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......

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......

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......