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January 18, 1996
In the Child's Best Interest
A legal technicality sent Donnie and DeAnne Fitts to a Houston court seeking to adopt Justin and Jacob Baker - again. Twelve jurors agreed that outcome would be the best for the children. Judge Bill Henderson didn't quite see it that way.
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January 22, 1998
Critical Diagnosis
If you think your HMO is bad, check out what Texas has created for its prison inmates
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October 16, 2008
InPrint Studio Series: Karen Shepard and Cate Marvin
These two UH Creative Writing Program grads read from their latest books
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June 5, 2008
The Splasher
The Catastrophic Theatre Company’s on a roll
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January 10, 2008
Immigration: Cubans Enter U.S. at Texas-Mexico Border
The Catastrophic Theatre Company’s on a roll
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January 19, 2006
Midnight Thugs
The Catastrophic Theatre Company’s on a roll
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March 11, 2004
The Icebox Revisited
Houston had one of its most shocking race murders 45 years ago. But exactly whose tragedy was it?
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May 24, 2001
Rejected
Thousands of inmates rely annually on a capricious parole board for their freedom. Most, like George Dismukes, return to their cells without ever knowing why they were denied.
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April 20, 2000
Absent a Mother
A judge says Karen Shrader can't see or talk to her children because she's a bad influence. Shrader says any “bad influence” comes from the application of her ex-husband's deep pockets to the East Texas legal system.
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May 6, 1999
Dead, Dead, Dead
The police killings of Pedro Oregon, Ida Lee Delaney and Byron Gillum
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July 9, 2009
Kidnapped
Texan Larry Plake went out to one offshore oil job too many and ended up held for ransom in the Nigerian jungle.
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August 20, 2009
You've Heard It Effin' Before: Cops Wash Out With Soap Another Galveston County Potty-Mouth
We really thought we wouldn't be writing again about people getting into trouble with the law in Galveston County because they cursed. But goshdarnit, it just keeps popping up.Whether it's a frustrated woman in a Wal-Mart, a guy arguing over his neighbor's dog poop, or even a guy from fuckin' Que ... More >>
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January 8, 2010
Exotic Texas Gulf Coast Crime Round-Up: Zip-Tied Kids, Flipping Out In Victoria, And Santa Punishes A Pedophile
Photo courtesy of Cameron County Sheriff's Office Juan Luis SanchezA few awful items and weird crime tidbits from the Texas Gulf Coast... A Brownsville jury convicted 27-year-old Juan Luis Sanchez on ten counts of possession of child pornography. Sanchez's predilection was discovered not ... More >>
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January 14, 2010
True Confessions?
Seventeen years ago, Charles Raby said he killed an old lady. Now he's not so sure.
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February 25, 2010
Thank God He's An Idiot
Child-porn producer pleads guilty
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February 25, 2010
Victims' Wrongs: Injured parties in Harris County say plea bargains go on behind their backs
Some injured parties in Harris County say plea bargains go on behind their backs and without their approval.
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April 6, 2010
A Jury Of Billy Joe Shaver's Peers
Jury selection began this morning in the aggravated assault trial of country legend Billy Joe Shaver, who was charged after he shot a man in the face outside of a Lorena bar in 2007. Shaver's attorney, Dick DeGuerin, maintains Shaver shot Billy Bryant Coker in self-defense. All Hair Balls knows is, ... More >>
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April 8, 2010
Baseball on the Brain
Readers are gearing up for the Astros' 2010 season.
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April 8, 2010
The AIDS-Spreading German Popstar And Four Other Horrifying Rock Legends
Hanging out backstage with Ronan Harris of VNV Nation last Sunday, his synth-excellency imparted a tale that Rocks Off hoped to the gods was not true, and led us down the path of myth and rumor to bring you a list of five of the most horrifying legends in pop-music lore. The tale Ronan told is th ... More >>
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April 15, 2010
The Warriors
Where else can you get this kind of carnage for less than ten bucks?
