Morning Roundup: Monks behaving badly edition

Good morning, Houston. If anyone out there's looking for a show idea to pitch to MTV, may we suggest The Real World: Monsatery? Based on the statements of Hugh Brian Fallon, a monk from Blanco, The Christ of the Hills monastery would fit right in with the Real World drama: Fallon told authorities that fellow monk Samuel Greene encouraged sex among the monks, offered people marijuana when they were having problems and faked tears on a statue of the Virgin Mary using an eyedropper. For the record, this doesn't really come as a surprise — Greene is serving 10 years' probation after pleading guilty to indecency with a child, and another monk, Jonathan Hitt, is in jail in connection with the same case; Greene, Hitt and three others were also charged last year with sexual assault of a child and with engaging in organized crime. No wonder Mary needed to cry.

>> A 'go getter': About 1,000 people gathered Saturday to remember Tynesha Stewart, the A&M student whose ex-boyfriend confessed to killing her last month. Friends said Stewart was a woman with goals: "I have had millions of interactions with thousands of kids, and I can honestly tell you I have never met a more determined graduate," said Ken Knippel, principal of Nimitz High School, Stewart's alma mater. "She had a plan. She did something each and every day to reach her goals." Debbie Jackson, the coach of the Nimitz girls' basketball team, said she would miss Stewart's "go getter" attitude: "She wasn't going to wait for something to happen," Jackson said.

>> Development slated for NASA Parkway: A Houston developer has bought 12 low-rise buildings just south of the Johnson Space Center and has plans to demolish them and build a $150 million mixed-use development on the site, a project that could serve as "the front door to NASA," according to a real estate broker. The project could include a hotel, retail space, office space and apartments when it's finished; developer Edward Griffin said office and retail demand will come from residential development in the area and from new jobs resulting from Lockheed Martin's work on NASA's new Orion spacecraft. "There are a lot of new rooftops [in the area], and that bodes well for retail," Griffin said.

>> What are the odds?: Since the news came out that the only winning ticket for a $75 million Texas Lottery jackpot was sold at a convenience store in League City, the store has gotten a sharp increase in business from people wanting to get in on a piece of the action. Seems folks are saying the store — the Quick Mart at 2100 FM 2094, for your reference — is a lucky spot, which is apparently a more common reaction than you'd think. "Once a store sells a jackpot-winning ticket, that store gets a lot of traffic," state Lottery Commission spokeswoman Leticia Vasquez said. "People perceive it as a lucky store." And who knows? Maybe lightning can strike twice in the same store.

>> This week's weather: Other than Tuesday, this looks like one of those really nice spring weeks: Look for a lot of sunshine and temperatures in the mid-to-high 70s today, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. On Tuesday, we'll have a 50 percent chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon, but they should clear out by early Wednesday morning. Overall, not too bad, we'd say. Today's high should be 75; tonight, look for a low around 57 with clouds moving in late.

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