Results tagged “classa”

We've often driven past the corner of Allen Parkway and Shepherd and wondered just how that chunk of prime real estate has remained home to a social service agency instead of a high-dollar, high-rise apartment building. Seems the city of Houston has wondered that, too — and now it looks like the city is going to boot the Center Serving Persons with Mental Retardation and sell the property to the highest bidder. At issue here...

Remember when schools across the area were closing in anticipation of the Great Ice Storm of 2007? We told you then about a fake report from the Humble ISD regarding school closings — seems someone posing as district spokeswoman Karen Collier e-mailed a variety of media outlets to say that Humble schools would be closed for two days, resulting in a sharp attendance drop. Well, now we know who police say was responsible: Scott Franklin...

At times, we've looked at all the apartments going in downtown and wondered how many people actually lived there. The answer, according to the Chronicle, is quite a few: The occupancy rate for downtown apartments is 89 percent and seems to be growing. That's up 6 percent over last year; by contrast, demand for apartments citywide decreased by 1.7 percent in the last 12 months. The main reason: convenience. "Our kids are grown and gone,"...

If there's one thing Houstonist has learned in all our years of sweet life, it's this: When you've done something wrong, it's better to 'fess up to it than to cause more trouble and get yourself in an even bigger mess. But obviously not everyone has figured that out — take, for example, the Waltrip High School student who reportedly assaulted a deputy who was trying to give her a ticket for truancy yesterday.

The battle between the fuzz and drunks in public seems to never end, doesn't it? Earlier this year we saw the state step up its crackdown on drunks in bars, and now we hear HPD plans to increase its drunk driving enforcement. Can't be drunk in a bar, can't be drunk in a car — we guess we're just gonna have to stay home with our Mickey's from now on. The increased drunk-driving enforcement in...

From this weekend's bizarre news file comes the story of Jeremy Barfield, the Klein High School baseball star who was drafted by the New York Mets — and was arrested Sunday morning after allegedly pushing his dad down a flight of stairs. It apparently started with an argument between Jeremy and his dad, Jesse Barfield, a former MLB All-Star and Astros coach: "(Jeremy) and his father had some kind of argument that apparently took place...

From the "creepy ex-boyfriend" file comes the story of a Corpus Christi woman who got a severed human finger in the mail from her old flame, who lives in Spring. We'll leave you a moment to process whatever off-color jokes may come to mind.