• About 1,400 Flower Mound residents lost power thanks to a hungry squirrel that chewed through an electrical wire.
  • The dash-cam video of a Rosenberg police officer stopping to play a quick game of toss with a solitary boy went viral.
  • A woman in Spring punished her foul-mouthed twelve-year-old son by making him stand at an intersection holding a sign that read, “I was suspended from school for cussing out my teacher.”
  • Cormac McCarthy’s ex-wife, a UT–El Paso grad, was arrested after an argument with her boyfriend about space aliens, during which she allegedly pulled a handgun out of her vagina and pointed it at him.
  • A Hewitt man was struck by a vehicle while walking home from an accident that had disabled the car he was riding in.
  • A Lamar County Sheriff’s Department sketch artist crafted a crude drawing of a robbery suspect that a deputy admitted “looks like a cartoon.”
  • A Houston firefighter put out a fire on an eighteen-wheeler, which was transporting Coors Banquet beer, by pouring some of the truck’s cargo on the flames.