Results tagged “hatecrime”

As Spring teenager David Ritcheson's family heads to Mexico today to claim Ritcheson's body, a few details are emerging about when he jumped from a Carnival cruise ship in the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday morning. Witnesses said Rtcheson climbed up a tower near the bow of the Ecstasy about 6:15 a.m., and moments later, ship crew members showed up and began trying to negotiate with him. Friends joined in — "What the [expletive] are...

Good morning, Houston. Were you one of the folks who lined up Friday to pick up an iPhone? And have you gotten it activated yet? If so, you're lucky: A lot of people are having trouble getting their shiny new toys activated, and until they do, none of the so-called Jesus phone's features — not even its alarm clock — will work. Though most customers have been able to activate their phones in a...

To Samuel White, it must have seemed like the perfect setup: Deface your house with racial slurs, burn it down and claim you had been the victim of a hate crime — then collect the insurance money and live happily ever after. And sure, it might have worked if White had just been a little more sneaky. As it was, though, he made just about every mistake you can imagine in carrying out the crime,...

New Orleans police arrested Richard Foster, wanted in the murder of a Katrina evacuee in Houston, last night A new report finds more problems in HPD's crime lab, including 23 cases in which the lab reported "grossly misleading" information from its DNA profiling Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson announced today plans for the nation's largest offshore wind farm, which is proposed for 40,000 acres off the Padre Island seashore A woman sentenced to 15 years in...

Vince Young on being passed over by the Texans: 'If I get picked to play for a team that's going to be playing them, it's going to be pretty rough on them' Kirby Drive was closed between Westheimer and Fairview this afternoon after a construction crew broke a gas line Houston plastic surgeon Mark Gilliland began serving two years in jail today for the 2005 Galleria-area hit-and-run accident that severely injured two British television producers...

Even though local Islamic leaders are upset about an anti-Muslim sign found near a southeast Houston mosque — but it's not a hate crime, according to HPD. The sign, which called Muslims the enemy and included a drawing of the prophet Muhammad, was found leaning against a fence near the mosque in the 8800 block of Old Galveston Road. Problem is, the fence is considered public property, so police say it's not clear exactly who...