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Plastic bags half-filled with water and containing a few pennies might seem like odd outdoor decor if you’ve never encountered them before. Yet you can see these contraptions all over the American South, from barbecue restaurants to your neighbor’s back porch. But what are they for? Read on to find out. A useful purpose Believe it or not, these bags are an insect repellent. If you live in the South, you’ll know that Summer means bugs. Mosquitos, ants, June bugs, and most annoyingly, flies! Flies reproduce in the warmer months, so Summer is prime fly time. If these nasty critters get inside...

HOUSTON, Texas -- The San Antonio Police Department challenged the Houston Police Department publicly on Twitter to a friendly bet on the Rockets and Spurs game. @houstonpolice @ArtAcevedo Are you up for the challenge HPD? We win, Chief A sports silver and black, you win Billy Mac wears Rocket red. — SA Police Dept (@SATXPolice) May 2, 2017 Houston police not only accepted the challenge, but fired back with a confident prediction of victory. (Cont'd Below) It's on @SATXPolice! @HoustonRockets red is gonna look great on Chief Mac! https://t.co/Mx98Ui9oCR — Houston Police (@houstonpolice) May 2, 2017 Even the Fort Bend...

For years the fate of a seemingly-abandoned car lot off the Southwest Freeway near Hillcroft has been a topic of conversation among commuting Houstonians. The seven-acre dealership site at 6737 Southwest Freeway, previously owned by late-Houston Oilers/Tennessee Titans owner Bud Adams, is now up for lease by Colliers International. The site has continuously been tended to by Adams' KSA Industries. A handful of classic cars were parked in the showroom of the former Southwest Lincoln-Mercury dealership for what seemed like years until they disappeared a few months ago, only to reappear again according to Swamplot. Sometimes the vintage cars changed, and...

One Houston neighborhood is ”boiling” mad after someone dumped a bunch of leftover crawfish into a creek. It happened Sunday in the Oak Forest area along Rosslyn Road near Bethlehem Street. “It’s just garbage,” said neighbor Scott Szabo. Crawfish and other food dumped into the creek has resulted in a soupy mess. “It’s rotting food waste,” said Szabo. Szabo shared with us his concerns from atop what neighbors call “turtle bridge.” “These critters don’t eat corn on the cob, they don’t eat onions, they don’t eat lemons, they don’t eat dead carcasses of other animals like this,” said Szabo. We’re...

If given the chance to move anywhere in the world, a striking number of Houstonians — 67.1 percent — said they would stay in Space City. It’s an impressive figure, given that more often than not, people who move to Houston do so reluctantly, said Stephen Klineberg, founding director of the Kinder Institute for Urban Research and author of the Kinder Houston Area Survey. But soon after people get here, he said, they find reasons to stay. “They often say at the beginning, ‘Yuck, the job is there. We’ll go for a couple of years,’” Klineberg said, describing a common...