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May 24, 2010
Sheriff Adrian Garcia Touts Department's Move Into The 21st Century
Welcome to the 21st century, crooksThe Harris County Sheriff's Office threw a little soiree for the media Monday afternoon to trumpet the department's apparent success using DNA collected at crime scenes to solve burglaries.But the real lesson Hair Balls took away from the announcement is this: T ... More >>
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June 3, 2010
Homeless High
On the Furr campus, kids are getting the chances they need.
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June 10, 2010
Cowboy Down
Rob Krentz's family talks about the life and death of the murdered Arizona rancher.
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July 9, 2010
"Fashionable Felon"? You Call This Fashionable, FBI?
Photo courtesy FBITerrible lighting, awful pose -- this is a fashion shoot?The FBI has put out an alert for someone it's calling "The Fashionable Felon," a woman who robbed a Wachovia Bank branch on the northwest side yesterday afternoon.We realize the FBI was not created to be an arbiter of fash ... More >>
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July 13, 2010
Ramiro C. Lozano, World's Dumbest Child Pornographer, Gets 20 Years
Won't be smiling for longMost child pornographers are caught when law enforcement gains access to private, secure web groups.Then there are the child pornographers who get caught when they pass out on the side of the road in a car filled with their sick handiwork.Ramiro C. Lozano, 47, of Brownsvi ... More >>
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August 12, 2010
Seized
Inside the brutal world of America's kidnapping capital
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August 18, 2010
Rio Grande Mud: Cops, Mayors and Judges Busted For Corruption, DWI And Whoring All Over Valley
Froget it, Jake. It's just the ValleyOn moving to Miami during that city's Cocaine Cowboy heyday, a friend once described the place thusly: "You are nobody here until you are under indictment."As the frontline for the drug war has shifted from Colombia and South Florida to Mexico and South Texas, ... More >>
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August 26, 2010
Asylum Denied
Unlike refugees from other troubled countries, only a fraction of Mexicans seeking U.S. asylum are accepted – no matter how horrible their wounds or their stories.
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August 27, 2010
The Stern-Gaiser Affair: HPD Arrests Alleged Shooter
Photo courtesy HCSOMichelle Gaiser, alleged criminal mastermindA fifth suspect has been arrested in connection with events surrounding the alleged murder-for-hire plot of Yvonne Stern, the Bellaire trial lawyer's wife who survived three recent attempted hits.Houston police say that 26-year-old Da ... More >>
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September 8, 2010
Valley Sheriffs Want To Search Southbound Cars, Too
Be careful headin' southBe careful if you're driving south with your guns and life savings. If some sheriffs have their way, county cops could take it all away.Late last week, sheriffs from Cameron County and El Paso County announced that they would love it if deputies started inspecting every ca ... More >>
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September 23, 2010
Pinalcchio
Renowned forensics experts say a Pinal County deputy's high-profile tale about getting shot after encountering drug smugglers doesn't add up
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December 2, 2010
Witchy Woman
Weirdo, chola, pop princess, MySpace sensation...La Catrin is Houston's newest goth star.
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December 8, 2010
The 10 Worst Burglary Neighborhoods In Houston (For The Moment)
What are the best neighborhoods to live in if you want to get burglarized? We've gathered 10 of the finest. We looked at the most recent crime stats for HPD beats, which means the month of October. HPD generally doesn't like "raw data comparisons between police beats" because the info can be ... More >>
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December 9, 2010
Montrose Murder
Paul Broussard's killer, up for parole, may not be model prisoner.
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December 16, 2010
Cloaked Brutality
The feds bury border patrol abuses of immigrants, but what’s been unearthed reveals a culture of cruelty.
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December 23, 2010
Juggalo Hijinks
A Facebook crime spree.
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January 6, 2011
The Devil in DMX
Can the celebrated rapper get out of trouble long enough to top the charts again?
