Early this morning, Laura Howard was arrested with her boyfriend because they allegedly broke into a gas station and took cigarettes sometime last week. It's been about two weeks since we published a story about Howard, who was first arrested last year after a suicide attempt at her home and ended up spending about four months in the Harris County jail.Howard was without psych meds for a large portion of her stay, unless she traded food for pills with inmates, and she quickly deteriorated. After
Plastic surgeon Billy Ringer has been sued ten times for malpractice. He's on probation for sexual misconduct. He sewed a needle into Colleen Guidy. But he's still in business -- cutting, vacuuming, rearranging and, it seems, injuring patients.
Photo by dcJohnBrookeland is a town of about 1,800, just north of Jasper. So it's small enough that when a teacher claims to have been railroaded out of a job because he's an atheist and an Obama-supporter, it doesn't take long for the rumors, trash-talk, wild accusations, and just plain weirdness to fly. Richard Mullens has taught at Brookeland High for the past six years of his 37-year teaching career. According to the principal, he's never had any complaints filed against him. But in Ja
When a veteran juvenile probation supervisor took a teenage former detainee as her live-in companion, you'd have thought authorities would be interested. They weren't.
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While anti-Vietnam protests escalated in both sides of the Atlantic , the scenario was quite different in Brazil: in March 1964, a military junta toppled democratically elected president João Goulart and installed a cruel dictatorship that stayed in power for two decades - in 1968, the government enacted AI-5, a unilateral executive act that gave it unlimited powers to arrest anyone suspected of "subversive" behavior without any kind of warrant or explanation.
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Back in July we told you about a Saudi national who had been arrested for lying on a visa application; his lie was that he told authorities he would be bringing in a woman to work for him around the house eight hours a day for $1,300 a month.Instead the feds say, he worked her for 14 hours a day, seven days a week with no days off, and kinda paid her when he felt like it, which wasn't often. During the six years the woman worked for Mohammed Abbulazz Al-Zehairi, she should have been paid more
