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Houston rapper Lil' Flip is in some trouble, the Chronicle reports: Lil' Flip (whose real name is Wesley Eric Weston Jr.) turned himself in to police on a charge of credit card abuse this weekend, and he's due in court today. Weston, known as the "freestyle king" for his ability to improvise, is accused of buying a $671 Southwest Airlines ticket to Baltimore from Houston on June 8 with an American Express card held by...

Texas Senator John Cornyn announced yesterday at the Harris County Courthouse that he has a bill in the works that would prevent incarcerated felons from making a profit of their personal belongings or art - "murderabilia," if you will. The bill is championed by victims' rights organizations, but the constitutionality of such a law is questionable. Houston victims' rights advocate and director of the Mayor's Crime Victims Office Andy Kahan has been fighting the sale...

The Chronicle had an interesting story Sunday on an ongoing project downtown: the restoration of the old Harris County Courthouse, an impressive building that opened in 1910 and has been remodeled, subdivided and otherwise defaced in the decades since then. The restoration began last year, after the county civil courts moved to a new building on Caroline Street, and it's expected to be complete by Nov. 15, 2010 — 100 years to the day after the building opened.

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is set to hear a controversial case involving a Bible display at the Harris County Courthouse today — and just in time, the stand that used to hold the Bible (and supposedly would again if previous decisions are overturned) has been removed.

Looks like it may be the end of the line for the Bible in the previously forgotten William Mosher memorial in front of the old Harris County Courthouse: A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that the Bible must be removed from the monument because a district judge made it a religious monument when he restored it 10 years ago. We talked about the Mosher monument in December; if you haven't seen it, it's a block...