Results tagged “sageroad”

In the midst of all the news about juveniles being abused in prison, Halliburton's motives and who will say what in the (still distant) presidential election, it's nice to run across a heartwarming story about a cat that fell from the fifth floor of a building. Oh, that's not the heartwarming part — this is: The cat's alive and doing well. And she's cute! Cat, the name the kitty's going by for now, fell from...

You may have seen the chain restaurant Houlihan’s on a trip to the Midwest or Northeast. The restaurant/bar chain has remained very popular in that region, along with Florida and California. The chain has now announced a return to the Texas market, beginning in Austin, with plans to build a dozen restaurants around Houston and several in Dallas/Fort Worth. At first glance, Houlihan’s exterior looks like your typical TGI Friday’s or Bennigan’s. Do we really...

Test results showing a Houston plastic surgeon had a blood alcohol level nearly twice the legal limit the night he reportedly hit two visiting Englishwomen with his car will be admitted as evidence in his trial, KPRC reports. Lawyers for the doctor, Mark Gilliland, argued that the test results should not be admitted because they were collected hours after the accident that left Amanda Holland and Joanna Moore severely injured.

With all the news about the Enron trial these days, it's easy to overlook other places where the wheels of justice are turning — for example, the trial of Mark Douglas Gilliland, a Houston plastic surgeon accused of seriously injuring two women on a Galleria-area sidewalk in a hit-and-run last year. Testimony in Gilliland's trial began today with prosecutors saying the doctor was "rip-roaring drunk" the night the accident occurred. The story is that Gilliland...