Results tagged “newcaney”

According to Chicago Tribune writer Phil Rogers, the Houston team is looking "to plan a sneak attack on the Cubs" by trying to sign New Caney, TX native Adam Dunn to a one-year deal.

Good morning, Houston. How many of you knew what Monday was? Anyone? Anyone? That's right: It was the 220th anniversary of the signing of the United States Constitution. To mark the anniversary, the nation had a little holiday, Constitution Day — but how many people actually knew about it? Not many, apparently: Though federal law says students at public high schools should be taught about Constitution Day, a recent survey of students found that...

Good morning, Houston. If you're looking forward to Earthquest, the $600 million-plus, 250-acre theme park being planned for east Montgomery County, you should be happy to know that the park plan has gotten a boost: Earlier this month, Gov. Rick Perry signed legislation to enable tax incentives for the project. The park, to be built on Caney Creek near Highway 59 and FM 1485 in New Caney, is the brainchild of paleontologist Don Lessem,...

Good morning, Houston. Remember when our fair city was trying to land the summer Olympics? Well, maybe we should be happy we didn't get them, given London's problems with its 2012 Olympics logo. The logo — a brightly colored, highly abstracted version of the numerals "2012" that cost $796,000 to design — drew fire at first for its look, and now there's word that the animated version of the logo is apparently causing epileptic...

The Astros 2007 free-fall continued at Minute Maid Park on Tuesday as they dropped their 10th consecutive loss by losing to the Reds 4-3. The Reds attacked Wandy Rodriguez (2-5) for three first inning earned runs that would put the Astros anemic offense against the wall. Reds center fielder Norris Hopper got the game started on a lead off double and then scored on Alex Gonzalez's single for the 1-0 lead. Ken Griffey Jr....

Houstonist hasn't heard much from former TSU President Priscilla Slade in a couple of months, and we were beginning to worry that it might be a long time before we got to enjoy another story of public officials going on taxpayer-funded spending sprees. But it turns out we don't have to wait that long after all: According to KHOU, folks associated with the New Caney Fire District had a good, old-fashioned spend-a-thon — on the public's dime.

Eric Cooper's trial for tampering with a government document, which begins this week, could end up just being about a man accused of signing his name to his ex-wife's car title without permission. But it could also open the door to a lot of grief for Cooper, the guy a variety of ex-wives and girlfriends say is a smooth-talking con man who built relationships on lies. Either way, we bet it'll be pretty interesting. If...

This week in stupid (OK, actually last week in stupid) we have the story of the Conroe woman who needed money to pay a traffic ticket, so she allegedly sold some crystal meth to a nearby man Thursday — while both of them were standing in line at a Montgomery County courthouse. Police say Deana Ayres, 25, sold ice methamphetamine to Charles "Bubba" Groze Jr., 40, of New Caney while she was waiting to talk...

So all day yesterday, we were wondering what would happen with that whole 6/6/06 thing. And you know what? Nothing happened. But thanks to KPRC, we have a fitting story for the Day of the Beast: In Porter, a guy came back from the dead. Although he wasn't really dead. And it didn't happen on the 6th. But hey, close enough, right?

The cash-strapped Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is considering a plan to transfer control of the 4,919.5-acre Lake Houston State Park to the city of Houston.