Hot Houston Days

Ah, the halcyon days of summer...

Houston police have arrested and charged a man in the ax-slaying of his roommate.
Robert Fulton Burns, 42, is charged with murdering a man identified by relatives as Lewis Mack Holiday, 41, at his home in the 5800 block of Hirondel in southeast Houston on Sunday night. (Dale Lezon, The Houston Chronicle)

...When we sit in the sultry shade sipping tall cool drinks...

A man was killed by another man wielding a machete or a large knife Tuesday night just north of downtown.
The slaying happened about 9 p.m. in the 2800 block of Lorraine at Jensen. (Dale Lezon, The Houston Chronicle)

...Reading Dale Lezon's pithy accounts of life in our fair city.

Robert Fulton Burns, man about town