Houston Chronicle

Mothers and daughters inspired the new clothing line that Tina Knowles has launched with her megastar child, Beyonce. The line's name, House of Dereon, is a reminder of Tina Knowles'...

Dirty is in--always has been, it seems. So when we took in a screening of Gus Van Sant's "Last Days," we, of course, thought about Blake, a thinly veiled representation...

Oprah has women bra-struck. The talk-show host recently revealed that she was among the majority of U.S. women who wear the wrong size bra. Her solution: the Tisha T-shirt bra...

1. Tampa Bay We'll never know if baseball could have made it in Tampa-St. Pete. From the beginning, the Devil Rays have had the worst owner and the most bumbling...

1. Boston They correlate moments in their lives with the latest Red Sox game. Does that tell you something? 2. St. Louis It's the place almost every baseball player wants...

On a Tuesday night last year, after dinner, Les Lawless took girlfriend Amanda Wilson to the San Marcos River to share a bottle of wine -- or so he said....

For years, Ed Russell's wife has watched him leave home at a moment's notice, leading a caravan of as many as 70 power trucks to an area somewhere in the...

It was one of the many burglary calls that Jeannette Payne has received in her nine years as a Houston police officer. The 5-foot-2, 120-pound Payne says she arrived at...

Two plants in north Texas and one in Illinois that slaughter horses and sell the meat overseas could be shut down under an amendment to an agriculture bill that has...

The Texas Legislature has approved an amendment that could reduce discounts offered by limited-service real estate brokers by requiring them to offer more services to their customers. The amendment, which...