Hola, Houston. It's rodeo time. Everyone get happy. Throw ya hands in the air if you love Hannah Montana! Musical acts like Montana, rather the lack of Tejano acts on the rodeo bill, are just what have folks around Houston up in arms. Former State Senator Gonzalo Barrientos is calling for "friends across the whole great state of Texas not to attend the Houston livestock show, period." According to the ABC13.com story, the issue is a lack of main stage Tejano acts on Go Tejano Day, which "celebrates Houston’s rich Hispanic heritage...features premier entertainment, plus a mariachi competition, and other activities..." Rodeo officials blame the lack of main stage performances on feedback from last years ticket holders citing that 3% of the poll group said it was due to the Tejano star booked for the event. Perhaps interest would increase if bigger name act was booked. Sounds like there should be a Tejano Idol show in the works.
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Good morning, Houston. So you say you're a Dynamo fan, eh? Well, here's your chance to prove it: The back-to-back MLS champs are auctioning off a chance to get close to the team's two MLS cups — literally. If you win the auction, the cups will be dropped off at your house on Christmas Eve and picked up Dec. 26; in between, you can do whatever you want with 'em (within reason, of course). Best of all, the money raised will benefit Casa de Esperanza, an organization that helps kids in crisis. Break out your checkbooks and bid — the auction ends at 5 p.m. today.
By now, you might have already seen the video floating around the Internet that seems to show a toddler who has been given ecstasy. If not, you can check it out here — just be prepared to see a lot of stupidity. In short, it's a video that first appeared on YouTube (it's since been removed); it shows the child sitting on the floor of a van, eyes rolling, as she's tapped, squeezed and slapped...
Good morning, Houston. We all know there are some perennially bad traffic spots around town — seriously, we all know — and now one of our local traffic nightmares has made Forbes' list of America's worst traffic traps. The spot is the Katy Freeway/West Loop interchange, which Forbes says costs drivers a whopping 25 million-plus hours of delays each year. That makes the 10/610 interchange the second worst in the country, by Forbes' reckoning,...
We guess Jacquelyn Woods has learned a lesson or two: She was arrested last week after trying to use a stolen credit card to buy some rims — and then making a really ill-fated attempt to run from the cops. According to KTRK, Woods showed up Monday at Cartronix, an auto accessory shop, wanting to buy some expensive rims. Red flags went up with the store staff when Woods wanted to pay using a credit card in someone else's name — so the employees told Woods that the rims wouldn't be ready until Wednesday.
KTRK breaks out its magical Crime Tracker again to let us know where in the Houston area we're most likely to have our cars broken into — and the answer makes us want to steer clear of Cloverleaf for a while (which shouldn't be too hard). The east Harris County community was at the epicenter of a cluster of auto burglaries, Channel 13 found. And though police have targeted burglars in the area, they haven't been able to settle certain burglary hotspots: "Between Precinct 3 and Harris County, they've been trying to knock down certain areas, but when you knock down one spot, you have to go back around to the other," resident Richard Voumard said. "It fluctuates. That's the biggest thing."
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.
A series of developments and twists over the weekend brought the case of murdered Texas A&M student Tynesha Stewart to a grisly point: Investigators said there would definitely be no search for her remains because there aren't any remains to be found. "There are no remaining body parts," Harris County Sheriff Tommy Thomas said in a news conference Saturday night. "We have determined through this investigation that the defendant dismembered the victim and burned her...
The latest development in the murder of Texas A&M student Tynesha Stewart: Yesterday, Harris County sheriff's officials announced that they will not search area landfills for her body, saying that finding the body would be "virtually impossible." Meanwhile, sheriff's investigators did finally get a confession from Stewart's ex boyfriend, Timothy Wayne Shepherd, who on Wednesday had led police to a Dumpster where he told activist Quanell X he disposed of Stewart's body after killing her....
The ex-boyfriend of missing Texas A&M student Tynesha Stewart was charged with murder this morning after he led police investigators to a dumpster where he said he put Stewart's body. The ex, 27-year-old Timothy Wayne Shepherd, hasn't made a formal confession and reportedly isn't cooperating with police now, but activist Quanell X said he did confess to him. Stewart disappeared a week ago while she was spending Spring Break at her mother's apartment. She left...
