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Cover Story: Mental Anguish at Texas West Oaks Hospital

Troubled Jail Inmate Arrested Again

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 u ... More >>

Case Closed?

A year later, there's still only one suspect in the killing of HPD's Alan Mabry

What Really Happened To Rodeny Hulin?

Since his death, teenage inmate Rodney Hulin has become a national symbol of why it's wrong to send juveniles to adult prisons. His true story, though, paints a different kind of troubling picture.

Working With A God: How That New Musical By Pixies' Frontman Came About

Photo by Keith PlocekWe told you yesterday about how Pixies founder Black Francis is collaborating with Houston's Catastrophic Theatre on a new musical play. Now we have the details of how the seemingly improbable event came about.Jason Nodler, formerly of Infernal Bridegroom but now the heart (or, ... More >>

Working With A God: How That New Musical By Pixies' Frontman Came About

Photo by Keith PlocekWe told you yesterday about how Pixies founder Black Francis is collaborating with Houston's Catastrophic Theatre on a new musical play. Now we have the details of how the seemingly improbable event came about.Jason Nodler, formerly of Infernal Bridegroom but now the heart (or, ... More >>

Exit Strategy

Deena Nichols organized everything in her life. And when life spun out of control, she organized her death.

Michael Berry vs. Bill White

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Christopher Titus

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Merry Christmas, George Bailey

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Fic at NiteBoomsday

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Soldier Suicides

Surviving our War on Terror calls for more than an ability to dodge bullets and IEDs

Chris Grabenstein

The author of Mad Mouse signs his new adult title, Hell Hole, and new young adult release, The Crossroads

Robert Crais

Did everything go horribly, horribly wrong in Chasing Darkness?

A New Retreat for the ManKind Project Houston

The organization settles a lawsuit, says it'll make changes

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.

Nipples to the Wind

Coco and Anderson deliver a night of silliness

He'd Better Be Rich

Coco and Anderson deliver a night of silliness

CRACKED UP

Gary Webb's reporting on CIA ties to cocaine destroyed his life, too

Baby Blues

Lisa Collins took the Paxil her doctor prescribed. There was supposed to be no problem with her continuing it during her pregnancy. Now, it seems, there was.

People Are Strange

Diane Arbus taps into the weirdness of us all

Benefit for the Children of Danny Armantrout, Featuring Simpleton and Dinosaur Salad

Saturday, July 5

A Hanging Offense

Did the Devereux Treatment Center provide the care Cecilia Garrett needed or did it drive the young teenager to her death?

Steal This Movie

Studios don't get the Upright Citizens, which isn't funny at all

The Private Trial of Donald Davis

A Houston attorney who specialized in saving killers' lives couldn't handle his own. So he took it.

Downing

Texas Lottery. Let's buy our tickets and bet on the day that Robert Arthur Pearson finally kills himself in public while we all watch

Mad Dog's Demise

Alan Mabry was a man on a mission. His death last month left friends, colleagues and authorities baffled -- as did his obsessive life.

Bayou Body Count: Death Doesn't Take A Holiday

Unfortunately, murder doesn't recognize holiday weekends, as evidenced by the following homicide investigations recently opened by area law enforcement.A man was killed following a shootout with Humble police late this morning. Details are limited, but the incident occurred outside an employment off ... More >>

Israeli Film Festival

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Dillinger Is Dead

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Kathryn Casey

This Houstonian and true-crime writer turns her sights on the world of fiction

Noncombat Deaths: Another Casualty of War

The mass shooting at Fort Hood was just one of a growing number of troubling military deaths, murders and suicides.

Possible Suicide After Police Chase, Bayou Body Count No. 11

​You'd think that you would be jumping for joy if you successfully outran the cops in high-speed car chase.Apparently, you'd be wrong.In the early morning hours on Monday, police found the body of a man in a storage shed at 5815 Hirondel who appeared to have shot himself. He was also the same man ... More >>

Suicide Notes Movie Sneak Peek Party

So, the deal is I'll be dead but really famous?

The Energy

So, the deal is I'll be dead but really famous?

Thomas Robert Tarver, 43, Bayou Body Count No. 117

Friends for years, until the murder-suicide​An apparent murder-suicide on the far west side early Friday morning is still being investigated by police.Kelly Edward Allen, 50, and Thomas Robert Tarver, 43, had been friends "for years," HPD says.In the pre-dawn hours Friday, Allen went to Tarver's h ... More >>

Edwina Foster, 43, Bayou Body Count No. 140

A foul odor reveals a murder-suicide​A 43-year-old woman was shot dead by a 67-year-old man who then killed himself, police say.Houston police went to the Mainridge Apartments in the 2600 block of Westridge 12:45 p.m. Friday after residents complained of a foul odor.After forcing their way into th ... More >>

The Case of Blue October

Readers take both sides.

Lisa Williams, 41, Bayou Body Count No. 195

Murder-suicide near the South Sam Houston Tollway​A man got into an argument with his ex-wife, shot her several times in the back and then apparently took his own life, police said.Lisa Williams, 41, was at her home in the 16100 block of Bantam Ridge Court on the southwest side of town when she an ... More >>

The Hours

Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf? Virginia, for one.

13-Year-Old's Suicide

Readers comment on bullying tragedy.

Jan Lim, 59, Bayou Body Count No. 271

Murder-suicide in midst of a divorce​A man killed his estranged wife and then committed suicide on the southwest side Monday night, police say. HPD was called to the couple's home at the intersection of Dairy Ashford and Huntington Venture by the man's brother, who had found their bodies. Po ... More >>

Deborah Armstrong, 59, Bayou Body Count No. 273

Murder-suicide on the west side, HPD says​Houston police are investigating what they call "an apparent murder-suicide" on the west side Friday morning. Deborah Armstrong, 59, was found in her home in the 14500 block of Chadbourne Drive with "gunshot wounds in her back" and was pronounced dead ... More >>

Wilson Sauzo: The Last Defendant in the La Potra Sex-And-Drug-Trafficking Case Gets Three Years

Headed behind bars.​The last defendant in the cases surrounding La Potra, a Houston bar accused of being the center of drug- and sex-trafficking, was sentenced to three years in federal prison. Wilson Sauzo, 29, was convicted on cocaine-running charges. Four others involved in the case were ... More >>

Unidentified Female, 26, Bayou Body Count No. 58

Murder-suicide in Kingwood​A 26-year-old Kingwood woman was shot several times and killed by the man she was living with, who then turned the gun on himself and committed suicide, Houston police say. Identities are being withheld, but the incident happened in the 5400 block of Forest Spring D ... More >>

Unidentified Female in Murder-Suicide, Bayou Body Count No. 70

Murder-suicide on the east side​A woman was killed this morning on the east side by a man who then committed suicide, police say. The names of the couple have not been released, but Houston police say the incident happened about 8:30 this morning in the 12700 block of Woodforest. The two, ap ... More >>

Unidentified Male in Murder-Suicide, Bayou Body Count No. 154

Fox 26's take on it.​Two men were dead after a murder-suicide on the west side last night, Houston police say. Their names have not been released pending notification of family members, but they were discovered about 10:40 p.m. in the 6300 block of Deerwood Road, near the Houston Country Club ... More >>

Abe Fiszer: Houston Fire Department Captain Resigns After Kiddy Porn Bust

HPDAbe Fiszer: 14-year-old Wyoming girl called him "daddy" in sexts, according to complaint​According to a criminal complaint on file in the Harris County Courthouse, Saul Abraham "Abe" Fiszer, an 18-year-veteran of the Houston Fire Department, had been struggling with pornography addiction f ... More >>