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  • San Antonio-area cop accused of shooting cat with arrow

    Police in Boerne said Officer Lance Deleon was not on duty Tuesday when the cat named "Bobby" was wounded. Police Chief Jim Kohler said the cat was shot using a ...

  • Montgomery County man accused of shooting wife

    Montgomery County officials said they received a 911 call from a home on Thursday at 1:30 a.m. from a man who said he shot his wife in the head. According to deputies, when they arrived to the home in the 30600 block of Towering Oaks, Christopher Cormier came out of the house and surrendered. His wife, Lisa, was found inside the home with a gunshot wound to the head. She was airlifted to the ...

  • Fire officials Tomball man set mothers car on fire

    The Harris County Fire Marshal's Office said Ryan Patrick Hanrahan was upset that his mother would not agree to buy him a new truck, so he set her car on fire early Monday ...

  • UPDATE 1-U.S. natgas rig count unchanged for week at 354 -Baker Hughes

    * Gas-directed rig count steady, just above 18-year low * Horizontal rigs fall for second straight week * Oil rig count also drops for second week NEW YORK, May 24 (Reuters) - The number of rigs drilling for natural gas in the United States was unchanged this week, hovering just four rigs above the 18-year low posted two weeks ago, data from Houston-based Baker Hughes showed on Friday. The ...

  • Sketch released of man who sexually assaulted grandmother

    Officials said the suspect knocked on a 67-year-old woman's door. When she answered, he forced his way in, hit her with his hand and raped her. The grandmother was left bruised and battered, and police need help finding the person responsible for the ...


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Quadrophenia [Blu-Ray]

Loosely based on the 1973 double album of the same title by The Who, Quadrophenia is a gritty, dour slice of kitchen-sink alienation set against the early-60s conflict between rival teenage gangs in England. The protagonist is Jimmy (Phil Daniels), a rather unremarkable young ma ... ...

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  • Man hit by car critically injured

    Around 10 p.m. Thursday, deputies said a man tried to cross Highway 6 at an unprotected area near Willow River. According to reports, when he walked into the last lane, a car traveling south hit ...

  • Man found dead in NW Harris County street

    Sergeant Ben Bell of the Harris County Homicide Unit said, "Deputies followed the blood trail back up to the subdivision there which led them to a duplex. There was blood inside and outside the duplex. The deputies entered the house to see if there were any additional victims and located what is probably a pound and a half to two pounds inside the ...

  • High-speed police chase ends with violent crash

    Officers said the chase started on Durban near Clay Road around 12:45 a.m. Friday when police spotted a Dodge Caravan driving with no headlights. Police made a traffic stop, but investigators said when officers approached minivan, the driver took ...

  • HFD 2-Alarm apartment fire intentionally set

    Houston Fire Officials said the blaze was started after two men got into a fight. One of the men left, but officials said the other was so enraged, that he came back with a Molotov ...

  • Schaub Texans begin preparation for season

    Matt Schaub has gotten good at tuning out criticism from those outside the organization.Houston's quarterback doesn't have time for those opinions. Besides, even his harshest critics probably aren't as hard on him as he is on himself."I have higher expectations of myself than anyone could ever put on me," he said.So what does he expect from himself this season? Simple. ...

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