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Former Houston Oilers linebacker John Grimsley was found dead in his Missouri City home this morning. After receiving a 911 emergency call from the Grimsley household, police rushed to the scene at 9:00am only to find a lifeless body. more ›

Good morning, Houston. Where do you go when you want to get away? The Chronicle asked some of its readers that and published their answers Friday — and it's not such a bad list, with day trips, museums and natural attractions. (Also on the list: the mausoleum at Forest Park Westheimer cemetery, which definitely takes a certain kind of person to enjoy.) The suggestion we're most interested in checking out is ex-state Rep. Debra... more ›

A tragic story continued unfolding this week in the case of Dennis Ray Driver Jr., the 8-month-old Houston boy who died late last year while asleep on his father's chest: The father, Dennis Driver, has been charged with murder in connection with the infant's death — and police say the boy died from taking cocaine. It happened Dec. 28, when Driver says he fell asleep with Dennis Jr. asleep on his chest; when Driver woke... more ›

: The severed hands and feet belonged to a bear, not a person. more ›

A little news in the story of the Baytown woman who was killed late Saturday while her car was being towed from the RV park where she lived: First of all, according to the Chronicle, her name was Cathy Deemer Soileau, not Cathy Regina Deemer as was originally reported. The Harris County Medical Examiner's office figured out her true name using DPS fingerprint records; according to medical examiner's office spokeswoman Jennifer Coston, Deemer was listed... more ›

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... more ›

More details on the story of Claudia Cortes, the 23-year-old mother in whose closet a newborn baby's body was found Sunday: The Harris County Medical Examiner's Office has ruled that the baby girl was strangled to death. Cortes, who was charged with tampering with evidence after she showed up at Ben Taub and insisted she hadn't given birth, though doctors found that she had, could face additional charges pending the outcome of an interview by... more ›

When 23-year-old Claudia Cortes arrived by ambulance at Ben Taub on Sunday morning, nurses at the hospital noticed that she looked like she had just given birth — but Cortes insisted she hadn't. So police went to her apartment in the 5100 block of South Willow to check things out and were shocked by what they found: what seemed to be a full-term newborn baby was hidden in a closet in the apartment. Now Cortes has been charged with tampering with evidence and police are trying to figure out exactly what's going on. more ›

Though the identity of the body found in the garage of a Midtown home last weekend hasn't officially been released, The Facts is reporting that it may be that of 28-year-old Jerry Glaspie, a former Danbury resident. Laura Glaspie, Jerry Glaspie's sister-in-law, told the paper that the family got confirmation from police late last week. "It's traumatic. No doubt in our mind he was murdered," Laura Glaspie said. "They're waiting on the toxicology and autopsy reports. They don’t have an actual cause of death yet." more ›

So what if you and your neighbors suspected there was a dead body hidden inside one of the houses on your block, but no one took you seriously? That's apparently what happened in Midtown for weeks before police finally investigated this weekend and discovered a body in the trunk of a car parked inside the garage of a townhome. Ugh. more ›

More on the death of Pamela Rushing, who was found mauled by dogs at her Friendswood home over the weekend: According to the Galveston County medical examiner's office, Rushing really was killed by her dogs — or at least one of them. A landscaper who arrived at Rushing's house Saturday to mow her lawn found her lying in a pool of blood in her backyard; her three dogs were covered in blood. It wasn't immediately... more ›

So here we are in the first full day of a World Without Anna Nicole — and though she's gone, the news isn't likely to stop anytime soon. Today, the medical examiner's office in Broward County, Fla., will conduct an autopsy on Smith to see if it can determine how she died, and closer to home, experts say her legal battles will probably stay in the courts for quite some time. First, what we know... more ›

The AP reported yesterday on a disturbing piece of news connected with the 2005 death of Phanta "Jack" Phoummarath, a UT-Austin fraternity pledge who suffered alcohol poisoning at a pledge party: As he was dying, members of the fraternity he was pledging reportedly wrote anti-gay slogans and drew obscene pictures on his body. Dr. Roberto Bayardo of the [Travis County] medical examiner’s office reported that party-goers had used green and black markers to write “FAG,”... more ›

Potentially interesting news about an old bone found in a truck full of soil and gravel near Santa Fe: It could be a really old bone — like hundreds of thousands of years. The bone in question is a tibia (that's a leg bone, in case you've forgotten) found in a dump truck last week, and though the jury is still out on its age, it looks like it could belong to someone who lived... more ›

">testified yesterday that Yates said she planned the deaths and knew they were wrong. more ›

The prosecution in the Andrea Yates retrial rested its case yesterday after its final witness, medical examiner Dr. Luis Sanchez, testified further about the condition of the bodies of Yates' children after she drowned them in her Clear Lake home in June 2001. Sanchez said it took at least three minutes of being held underwater in a bathtub for each child to lose consciousness, and up to 10 minutes for each to die. more ›

The U.S. Supreme Court overturned part of Texas' redistricting map today, saying some of the new divisions didn't protect minority voting rights Sheriff's officers are searching for Hector Caranza, a 5-year-old boy discovered to be missing from his northeast Harris County home this morning Orlando Sanchez, the newly named Republican candidate for Harris County treasurer, is suggesting that talk about eliminating the office of county treasurer is discriminatory against him Webster Smith, a Coast Guard... more ›

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. more ›