The Harris County sheriff's office is investigating what was apparently a murder-suicide in southwest Harris County yesterday afternoon: Seems a woman and her ex-boyfriend got into an argument in the ex's driveway, and he ended up shooting her and then turning the gun on himself. Neighbors dialed 911 when they heard the first gunshots, and deputies say the man shot himself in the head as they drove up: "As the units approached the house, they...
Considering how much some Texans love their guns, it's surprising that we don't hear about accidental self-shootings more often than we do. But really, you can go for months without a single incident, and then bam — or, we suppose, bang — you get a really good one. The incident in question happened yesterday afternoon at Gay Pontiac on the Gulf Freeway in Dickinson. The victim: an off-duty Harris County Sheriff's Office reserve major and...
A guy sneaking around a south Harris County bar last night made a fatal mistake when he pretended to pull a gun on a pistol-totin' Texan: The guy ended up being shot to death in what police believe was a case of self-defense.
A city dump truck driver crashed into a car, injured two people and killed another yesterday morning — apparently because he lost control of his truck, the Chronicle reports. The driver was trying to turn from Atascocita Road onto Will Clayton Parkway at around 11 a.m., but the truck kept going on Atascocita, hitting a Jeep Cherokee and the two workers who were building a handicap ramp at the intersection. According to KHOU, the Harris...
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...
The Amber Alert for missing 3 year old Danielle Jiminez, allegedly kidnapped by her father after he stabbed her mother to death on Tuesday, has been cancelled. The girl has not yet been found, but police are actively seeking both the little girl and her father, Leando Jiminez. The body of the girl's mother was found in a Channelview parking lot on Monday, and the case is being handled by Harris County detectives rather than HPD.
get new towels every day. But in real life, it apparently doesn't work all that well. Just ask the five guys who Harris County sheriff's deputies arrested yesterday in a suspected ID theft ring.
Last night, a SWAT team responding to a Channelview man's threat to blow up his mobile home ended up in a several-hour standoff with the guy — and it turns out he wasn't even in town. It all started when Harris County sheriff's deputies got a call from a woman who said her husband, Erik Wade Martinez, assaulted her; when she called Martinez to tell him she wanted to get some of her belongings out...
Police are still looking for clues in the abduction of a woman from a northwest Houston Kroger store late Sunday. The woman was leaving the store at Barker Cypress and FM 529 at about 11 p.m. Sunday when a man approached her and forced her into her car: "The suspect approached her, forced her in her vehicle, drove her from that location and took her to an ATM, made her withdraw some money and then...
Firefighters at a southeast Houston fire station had a surprise early this morning when a longhorn wandered in through one of the station's garage doors. There's not much to say about the story, really, other than that a longhorn wandered into a fire station (just in case you didn't get that part). KHOU has video of the bovine visitor, which seemed to spend most of its time standing around looking confused and peeping demurely from...
Two Prairie View A&M students caused the car crash early Monday morning that killed them and the driver of the other car, Harris County deptuties said yesterday. The wrong-way collision on Highway 290 near Mason Road killed Lamond Foster and Antwan McKinney, from Prairie View.
Officals believe the tanker truck accident that closed a section of Beltway 8 this morning may have been caused by the driver falling asleep. The truck, which can carry 8,000 gallons of gas, overturned and spilled gas on eastbound Beltway 8 near Wilson Road at about 3:45 a.m. "We believe that (the driver) fell asleep. It was fatigue," Harris County Sheriff's Office Sgt. Nathan Douglas told KPRC. "He had been driving since 6 p.m. last night and had been making deliveries all night."
This week in stupid, 11 teenagers have been arrested for a two-month crime spree that they videotaped for posterity. The teens drove through their neighborhoods in North Shore and Woodforest knocking down mailboxes, shattering car windows and damaging random things — and capturing all 24 incidents on tape. "It seemed like there was very little remorse in any of their actions -- that they were having such a good time. It didn't seem like anybody...
More details this morning on the car chase that ended yesterday in a head-on crash: It sounds like Jatinderjit Kaur Mann, the guy being chased, was a little crazy.