Sports
January 21, 2013
Book ’Em Horns: Get Ready for Finals Edition
The newest, drunkest crimes from Campus Watch, the University of Texas police department's blotter.
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January 21, 2013
Meanwhile, in Lufkin… November Edition
Our favorite recent items from the Lufkin Daily News’s police blotter.
January 21, 2013
Stanley Marsh 3 Arrested
The Amarillo millionaire and iconoclastic "Cadillac Ranch" artist/prankster faces 11 felony charges of sexual activity with two teenage boys.
January 21, 2013
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott Files Action to Seize Warren Jeffs’s Ranch
What will happen to the fundamentalist Mormon compound?
January 21, 2013
Did You Say You Wanted to Buy Lee Harvey Oswald’s Bathtub?
The Oak Cliff apartment fixtures that witnessed the 1962-1963 fights between the assassin and his wife are on sale.
January 21, 2013
Highlights from the Wise County Messenger’s Police Blotter: August through October
From drunk landlords to "sexually-oriented games," the people of Decatur are intent on keeping Wise weird.
January 21, 2013
Highlights from the Wise County Messenger’s Police Blotter: August through October
From drunk landlords to "sexually-oriented games," the people of Decatur are intent on keeping Wise weird.
January 21, 2013
Texas Executes Fourteenth Man of 2012
Ramon Hernandez, put to death for a 2001 slaying, was also linked to three other murders, prosecutors said.
Sports
January 21, 2013
Book ’Em Horns: November Edition
The latest, greatest crimes from Campus Watch, the University of Texas police department's blotter.
January 21, 2013
Highlights from the Wise County Messenger’s Police Blotter: May through July
We return to Wise county, home to crime of all stripes, from tip jar theft to assaulting your father on Father's Day.
January 21, 2013
Meanwhile, in Lufkin…October Edition
Our favorite recent items from the Lufkin Daily News's police blotter.
January 21, 2013
Stanley Marsh 3 Embroiled in Scandal
Two lawsuits filed against the wealthy creater of the Cadillac Ranch allege that Marsh forced teenagers to perform various sexual acts.
Politics & Policy
January 21, 2013
Yard Sign Vandalism Rampant As Election Looms
With less than two weeks until the general election, signs in Lubbock and Beaumont have been defaced and stolen.
Politics & Policy
January 21, 2013
First, They Come For Your Tweets
Why members of the Huntsville city council sicced the Texas Rangers on a group of lightly-followed Twitter parody accounts.
January 21, 2013
Texas Executes Tenth Man of 2012
Jonathan Green was put to death Wednesday for the 2000 murder of a 12-year-old girl, but his lawyers maintained until the end that their client was mentally ill and thus unsuitable for execution.
Sports
January 21, 2013
Book ’Em Horns, Take Two
With OU weekend and another Longhorns home game now behind us (sigh), it's time to check in once again with Campus Watch, the University of Texas police department's blotter.
January 21, 2013
Meanwhile, in Lufkin…
Our favorite recent items from the Lufkin Daily News police blotter.
January 21, 2013
Allen Stanford’s Personal Items Up for Auction
The Ponzi schemer's personal effects, brought in from his St. Croix residence, fill some 10,000 square feet of a warehouse.
Bum Steers
January 21, 2013
Husband Threatens Cat. Wife Shoots Husband.
Audrey Deen Miller was arrested earlier this week in Spring for shooting her husband, who apparently had bad intentions towards one her felines.
January 21, 2013
The Houston Mayor’s Office Shows You How to Spot an IED
The video, targeted at first responders and those who work in the service industry, instructs people on how to spot suicide bombers.
Music
January 21, 2013
Fiona Apple Tells Her Houston Fans About Arrest
UPDATE: The Hudspeth County Sheriff's department bites back at Fiona Apple's public comments about her Sierra Blanca bust.
January 21, 2013
Breaking Sad: East Texas Chemistry Teacher Busted for Selling Meth
Linden junior high school chemistry teacher William Duncan is arrested for dealing meth, inspiring inevitable Breaking Bad comparisons.
January 21, 2013
Accused Aurora Shooter Could Have Been An Aggie
In response to an open records request by the Denver Post, Texas A&M releases James Holmes' graduate school application to its Institute of Neuroscience.
Sports
January 21, 2013
Book ’Em Horns
Highlights from two football weekend's worth of UT Campus Watch, the University of Texas police department's blotter.
January 21, 2013
Meanwhile, in Lufkin…
Our favorite recent items from the Lufkin Daily News's police blotter.
January 21, 2013
Are the FLDS Faithful Leaving Zion?
