IN EARLY JUNE, I cut fuchsia, slipper-pink, and dove-white peonies from my bushes and stuff two stems apiece in each of the five fingers of my tulipiere, a style of vase with multiple openings.

On Friday, CBS News Texas visited the Westwood Apartments and discovered an apartment riddled with over 20 bullet holes. Del Valle Ceballos De Sousa said she and her husband lived in the apartment ...