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Well, here's something you don't hear about very often — and thank goodness you don't: In Conroe, a woman has died after her boyfriend set her on fire during an argument. It happened just after 11 p.m. Saturday when John Marshall Dodd, 41, got into a fight with his girlfriend, 44-year-old Terry Leigh Lee (or Terry Lee Bailey, according to KPRC and KHOU), at Lee's house. "Apparently they had been out for the evening, gotten...

We were kind of interested last week when we noticed the story of Frederic "Ric" Brame, the 72-year-old dance instructor who is facing a charge of sexual assault of a child. Brame, who taught dance in Montgomery County, allegedly began assaulting a former student when she was 12 or 13 years old — but that wasn't all: Investigators say that, for years, Brame has pretended to be noted movie and Broadway dancer Tommy Rall. And...

There are few details about it so far, but a Porter couple was arrested yesterday for helping a convicted robber escape from a Fort Worth lockup. The escapee in question is Eladio Diaz Jr., who was last seen Sunday night at the North Texas Intermediate Sanction Facility, a minimum-security compound for parole violators; Jose Chavez and his wife, Jacqueline Diaz Chavez — Eladio Diaz's sister — were arrested for allegedly helping Diaz break out. Diaz...

Weird news out of Willis: Yesterday afternoon, a homeless man reportedly shot a trucker who was on his way to a fast-food restaurant. The shooting took place at Interstate 45 and FM 1097 at around 1 p.m. when truck driver Willie Ray Goree of Irving was walking to Jack in the Box and talking on his cell phone. For no apparent reason, Feofaaki A. Hafoka, who was living under a nearby overpass, fired at least...

Adam Williams, the inmate who escaped from a Conroe hospital early yesterday morning, never really had a chance: His face was all over local TV news, dozens of cops and police dogs were looking for him and a helicopter was tracking his moves with heat-seeking radar. Little wonder, then, that Williams was captured late Wednesday night — in a tree.