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If only everyone were as frank as David McLemore, the La Marque man who was pulled over for driving erratically on the Gulf Freeway on Wednesday morning — well, honestly, we're not sure where we'd be. See, McLemore was weaving through traffic while rolling a joint, and when the police pulled him over, he told them so. It happened just before 7 a.m. Wednesday when Gilberto Villareal, a Galveston County sheriff's deputy, noticed McLemore's car...

So, did you hear about Andre Agassi being in town over the weekend and raising about $300,000 for Simms Elementary school in La Marque? It was part of an Oprah Winfrey-sponsored reality show, The Big Give, in which participants compete to find the most creative ways to taken given amounts of money and multiply them so they can be given away to help others — in Houston, Agassi was competing against Tony Hawk, who held...

We talked last week about how the city had revoked the certificate of occupancy for Carter's Grove, the north Houston apartment complex with a history of safety and code violations — and sure enough, city officials shut the place down yesterday after helping the last residents move out. The complex drew attention when two kids were nearly electrocuted while playing around an unlocked electrical transformer box in February, but the city said it had racked...

Good morning, Houston. So how about this Internet thing, eh? Thanks to it, we now have more information at our fingertips than ever before — but how do we know we're staying on the moral and religious high ground? By looking at sites that take on the godless liberal element of the info superhighway, that's how: Take, for example, Conservapedia and GodTube (we hope we don't need to tell you what sites they're going head-to-head with). Now, in addition to learning about Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen's makeup, President Taft's tone deafness and how to build a fallout shelter, we can also find out how to start a clown ministry and how Wikipedia is trying to make us all Democrats by using British spellings of some words (see No. 12 on the linked list). Knowledge, need we remind you, is power. [Thanks to By the Bayou for turning us on to GodTube.]

KHOU reported yesterday on something bizarre in La Marque: a mysterious metal thing that's been leaking oil for a couple of weeks. It's in Bridget Gonzales' back yard, and the oil that's been coming out of a hole in the side has run through her yard and into a neighbor's property — but no one knows what the object is or where it came from. "It's clearly old, it's not something we've done and it's not something that we were aware of when we bought the property," Gonzales told Channel 11.

Well, those storms we mentioned yesterday morning ended up blowing through the area — and though Houstonist didn't notice much aside from gray skies and the occasional burst of rain, the weather did impact a lot of people. In Waller, winds that gusted up to 60 mph knocked some trees over and sheared others off halfway up their trunks; nearby, a barn under construction was destroyed. And in La Marque, a rogue lightning strike...

The Houston area is well-known for forgetting about its past, so it's especially interesting to hear about something like "the Settlement," a community founded by black cowboys who settled in Galveson County in the 1870s. Though most traces of the community are gone, locals hope to revive interest by converting the one remaining historic house into a museum. Four ex-cowboys — Calvin Bell, David Hobgood, Thomas Britton and Thomas Caldwell — earned money herding...

Police have arrested a La Marque couple in connection with a series of robberies at fast-food restaurants in Houston and the southeastern suburbs. John T. Mock and Maxine Sallie, who KPRC call "a modern day Bonnie and Clyde," targeted Subway and Church's restaurants in Houston, Pasadena, Deer Park, Baytown, League City and Alvin. According to KTRK, Mock and Sallie weren't the sharpest plastic knives in the package: They robbed a Subway shop in Alvin, but...

Houstonist's review of local news this morning turned up the usual stuff: online predators, crime, schools, crime, crime, government, weather, crime. Then we ran across the most startling story of the day: A La Marque man has grown a four-headed cabbage.

• Most of us weren't surprised that the No. 2 Texas Longhorns beat the Colorado Buffaloes in the Big 12 Championship game at Reliant Stadium on Saturday. What was a surprise was the score: 70-3. The decisive victory gives the 'Horns their first Big 12 title since 1996 and gives them a chance to earn their first undisputed national championship since 1969. But at this point, the 'Horns might want to think less about flashing...

NBA: The Rockets fell to the Bulls 94-89, the team's seventh loss in a row College football: UH beat Rice 35-18 to take the Bayou Bucket, which may send the Cougars to a bowl; Grambling State trumped Southern 50-35 in the temporarily relocated Bayou Classic College basketball: Rice fell to Oregon 84-60; UH dropped a nail-biter to Virginia Commonwealth 62-61 HS football regional semifinals: La Marque came from behind to defeat defending Division II state...