Good morning, Houston. If you've been working on a list of things you can do with cow patties, we've got another item for you: You can make pens out of them. Just ask John Lopez of Poteet, who has gotten semi-famous in South Texas by making pens from ground-up cow patties. No, really — the ground poop is mixed with a plastic resin, milled into cylinders and fitted with pen parts; the finished product,......

Sean Brown and Matt McCombs, both 18, were indicted today, charged with the early July murder of 16-year-old Ashton Glover Juan Garza, 27, is in jail in Pasadena as a suspect in the stabbing death of his 61-year-old mother, who police said he killed and robbed to support a drug habit Witnesses said lightning caused a two-alarm fire at a north Houston apartment complex this afternoon Police are still searching for Kollett Cooper, a Fort......

Sean Brown, one of two 18-year-old Sugar Land men charged with the murder of 16-year-old Ashton Glover, is in the Fort Bend County Jail under a $1 million bond. Brown waived his extradition rights in a Michigan court Monday, arrived in Fort Bend County on Wednesday and was arraigned yesterday. Though the other suspect, Matt McCombs, has admitted shooting Glover, police say Brown isn't talking. "It is my understanding that he is speaking very little......

Police surrounded a house in the Heights this afternoon after a woman said her boyfriend shot her but it turns out she made a false report because she was mad at the guy A Fort Bend County judge has set Sean Brown's bail at $1 million; the teen is one of two accused of killing Ashton Glover Police are still looking for 13-year-old Marlena Carmen Esquivel, who was last seen early yesterday and is in......

The story of Ashton Glover, the Sugarland teen who was murdered in early July, received tons of media coverage, including right here in Houstonist. Her friends have still been frequent visitors to her myspace page, leaving her birthday wishes and notes telling her how much she is missed. And now there's going to be a memorial concert to raise money to help her family and to put up a permanent memorial outside of her......

Sean Brown, one of the teens charged with murdering 16-year-old Ashton Glover waived his extradition rights yesterday in a Michigan court and will be brought back to Texas. Brown and Matt McCombs, both 18 and both of Sugar Land, were caught trying to flee to Canada through Michigan on July 12. McCombs was brought back to Fort Bend County last month and confessed to killing Glover on July 7 out of "morbid curiosity." Brown, on......

Matthew R. McCombs, the teenager who said he shot 16-year-old Ashton Glover out of "morbid curiosity," appeared in a Fort Bend County court this morning and kept quiet while a judge set his bond at $1 million. According to KPRC, McCombs likely won't bond out of jail; KTRK reports he'll be held in the general jail population and won't be isolated. Though there wasn't much else to report from the courtroom, McCombs' attorney, Ira Chenkin,......

More in the murder of 16-year-old Ashton Glover: Matthew R. McCombs, one of the two teen suspects caught trying to escape to Canada last week, has confessed to shooting Glover in the head. And why'd he do it? "Morbid curiosity," he told police. That was basically as much information as Fort Bend County Sheriff Milton Wright gave out Monday, though KPRC reports authorities believe McCombs' confession is true because it jives with information they had......

Matthew McCombs reportedly told police he shot 16-year-old Ashton Glover in the head out of "morbid curiosity" Two men and a woman were killed early Sunday morning when a driver lost control of his car outside an Almeda Road nightclub Hey, it's been hot around here lately, huh? Forensic psychiatrist Park Dietz testified today that mental illness led Andrea Yates to drown her children, though she knew it was wrong to do so At the......

These days, we hear a lot of warnings about how we should be careful about what we put on our personals blogs and MySpace pages, because one day it might come back to haunt us when we're looking for a job or running for office or whatever it is that grown-ups do. But until today, we hadn't thought about the impression our online trail might give if we're ever accused of murder. We imagine Sean......

Ashton Glover, the 16-year-old Sugar Land girl whose body was found in a Fort Bend County field earlier this week, was shot in the head, police say Jordy Tollett, the city's tourism bureau head, is taking an extended leave to seek professional help for some condition; Tollett has been under fire since a KPRC video showed him taking two-hour lunches at local bars In southeast Houston, an HPD officer killed a man in front of......

Police have apprehended the suspected muderers of Sugar Land's Ashton Glover: they were caught at the Canadian border late yesterday. The two teenagers were questioned earlier in the week (but had since disappeared). They were apprehended around 7 pm yesterday, about the time that forensics experts concluded a thorough search of the homes of both suspects, coming away with physicla evidence including probably weapons. Family members say that the two, Matthew McCombs and Sean H.......

Former Mayor Bob Lanier is alert and stable this evening following his collapse at Ken Lay's memorial service Fort Bend police are looking for two 18-year-old boys in connection with the death of 16-year-old Ashton Glover; both of them were reportedly friends with the girl Three suspects stole a handful of motorcycles in a "smash-and-grab" robbery in north Harris County this morning, police say Police are investigating the second body found in Brays Bayou in......

The defense in the Andrea Yates trial rested this afternoon; the state will now begin rebuttal and the case could go to the jury sometime next week Fort Bend detectives say they've made progress in their investigation of the death of Ashton Glover, the 16-year-old Sugar Land girl whose body was found in a field yesterday In Houston, the police officers' union is gathering the last responses to a survey it issued about HPD Chief......

The body of Ashton Glover, a 16-year-old Sugar Land girl missing since Friday, was found today in a Fort Bend County field Texas inmates working in prisons aren't entitled to receive the federal minimum wage, a federal appeals court ruled today Oil fell 84 cents today, to $73.25 a barrel, on a sell-off in gasoline futures Police found a man shot to death in the trunk a burning car near downtown early this morning; they......