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,......

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......

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.......