She's back Houstonist! Taucha Hogue has advanced to the championship round for College Cheerleader of the Year and she needs your vote! Taucha squares of against Arkansas' Laura Cole and she currently trails 54% to 46% as of Monday night. Ok, Taucha, here we are in championship round. Are you starting to feel the pressure of being in the BIG game? There is pressure out there for the fact there are so many people......

Good morning, Houston. If you've ever thought that Halloween needed a little more, uh, spice, you might want to check out HauntXXX, "Houston's most titillating haunted house." The titillating part apparently has to do with nearly naked women wearing neon body paint — and as for the haunted part, well, we're not so sure (maybe these are some super-scary sexpots we're talking about). The haunted house isn't sitting well with some of its neighbors,......

Good morning, Houston. Did you hear the one about the high school teacher who might have appeared in a bunch of gay sex videos? Well, now you have. He's a faculty member at Clements High in Sugar Land, and Fort Bend ISD officials got a tip last week that he has appeared in dozens of sexually explicit videos under an assumed name. The district has removed the teacher from the classroom while it investigates......

Looks like Priscilla Slade's trial may be held in Houston after all: On Monday, state District Judge Brock Thomas denied her lawyers' request for a change of venue, though he could still change his mind after screening the jury pool. Slade's attorneys asked Thomas to move the trial to Travis County last month, claiming that heavy media coverage of the former Texas Southern University president's alleged spending spree with $2 million in public funds meant......

Here's a Houstonist Fashion Tip: If you're a fan of expensive high-fashion shoes but you don't have the money to actually buy them, it's probably better not to steal someone's credit card and go on a shopping spree. Try Harwin instead — sure, your knockoff Manolo Blahniks might fall apart in a few months, but at least you won't be hunted by the cops like a trio of people HPD says indulged their expensive tastes......

True Religion is ready to make fashion-conscious Houstonians (with well-lined pockets) truly happy. The clothing retailer will be opening a store in the Galleria this summer. The new store will carry True Religion's full line of merchandise for men and women, including T-shirts, pants, skirts, sweatshirts, and their trademark $200+ jeans. The original True Religion store was opened in 2002 in Los Angeles, CA, by husband-and-wife design team Jeffrey and Kym Lubell. They began a......

If you've ever thought of the people who spend their days at the Galleria as filthy, stinking rich, well, you might not be all that far off: The mall has recently had problems with raw sewage bubbling onto the sidewalk just outside Neiman Marcus. Uh, gross. The source of the sewage was apparently a mystery for a while, but city crews went out yesterday and discovered that it was not coming from a city line.......

Sad news from the old Town & Country Mall: A construction worker was killed yesterday when an overhead walkway collapsed between a parking garage and the former Neiman Marcus store. It happened just after 4:30 p.m.; according to KHOU, crews demolishing the overhead walkway cut a support beam, causing the structure to fall on the worker. The ex-Neiman's is one of a few parts of Town & Country left standing after much of the mall......

Turns out TSU President Priscilla Slade actually did follow university policy on one of her personal expenditures: a vehicle registration fee of $64.30. That's great and all, but it doesn't quite compare to Slade's expenses that weren't allowed under her contract: a whopping $647,949. The numbers come from a report prepared by TSU's internal auditor which shows Slade spent university funds on things like donations to her church, auto repairs, a personal maid and maintentance......

More on TSU President Priscilla Slade's spendy ways: It turns out she spent even more of the university's money than we had heard. Receipts and invoices obtained by the Chronicle show that in 2005, Slade spent more than twice the $50,000 allotted her for travel, entertainment and other expenses, including more than $20,000 on club memberships and nearly $9,500 in moving expenses. Among her expenditures last year: • $5,378 in annual dues for a membership......