Rumors indicate that members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints may be leaving the YFZ Ranch.
January 21, 2013
Six Sex Scandals Involving Texas Teachers
The story of Kennedale High School teacher Brittni Colleps, found guilty last week of having sex with four male students while being videotaped, and five other teachers accused of sleeping with their students.
January 21, 2013
Meanwhile, in Lufkin…
Our favorite recent items from the Lufkin Daily News's police blotter.
January 21, 2013
Texas Executes Seventh Man of 2012
Marvin Wilson, an inmate with an IQ of 61 and the reasoning skills of a grade school student, was the latest to die in the Huntsville death chamber.
January 21, 2013
Assault With a Stripper Pole
A Killeen woman with a history of domestic violence charges allegedly tried to hit her boyfriend with a "pink steel stripper pole."
January 21, 2013
SMU Football Players Accuse Prostitute of Theft
Three SMU athletes claim a woman stole over $3,000 in electronics from their home after one of them didn't pay her for sexual acts.
January 21, 2013
Houston’s Juiciest Murder-For-Hire Case Is Over
The district attorney's office dropped all charges against Jeffrey Stern, a Houston personal injury lawyer who was accused of conspiring with his mistress to kill his wife, socialite Yvonne Stern.
News & Politics
January 21, 2013
Did Breast Cancer Make an El Paso Judge Break Bad?
A friend says breast cancer is the reason former El Paso County Judge Dolores Briones helped embezzle money from a program for mentally ill children.
January 21, 2013
Meanwhile, in Lufkin…
Our favorite recent items from the Lufkin Daily News' police blotter.
January 21, 2013
Meet the Alleged Copper Thieves Who Butt-Dialed 911 Mid-Crime
A 911 dispatcher tipped off police while listening to two Lufkin men discuss the copper they were reportedly stealing. Oops.
January 21, 2013
Waco Man Allegedly Eats Family Dog
A 22-year-old Waco man allegedly beat, choked, and ate parts of his family dog in a K-2-fueled rage.
January 21, 2013
Austin Tex-Mex Restaurant Allegedly Connected to Heroin Ring
The feds raided Jovitas, an old Austin establishment, and arrested fifteen people they say were involved in a heroin distribution ring.
Business
January 21, 2013
Allen Stanford Sentenced to 110 Years for Ponzi Scheme
The billionaire, convicted in March of running a $7 billion Ponzi scheme, faced up to 230 years in prison.
January 21, 2013
New A&M Study Finds “Castle Laws” Escalate Violence
Researchers from Texas A&M found that laws similar to Texas's castle doctrine actually lead to more homicides instead of deterring crime.
January 21, 2013
Shocking New Allegations in Jeffrey Stern Case
Michelle Gaiser, the mistress who is charged with collaborating with Stern on a murder-for-hire plot to kill his wife, has now been accused of taking a hit out on Stern.
January 21, 2013
Highlights from the Denton Record-Chronicle’s Police Blotter
Denton's criminal activity may be just as strange as that of Lufkin and Wise County.
January 21, 2013
Meanwhile, in Lufkin…
Our favorite recent items from the Lufkin Daily News's police blotter.
January 21, 2013
Juárez’s Last Cemetery Filling Up Quickly
Juárez needs another municipal cemetery to handle the glut of murders connected to drug violence.
News & Politics
January 21, 2013
Judge Wanted to Posthumously Exonerate Cameron Todd Willingham
Former state district judge Charlie Baird shares the 18-page exoneration order that he never got to issue with The Huffington Post.
Bum Steers
January 21, 2013
Two Strip Club Related Fatalities Make Headlines
In El Paso, a man suffers a heart attack at the Red Parrot, while in Houston a dancer known as "Pocahontas" is a murder suspect.
January 21, 2013
West Virginia Hangs Head in Shame
Politicians in West Virgina are embarrassed that Keith Judd, a federal inmate incarcerated in Texarkana, made the Democratic primary ballot.
January 21, 2013
Dallas County Teenager Attempts to Rob Police Station
Eighteen-year-old Keithan Kennard Manuel says that he was joking when he told Wilmer's police dispatcher, "Give me all your money."
January 21, 2013
Highlights from the Wise County Messenger’s Police Blotter
In which the TM Daily Post is accused of fixating on Lufkin and overlooking the weirdness of the Wise County Messenger's police blotter.
January 21, 2013
Dallas County Exonerates Two More Men
In the last ten years, DNA has exonerated 32 men from Dallas County.
January 21, 2013
Meanwhile, in Lufkin…
Our favorite recent items from the Lufkin Daily News' police blotter.