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January 31, 2011
Jeffrey Stern: Bellaire Attorney Indicted in Failed Murder-for-Hire Plot Against Wife
HPDJeffrey Stern, accused in murder-for-hire plotOver six months after the arrest of his mistress Michelle Gaiser, prominent Bellaire attorney Jeffrey Stern has been indicted on two counts of solicitation of capital murder in the attempts to take the life of his wife, Yvonne Stern. Harris Co ... More >>
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February 1, 2011
Miranda Phillips: Poses As Medical Pro in Attempt to Score Purple Drank
Miranda Phillips: Not a trained medical professionalAlthough Miranda Phillips claimed to be working for a doctor in Livingston, employees at the Lufkin Walmart's pharmacy thought something was fishy about her phoned-in request for a prescription last December. She told the pharmacist that s ... More >>
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March 2, 2011
Cover Story: Connecting H Gallery to Three Prominent Recent Art Scams
This week's feature is the account of an alleged art heist conducted by an art gallery in the Heights. Over a dozen local and Texas artists claim that Heidi Powell-Prera and her mother Sandy Bernstein, the owner/operators of H Gallery on West 19th Street, have been scamming artists for the la ... More >>
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March 3, 2011
Luis Enrique Ramirez: Border Guard Admits Letting Coke and Aliens In
Right this way, and don't forget to tip your agentA Border Patrol agent has admitted he waved through a car full of cocaine and helped aliens cross into the U.S. which, to be honest, is pretty clearly against the law. Luis Enrique Ramirez, 38, of Brownsville, entered a guilty plea today, say ... More >>
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July 5, 2011
Rashad Minix, 20, Bayou Body Count No. 95
Shot near TSUAn alleged drive-by shooting near the Texas Southern University campus early Sunday morning left one person dead. Rashad Minix, 20, was killed in the incident in the 3400 block of Rosedale about 1:30 a.m. Sunday, Houston police say. Another man injured in the shooting was expect ... More >>
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July 8, 2011
Raul Leal: Immigrant Detention Center Officer Kicked Detainee in the Face, Breaking Skull, Feds Say
The Port Isabel Detention Center has long been the subject of complaints.A former officer at the Port Isabel Detention Center kicked a detainee in the face, breaking a bone in his skull, and then lied to investigators, federal prosecutors alleged today. Raul Leal, 31, was arrested without in ... More >>
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August 16, 2011
Robert L. Hedrick: Pan Am's Big Comeback Likely Stalled With Its President's Child-Porn Indictment
A child-porn indictment qualifies as a wrench in the plansRobert L. Hedrick made a big splash last October, inviting former Pan Am employees back to Brownsville's original pan Am building to announce the creation of an airline with a similar name that had plans to fly routes from that city to ... More >>
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August 18, 2011
Om Prakash Budha: Faces Prison over Refusals to Fill Out Visa Forms
Man, Om Prakash Budha, 28, does not want to go back to Nepal. He was nabbed in October 2010 crossing the U.S. border at Brownsville without proper documentation. Fine, you got caught, go home and try again, right? Wrong. "On four separate occasions during a four-month period, Budha steadfastly ref ... More >>
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November 3, 2011
Lost Boys
New research demolishes the stereotype of the underage sex worker — and sparks an outbreak of denial among child-sex-trafficking alarmists nationwide.
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December 1, 2011
Hands-On Experience
Dozens of teenage Explorers have been sexually abused by police officers. Critics say the Boy Scouts, who oversee the program, should share the blame.
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January 17, 2012
Michael Ray Cooper, 28, Bayou Body Count No. 8
Shot to death by a visitorA man was shot to death in his Sunnyside home Sunday evening, police say. Michael Ray Cooper, 28, had a visitor to his home in the 3600 block of Bloomfield about noon Sunday. "At some point during the visit, the suspect shot and killed Cooper," HPD says. "After the ... More >>
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