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             LOS ANGELES – Jaafar Jackson’s purchase of a stun gun caused controversy within the Jackson family home earlier this month. Now, for the first time since this incident made headlines, Jaafar and dad Jermaine Jackson have opened up about the incident and they explained to Access Hollywood’s Shaun Robinson […]

      Tracy Morgan has signed on to star alongside Channing Tatum in the Nu Image/ Millenium Films and Hannibal PIctures police-themed drama “Son of No One.” Tatum plays a young cop who is assigned to a precinct in the working-class neighborhood where he grew up.  An old secret surfaces and threatens to destroy […]

As far as dress rehearsals go, this weekend’s NCAA South Regional at Reliant Stadium is providing an intriguing glimpse of what’s to come. With 45,505 college basketball fans crammed into the Texans’ home venue Friday night to watch Baylor oust Saint Mary’s and Duke dispatch Purdue, attendance here was the second-highest ever for a preliminary-round […]

Critically acclaimed poet, Maya Angelou, has decided to use her words as a key to lend a hand in effort to stop violence on the streets of Chicago. Angelou, who uses a wheelchair, was on stage at St. Sabina Catholic Church on the South Side, and decided to use the opportunity to speak out against […]

Mya is pictured here with all FIVE of her pets for a recent pet adoption initiative: Singer / dancer Mya modeled with her pets to promote the North Shore Animal League America’s Tour For Life mobile pet adoption program. “My professional life can be hectic and demanding and having the love and companionship of my […]

Joel Osteen’s popular Lakewood Church is planning to partner with Houston ISD to open a charter school for autistic children. The school, expected to serve students in pre-kindergarten through fifth grade, is slated to open for the 2011-2012 academic year, according to Nancy Manley, an HISD executive principal. The Houston school board must approve the […]

VIA ABCLOCALGO.com: Pressure from police was reportedly a factor in Jonathan Hunter turning himself in last night. Houston police say Hunter went to police headquarters with a local minister. Authorities say he’s being questioned today, but no charges are being filed. However, capital murder charges have been filed against Alton Barnes, who turned himself in […]

Police made an arrest in the shooting death of a 3-year-old girl. Alton Charles Barnes, 24, was taken into custody Tuesday evening and charged with killing Charissa Powell following an attempted carjacking. The arrest came just hours after releasing a composite sketch of the suspect. Barnes’ younger brother also turned himself in with the help […]

Via HOUSTON (KTRK): The METRO board of directors meets today and big changes are in store. The agency has been embattled in a document shredding scandal for weeks and today Houston Mayor Annise Parker is expected to announce her 5 new appointments to the board. As we’ve been telling you now for quite some time, […]

VIA HOUSTON (KTRK): Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott wants the public’s help to locate a parent who appears on the Child Support Division’s new Top Ten List of Texas’ Most Wanted Child Support Evaders. Tomas Roman, whose last known address is in Houston, owes $160,928 for the support of his two children from Katy. “This […]

For 19 months, federal agents hunted gun-runners sneaking weapons from Texas to Central America by watching a Houston salvage yard owner, sometimes as he went to work or picked up his children at school. They tracked his cellular phone calls and videotaped the comings and goings of his business with a secret camera mounted on […]