By Craig Malisow

Less than 24 hours after Loraine Franklin fell on the kitchen floor of her Georgetown home, she was dead. It was December 29, 2011, and Franklin's daughters say today that, had… More >>

By Brittanie Shey, Katharine Shilcutt, Sean Pendergast and Abby Downing-Beaver

Also check out our Summer Guide event listings, concert listings and movie previews. Beyond the Bridges Adventurers are rediscovering the wilderness of Buffalo Bayou right in the middle of the city. By Brittanie… More >>

COURTS Brown Case Gets Uglier Yes, it's possible By Craig Malisow In the roughly 87 years we've been covering allegations of cocaine-absorbing, pregnant-wife-pummeling, creepy-sex-advice-spouting, alleged-stripper-banging, medical-license-losing doctor Michael Glyn Brown, we've yet to see… More >>

By John Nova Lomax

It's a sweltering Cinco de Mayo in Katy's City Park, and on a dusty baseball diamond, Larry Joe "Long Ball" Miggins steps up to the plate with two men on… More >>

By John Nova Lomax

The most colorful and certainly most obscure of Houston's baseball eras would come to an end in 1905, when competition would move to West End Park, which stood on the… More >>

By John Nova Lomax

You never know what might happen when you go to cover a vintage base ball game. Early in the second game of the Babies' two-game slate, one of the "cranks"… More >>

COURTS "Duck Taco" Lawsuit Deputy endured forced motorboating, suit says By Richard Connelly A former deputy to Galveston County Constable Pam Matranga has sued her, claiming she sexually harassed him by, among other things,… More >>

CRIME Friends Like These Woman sexes hospitalized pal's teen By Richard Connelly When her good friend was hospitalized, Karen Lee Carstens volunteered to help watch her 13-year-old son. For two years, cops say, she and… More >>