When Shannon Herrin’s teenage son found his mom dead in her garage in August, Mineral Wells police were perplexed. There was no evidence of murder — no trauma, no signs of a struggle, no one with any apparent reason to want her dead — and yet there was the indisputable…
Their teachers could tell something was off. The girls, six of them, all eighth graders at Texas City’s Blocker Middle School, were acting “zombie-like” and “delirious” at school on Monday, according to Houston’s ABC affiliate. School officials called an ambulance, but not before finding small pieces of paper wrapped in…
The pendulum of public opinion on marijuana policy has been swinging rather dramatically in recent years away from prohibition and toward a more libertarian approach. Hence last year’s decision by voters in Colorado and Washington to legalize the stuff and the corresponding announcement by the Justice Department that, so long…
For the past two-plus years, the Silk Road has been the go-to place for tech-savvy drug users — and entrepreneurial drug sellers — looking for a safe and anonymous way to get their fix. Weed, cocaine, LSD, heroin, you name it — it could be at your door in a…
Taylor Hooton had just turned 17 when, in the summer of 2003, he hanged himself. It was a shock to everyone: his family, his friends, his teammates on the Plano West baseball team, where he expected to be a starting pitcher the next season. There was at least circumstantial evidence…
USP Labs’ Dallas headquarters doesn’t actually look much like a laboratory. It’s more of a nondescript warehouse in a sea of nondescript warehouses off Stemmons Freeway and Northwest Highway. That’s where the company keeps its stock of its bodybuilding supplements for shipping to retailers like GNC or directly through its…
Walter Lippman-Avilez was hoping for a quick traipse through customs when he stepped off his Aeromexico flight from Mexico City just after 1 p.m. on Saturday afternoon. The Guatemalan’s previous trip to the U.S. had gone smoothly enough, after all, and he saw no reason why this one shouldn’t be…
Marijuana advocates were abuzz last month — and by “abuzz” we mean excited, of course — when a bill to reduce penalties for marijuana possession was passed out the Texas House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee. The bill had been watered down to apply only to people younger than 21, but the…
The community of maternal marijuana legalization activists was rocked this past weekend when a cannabis quilt, the product of two years and more than 70 pairs of hands, was stolen from atop a Ford Explorer parked at the CVS on Thornton Lane in Irving. The quilt, self consciously modeled on…
