From local Houston headlines, we bring you these weekend news bits... • A man crashed his car into a Sugar Land home on Lynnwood at Oak Wood early Saturday morning. No one in the home was injured and the driver is in the hospital in stable condition. • The Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo is 76 years old. • An 84 year old Puerto Rican man with dementia is missing after walking out of......

Happy Father's Day! For those of you who have dads, are dads, or know dads, this one's for you, from all of us at the Gothamist network. It was a week of bizarre, embarassing headlines at DCist. The trial of the local administrative law judge who sued his cleaners for $54 million over a pair of missing pants left everyone shaking their heads. Then the capital city was nearly brought to its knees, twice, by......

Houstonist loves the fall in Southeast Texas. There’s a slight nip in the normally muggy air, the leaves are changing and college football is heating up like the livingroom fireplace. Let’s not forget the weeks of delicious roasted turkey and pumpkin pie. We could do without Aunt Millie’s bearded kisses and Grandpa’s pipe, but somehow it all goes together. To make the games more cheerful, the pie more tasty and the kisses more tolerable, we......

Last week, we told you about the home in Conroe with the image of Jesus in its foyer (or Jerry Garcia, depending on how you look at it). But now we have something even better than that: Jesus himself — or at least a guy claiming to be him — has moved into the Houston suburbs. Take that, Dallas! Jesus, in this case, is Jose Luis de Jesus Miranda, a former heroin addict who says......

All the publicity surrounding the Lay/Skilling trial has reminded Houstonist how much we like a good courtroom drama — the on-screen kind, that is. We started thinking about our favorite trial-related movies and were disappointed to realize that all the really good ones were made a long time ago. We suppose Hollywood doesn't think today's audiences have the attention span to watch that kind of thing, so instead of smart, gripping trial stories, we......