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Good morning, Houston. If you've been working on a list of things you can do with cow patties, we've got another item for you: You can make pens out of them. Just ask John Lopez of Poteet, who has gotten semi-famous in South Texas by making pens from ground-up cow patties. No, — the ground poop is mixed with a plastic resin, milled into cylinders and fitted with pen parts; the finished product, which the AP describes as "looking almost like wood from a distance," sells for $45. Lopez said he got the idea for the poop pens when he was thinking about making handmade pens, but couldn't find exotic materials in Poteet. So he turned to one of the most abundant natural materials around, and he said he's proud of how the pens reflect his surroundings. "That's where I live, and I'm not a Yankee," he said. "I've been up north once. I've been to Oklahoma, and I didn't care for it."

These days, we hear a lot of warnings about how we should be careful about what we put on our personals blogs and MySpace pages, because one day it might come back to haunt us when we're looking for a job or running for office or whatever it is that grown-ups do. But until today, we hadn't thought about the impression our online trail might give if we're ever accused of murder. We imagine Sean...

Police have apprehended the suspected muderers of Sugar Land's Ashton Glover: they were caught at the Canadian border late yesterday. The two teenagers were questioned earlier in the week (but had since disappeared). They were apprehended around 7 pm yesterday, about the time that forensics experts concluded a thorough search of the homes of both suspects, coming away with physicla evidence including probably weapons. Family members say that the two, Matthew McCombs and Sean H. Brown, both knew Glover, who was not living at home after some family troubles. One of the young men called Glover's mother over the weekend, claiming to have seen Ashton the night she disappeared but to have dropped her off at a coffeeshop around 2:45 a.m.