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  • County Attorney Candidate Vince Ryan Sues Linebarger Goggan
    Saying he deserves a bigger piece of the pie, the former city councilman serves up cherry information to his current political opponent
    Thursday, June 12
    Vince Ryan wants to be your county attorney. He also wants $7.5 million from the law firm that fired him. So last April, Ryan, a former city... More >>
  • College Immaterial for High School Students in Vocational Training
    Good paying jobs, no huge loan burdens, exciting course work — the new vo-tech attracts more and more hi-tech students
    Thursday, May 15
    Ask 19-year-old high-school senior Andy Garza about his career plans, and he's anything but vague. Petroleum process technician, he'll say, then... More >>
  • 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.
    Thursday, May 08
    Amanda Lilley was only six years old and could be loving, sweet and delightful, requiring hugs of any visitors before they left her house. But... More >>
  • Doctors vs. Parents: Who Decides Right to Life?
    Following surgery, Sabrina Martin's condition went south. And then, her family says, Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital set about arranging for her demise.
    Thursday, May 01
    Darrin Murray was racing around the recovery room at Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital in a blind panic. His teenage stepdaughter was in agony... More >>
  • Cleaning Up Foreclosed Homes After the Mortgage Crisis
    Junk haulers expand their business in the wake of evictees leaving behind houses in terrible condition
    Thursday, April 24
    Victor Correa approached the abandoned house with caution. The lawn was overgrown, and various pieces of junk — a broken charcoal grill... More >>

National

News from Coast to Coast

Broward - Palm Beach

Shark Huggers

Tourists can't wait to get next to them – even if they are eating machines
Markus Groh felt uneasy aboard the M/V Shear Water. A buddy had talked him into booking a... More >>

Cleveland

Baseball: Where have all the black guys gone?

It's a miserable day for baseball. From a purple sky, cold bullets of rain spray the Brush... More >>

Dallas

The Man Who Would Be King

Freddy Haynes seemed a shoo-in to lead the NAACP. Then Obama's ex-pastor came to town.
On a Sunday morning not long ago, in a part of the city mostly ignored and forgotten, they... More >>

Denver

Doctor Eternity

If Terry Grossman lives forever, he wants you to be there to see it.
My quest for eternal life begins at 8 a.m. in a place called the Grossman Wellness Center, with... More >>

Kansas City

Former KC Mayor Kay Barnes tries to sell her small-town roots in her run for Congress

A couple of Amish guys ride a horse-powered hayrack past the snow-covered town square in... More >>

Miami

Shark Huggers

Tourists can't wait to get next to them — even if they are eating machines.
Markus Groh felt uneasy aboard the M/V Shear Water. A buddy had talked him into booking a... More >>

Minneapolis

Haley Bonar lets the sun shine in

Our summer girl is set up to be a Big Star
It's summertime, and Haley Bonar is coming out to play. After a long, cold winter,... More >>

Phoenix

There's no good proof the real Medium, Allison DuBois, has ever cracked a case, but her fans don't care

In the summer of 2006, metropolitan Phoenix was under siege. Two serial killers stalked the... More >>

San Francisco

A Time to Kill

The SPCA is struggling to finance a new hospital, and one way to save money is to speed up euthanasia.
When feral kittens are put up for adoption at the San Francisco Society for the Prevention of... More >>

Blog

Houstoned

Wayne Dolcefino and Other "Celebs" I Have Spotted

Fri Jun 13, 9:03 AM

My younger brother, who recently moved to Los Angeles, called me the other day. “I have an only-in-LA story for you,? he told me. “What?? “I was at a street festival and I saw Heidi Fleiss...man, she looked rough.?... More >>

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  • Hippie Cops and Loan Sharks
    No beards allowed at HPD
    Thursday, June 12
    We've reported before about how Houston Police Chief Harold Hurtt was pissing officers off with his campaign banning tattoos and beards, but now... More>>
  • Machinist and Truck Drivers
    The College Question
    Thursday, June 12
    Online readers respond to "College Immaterial," by Todd Spivak, May 15. Slap: Thank you so much for publishing this. HISD's motto, "Creating a... More>>
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    Thursday, June 12
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Letters

Machinist and Truck Drivers
Thursday, June 12
Online readers respond to "College Immaterial," by Todd Spivak, May 15. Slap: Thank you so much for publishing this. HISD's motto, "Creating a... More >>

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