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A 2-foot-long sword was used to kill a 42-year-old man and injure an elderly woman during a fight in north Harris County early Thursday, the sheriff's department said. Jose Alberto Martinez, 18, was charged with murder and aggravated assault, said Sgt. James Parker, a sheriff's homicide investigator. Martinez was drinking beer with his neighbor Gabriel Flores at a trailer park in the 1700 block of Greens when a fight broke out between them about 1 a.m. Parker alleged that Martinez, who had taken the sword from his residence earlier in the evening to show his neighbor, stabbed Flores with it...

Trailer park resident kills neighbor with sword By S.K. BARDWELL Copyright 2004 Houston Chronicle A 42-year-old man was killed and a woman injured when a sword was brought to a fight at a trailer park in north Harris County overnight. Harris County Sheriff's Department deputies said two neighbors drinking outside their trailers in the 1700 block of Greens road got into a fight about 3:30 a.m., and one went to retrieve his sword. The 18-year-old suspect killed the victim, then went to the victim's trailer and attacked the victim's relatives. One woman was taken to a nearby hospital with non-life...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - The autobiography of "Star Trek" actor George Takei will be among the books on display starting this month in a preview exhibit for the Bill Clinton Presidential Library. "To the Stars," written by Takei in 1994, details the actor's life from his childhood days in Japanese-American internment camps in Arkansas and California during World War II to his rise to stardom portraying Hikaru Sulu in the original "Star Trek" TV series and in six "Star Trek" movies. Takei, who spent a year at an internment camp in Rohwer, sent a copy of his book to Clinton...

WASHINGTON — On the road to change, the quarters are halfway there. The U.S. Mint's 50-state quarter program, which began with Delaware and will end with Hawaii, reached the halfway mark last week with the debut of the Arkansas 25-cent piece. Quarters are produced in the order that the states ratified the U.S. Constitution and joined the Union. The states come up with the design, which features images or themes honoring the state.An employee of the U.S. Mint inPhiladelphia loads a cart with freshly minted Arkansasquarters, Monday, Nov. 3, 2003. On the road to change,the quarters are halfway there. The...

The story is this: My mom and I were visiting this Mexican friend of hers (legal resident, if you ask) who is pregnant, and this lady lives in a trailer park strategically located in Chesterfield, an upscale suburb of St. Louis. The leftists always rant and rave about how the "poor" are oppressed here in the "evil American empire", but the reality is very different: -Half of the trailers sported a satellite dish, the other half have digital cable with HBO and Cinemax. -None, and I say none, of the cars at the park, looked like it was more than...

It has taken two weeks, 402 fine-tip markers and a college student with a bad case of writer's cramp to sign the names of more than 5,000 donors onto the white beam. Armed with a new Sharpie and surrounded by workers building the multimillion-dollar presidential library that the beam is a part of, Bill Clinton made the marker count 403. More than 3,000 people cheered Friday as the former president signed his name to the beam that completes the skeleton of his presidential library in Little Rock. The Starship rock song "We Built This City" played from a speaker...

Speaking at U of Arkansas

MADONNA poses for the most amazing photograph of her career — with her leg bent behind her head. Yoga-mad Madge, 44, was snapped in the position during a stunning photoshoot after calling normal poses “boring”. She said: “I’m not interested in just going for a fashion shoot. If I don’t feel like I’m creating something that means something, I don’t want to do it.” Madonna — whose hit films included the documentary In Bed With Madonna — also talked about her marriage to Lock, Stock director Guy Ritchie in the interview with US magazine W. And she admitted once “just...

Excerpt - Life has been tough for Roger Clinton since his big brother left the White House. Bill Clinton's 45-year-old half brother, who last year pleaded guilty to reckless driving after being charged with drunken driving and disturbing the peace, and was investigated by Congress for collecting hundreds of thousands of dollars to procure presidential pardons and other favors, is now facing foreclosure on his house in Torrance, Calif. [snip]

<p>LOS ANGELES (AP) --  A little-known trailer park that dates to the 1920s may be enshrined as an important piece of the city's history.</p> <p>The City Council is considering naming the Monterey Trailer Park to the list of historic and cultural monuments, joining 715 other sites that range from an avocado grove to the Hollywood sign.</p>

(Columbia S.C.) May 31, 2002 - The stereotypical view of mobile homes is not very positive. People told WIS News 10 the homes are more associated with overgrown lawns and an unkept appearance. Other stereotypes suggest the homes are "not very strong as far as the weather. But, manufactured housing is a booming business in South Carolina. Charleston Highway is dotted with retailers; more than 400 are licensed around the state. Burch Antley of the Manufactured Housing Institute of South Carolina explains part of the appeal, "We have a lot of rural land, a lot of less expensive land that...