    An activist Roman Catholic priest with little English is sent to conservative Aggieland

  • Blogs

    November 22, 2006

    One of Those Syrupy Thanksgiving Tales

    An activist Roman Catholic priest with little English is sent to conservative Aggieland

  • Music

    May 11, 2006

    Primary Season

    Check out some of the new candidates for this year's Houston Press Music Awards

  • News

    August 18, 2005

    At the Ready

    The Minutemen have come to Texas

  • News

    February 17, 2005

    Mind Reading

    Is Yvette Lacobie really a terrorist? Did legislators really mean to kick kids out for a butter knife? Is zero tolerance really stupid? (No, maybe and yes.)

  • News

    April 1, 2004

    Exit Wounds

    The gunman fled. Her point-blank panic hasn't.

  • Music

    March 18, 2004

    A Nashville Star Is Born

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

  • News

    May 22, 2003

    Letters

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

  • News

    February 6, 2003

    Last Rites

    Ghouls and grief along the Columbia debris trail

  • News

    January 30, 2003

    Last Rites

    Ghouls and grief along the Columbia debris trail

  • News

    January 30, 2003

    Peace Signs

    Third–generation activist Luchita Rodriguez and her friends find the missing rally bus — and a fresh, family-style fight against war in Iraq

  • News

    August 23, 2001

    War Dance

    Alabama-Coushatta Indians are shedding their passive ways in big bets on land claims and casinos. But some fear they could be gambling away their great tribal heritage.

  • News

    May 17, 2001

    Texas Gothic

    A timber baron's descendants head into courts and crypts in their decades-old effort to reclaim their birthright and big bucks from an arch-nemesis: his secretive third wife

  • Music

    October 19, 2000

    Out of Townes

    Emerging from Van Zandt's large shadow, Wrecks Bell finally steps into the spotlight

  • Music

    December 9, 1999

    Homeward Bound

    A trip back to Houston for Rodney Crowell is a trip back in honky-tonk time

  • News

    November 19, 1998

    The Great Sucking Sound

    Bart Sipriano's well dried up four days after Ozarka started pumpin massive amount of water nearby. Under the state's archaic "rule of capture," the East Texan has no right to complain.

  • Music

    June 11, 1998

    Graduation Day

    Bart Sipriano's well dried up four days after Ozarka started pumpin massive amount of water nearby. Under the state's archaic "rule of capture," the East Texan has no right to complain.

  • Music

    June 11, 1998

    Static

    Bart Sipriano's well dried up four days after Ozarka started pumpin massive amount of water nearby. Under the state's archaic "rule of capture," the East Texan has no right to complain.

  • Music

    May 7, 1998

    Static

    Bart Sipriano's well dried up four days after Ozarka started pumpin massive amount of water nearby. Under the state's archaic "rule of capture," the East Texan has no right to complain.

  • Music

    November 27, 1997

    Static

    Bart Sipriano's well dried up four days after Ozarka started pumpin massive amount of water nearby. Under the state's archaic "rule of capture," the East Texan has no right to complain.

  • News

    October 16, 1997

    Decrescendo

    The music has all but stopped at the once-proud Houston Conservatory

  • News

    June 19, 1997

    Letters

    The music has all but stopped at the once-proud Houston Conservatory

  • Music

    January 12, 1995

    Rotation

    The music has all but stopped at the once-proud Houston Conservatory

  • Music

    December 29, 1994

    News from Nowhere

    Clearing the desk for the New Year, and other excuses for a column

  • Music

    December 22, 1994

    Cybersurfing the Lost Highway

    Tone Zone puts its new product on-line; Ezra Charles flogs his the old-fashioned way

  • Music

    February 3, 1994

    Rounder Rock

    Tone Zone puts its new product on-line; Ezra Charles flogs his the old-fashioned way

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