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Breaking News: Hulk Hogan has died at age 71 Story developing tmz.com/2025/07/24/hul…

Trump's billionaire ambassador to Italy refuses to live in the sumptuous official US residence in Rome and instead stays on his 250-foot super yacht moored 60 miles from the capital and helicopters to work, per Italian media reports. @mattiaferraresi airmail.news/issues/2025-7-…

The #Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed the death penalty sentence of serial killer William Lewis Reece today. Reece's attorneys had objected to some wild statements made by a Texas Ranger while interrogating him for his role in four murders. nondoc.com/2025/07/10/okl…

Really sorry to see that Tom Schwenk passed away. I got my first (and only) apartment in Galveston with his company's help. He was always a helpful and thoughtful source for real estate and development stories. A loss for the island. galvnews.com/news/renowned-…

Mastermind of fake Texas paper plate scheme gets 5 years, ordered to pay $22 million houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-t… via @houstonchron

Kevin Hines, a contractor maintaining postal machines, was killed during his first shift at a Missouri City USPS facility. His widow hopes prosecutors pursue the death penalty against the man... houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-t…

If you're going to set fire to your home and career, then try to blame someone else, at least get rid of the damn gas can. This story from @JohnWFerguson is wild. houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-t…

Breaking: I'm (almost) employed again. Next month, I'll be joining the Louisville Courier-Journal to cover the Louisville Metro Police Department and other criminal justice-related issues. It’s a critical time in Louisville. City leaders have pledged reforms despite the DOJ’s…

Ex-La Marque city manager accused of arson, fake Marine record and bogus degrees, court docs say houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-t… via @houstonchron #galvnews

FOIA Files is back! When DOJ seized Wu-Tang Clan's Once Upon a Time in Shaolin from Martin Shkreli & later sold the album the agency concealed the sale price citing “trade secrets.” Now, after a four year FOIA battle, I got DOJ to reveal the price bloomberg.com/news/newslette…

Eugene Walker, the first defendant to plead guilty in the federal case against AABLE Bail Bonds, admitted to participating in a scheme to falsify financial records to help a capital murder suspect. houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-t…

Good get from @HoustonChron's @benwermund: Joe Gebbia is behind a recent $1M contribution to Gov. Greg Abbott's campaign. Abbott's folks pledged to fix his report after the Chron pointed out it did not have the necessary info regarding the contribution. Gebbia, who co-founded…