Source: Houston Chronicle Former Texans star Mario Williams now plays for the Buffalo Bills, but he apparently left a piece of his heart – and a $785,000 engagement ring – in Houston. Attorneys for Williams filed suit last week in Harris County state district court against Erin Marzouki, who is described in the lawsuit as [...]
Source: AP / Houston Chronicle ATLANTA — Former NBA player and Atlanta native Javaris Crittenton was indicted Tuesday on charges of murder and gang activity. The Fulton County District Attorney’s office said Crittenton, 25, and his cousin, Douglas Gamble, were charged in a 12-count indictment in the death of an Atlanta woman and the attempted murder of another [...]
Source: Joe Holley / Houston Chronicle The NAACP vows to register 1 million new voters in time for the November elections to overturn what leaders called an “onslaught of state restrictions on voting.” Alluding to the long struggle of the nation’s oldest and largest civil rights organization, Board Chair Roslyn Brock insisted in the opening address of the association’s [...]
Source: AP / Houston Chronicle NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Two black men are taking “The Bachelor” and “The Bachelorette” to court with a lawsuit that claims the reality shows are blocking contestants of color from starring roles. Nathaniel Claybrooks and Christopher Johnson filed a federal lawsuit in Nashville Wednesday against the popular TV shows claiming they are engaged in [...]
Source: Ken Chitwood / Houston Chronicle Last weekend, thousands of atheists, agnostics and “nones” gathered in solidarity in Washington D.C. for the Reason Rally. Billed as a “coming out” event for the atheist community by the American Atheists, the rally was meant to galvanize the growing non-religious segment of the American population. For the African-American “none,” this “coming out” can [...]
Source: Zain Shauk / Houston Chronicle The Houston Police Department‘s backlog of untested rape kits totals between 6,000 and 7,000 – 50 percent more than what officials previously acknowledged, according to a memo from Chief Charles McClelland. HPD for years has insisted that the backlog of untested rape kits was around 4,000. The details from the chief’s memo [...]
Source: AP / Houston Chronicle BEAVER, Pa. — A defense attorney’s argument that a bag of marijuana uncovered during a Pennsylvania traffic stop could have belonged to a man other than his client has unraveled after an arresting officer recalled the suspect asking him: “Can I have my weed back?” Nineteen-year-old Devonte Davon Jeter was [...]
Source: AP / The Houston Chronicle TOPEKA, Kan. — Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback apologized Monday for his office’s response to a disparaging Twitter post by a high school senior who was attending a school function at the state Capitol. “My staff overreacted to this tweet, and for that I apologize,” Brownback said in a Monday [...]
Source: Dane Schiller / Houston Chronicle Federal authorities say they have cracked a ring that banked at least $10 million and used its own renegade pharmacies to purchase 97,000 pints of prescription-strength cough syrup and smuggle them from California to Houston to make a deadly potion wildly popular in the hip-hop world. The syrup used in “Purple [...]
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