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Seems like everyone has a video on YouTube these days — even gang members in the Fifth Ward. KHOU found the video made by self-professed gang members, who talk about crime, life on the streets and grills (which cost $1,500 cash, apparently). As you might expect, city leaders aren't too happy about the video: "They can't be the voice of the Fifth Ward," City Councilman Jarvis Johnson, whose district includes the neighborhood, said. "I'm...

Jurors heard opening arguments yesterday in the murder trial of Ashley Benton, the girl accused of stabbing a 14-year-old gang member to death at Chew Park near Montrose last summer. Benton — who was 16 at the time — was involved with the Crazy Crew gang, members of which got into a fight with members of MS-13, the gang with which Granillo was affiliated. Benton's defense attorneys told jurors Monday that she stabbed Granillo in...

Let's face it: In a big city, there are places where you wouldn't be surprised if you were robbed — but we wouldn't expect a cemetery to be one of them. And yet KTRK reports that several mourners at the Houston National Cemetery have found themselves victims of thieves in the last few months.

The county has enlisted new help in catching chronic toll-road abusers: a group of cameras that catch people who owe thousands of dollars in unpaid tolls. The effort is aimed at catching the top 500 non-toll payers, who owe between $2,000 and $30,000 — though anyone with the mettle to rack up $30,000 in unpaid tolls really deserves some kind of award, we think, even if it is given in jail.

A former Spring Wal-Mart employee is behind bars, accused of leading a check-fraud scheme that apparently cost shoppers thousands of dollars — and it all goes back to store employees failing to give customers their checks back.

So here's one of those things we never really thought about, probably because we aren't too familiar with the world of sex offenders: Officials have been out for the last few days checking up on the addresses of registered sex offenders and making sure they don't have any Halloween decorations up. It's all part of an effort to make sure that the sex offenders have no interaction with trick-or-treaters — kids, candy, gotcha — and...

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.

More details today on the multiple-vehicle wreck that shut down the Katy Freeway near Highway 6 yesterday: According to KPRC, it was apparently caused when one of the Harris County Precinct 4 deputy constables escorting a wide load decided to shut down an outside lane of the eastbound freeway, which caused drivers in other lanes to stop, too. One of those cars was a Ford Expedition, which ended up being rear-ended by an 18-wheeler that couldn't stop in time; the crash turned into a chain reaction, the SUV burst into flames and chaos ensued.

Once in a while, a story comes along about an incidental fee that's gone horribly wrong — you know, like the one about the poor soul who finds a book his great grandmother forgot to return to the library and ends up being responsible for $1 million in overdue fines. The report about the guy who owes the Harris County Toll Road Authority $9,287 in delinquent tolls isn't quite that extreme, but it'll do.

Add another hot spot in the local crime wave: Harris County Precinct 4 in northeast Houston, where officials have had four reports of Christmas decoration vandalism in the last few weeks. And one family isn't taking it lying down: