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Entries from Houstonist tagged with 'firstcolonymall'

January 24, 2008

• A Fort Bend County student has been accused of bringing a 9mm gun to school. The student was immediately expelled. • Two teens have been arrested after carjacking a family from their Cadillac Escalade at First Colony Mall. • Authorities are looking for a man claiming to be a police officer who attacked a 15 year old girl at a park in the 6400 block of Rustling Elms Drive back on November 18th.......

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August 8, 2007

Finally, Google Street View has come to Houston. Now we can see all those far-flung parts of town we've always wanted to check out — without having to leave Houstonist World Headquarters! Kind of, anyway: Most of the street view streets are on the southwest side, and almost all of 'em are inside the Beltway. No virtual tours of Alief for us, we guess. If you haven't used Google Street View, here's an introductory......

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June 8, 2007

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......

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May 1, 2007

Police have arrested seven Houston teens in connection with the aggravated robbery of a Sugar Land doctor earlier this month — all of them students at Elsik High School and most of them claiming to be involved with the Rolling 60s gang, a subset of the Crips. The victim, who lived alone, was attacked April 19 when one of the suspects reportedly knocked on his door asking to be allowed to call his mother because......

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