Do cats have nine lives? A 42-year-old Spring woman was not inclined to find out.

Has someone in the Houston mayor's office been watching too much Homeland? Dave Fehling of StateImpact Texas points towards a bizarre ad produced by the City of Houston with Homeland Security funding. (This particular video actually was released in February 2011, some nine months before the first episode of the award-winning Showtime series aired.

Update, 1:45 p.m.

Guess we have to score this one, Hudspeth County Sheriff's department 2, Fiona Apple 0.

As TMZ reported, HCSD public information officer Rusty Fleming has responded to Apple's public comments about her Sierra Blanca drug bust (as outlined further down this post). 

According to TMZ:

"Arrests for alcohol up in wake of A&M loss," was the headline on a story in the Bryan-College Station Eagle Monday.

Well, duh. Talk about dog-bites-man.

We’re not sure if more strange things necessarily happen in Lufkin than in other small towns, but the person behind the Lufkin Daily News’s police blotter has a great appreciation for the absurd.

The crime in Lufkin ranges from the very mundane to the very bizarre, and nearly each day the police blotter seems to contain a new gem. We’ve compiled our favorites from August below:

Last Friday, a former Kennedale High School teacher's trial—filled with graphic testimony and an alleged cellphone video of the woman having group sex with four students—concluded with a five-year prison sentence.

We’re not sure if more strange things necessarily happen in Lufkin than in other small towns, but the person behind the Lufkin Daily News's police blotter has a great appreciation for the absurd.

The crime in Lufkin ranges from the very mundane to the very bizarre, and nearly each day the police blotter seems to contain a new gem. We’ve compiled our favorites from July below:

Marvin Wilson, a 54-year-old inmate whose attorneys insist his low IQ should have disqualified him from the death penalty, was executed last night. He was the seventh man to be taken to Texas's death chamber this year.

"Strippercising" may be practically mundane these days—there's even a "Pole Dancing for Jesus" class in Spring—but it turns out there's a downside to the now-widespread availability of suitable-for-home-use stripper poles, whether you obtain them from Carmen Electra or a sporting goods distribut

Sometimes, the bum steers write themselves. On Thursday's 6'o clock news, the Dallas-Fort Worth CBS affiliate ran a segment on three SMU football players who say that a prostitute stole items from their house back in April.