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A body recovered from a submerged military trainer airplane found off the coast of Matagorda Island has been identified as Lt...Medical personnel from the Houston native's unit made the confirmation Wednesday, military officials said. An autopsy will...
Tags: John Joseph Houston, Navy, Coast Guard Cutter, Brett Dawson, Galveston, Corpus Christi Texas, Port Aransas Texas, United States Navy, Nueces County Texas, Corpus Christi metropolitan area, Naval Air Station Corpus Christi, Disaster Accident
Somewhere on the dark floor of the Texas City Ship Channel lies a piece of history that's 146 years in the making. Divers and archaeologists set course Wednesday to retrieve a Civil War-era relic, a 10,000-pound cannon from a Union gunboat blown up by...
Tags: inch dahlgren, USS Westfield, dahlgren guns, Texas City Channel, Galveston, Dahlgren, James Jobling, Texas City Ship Channel, William B. Renshaw, Battle of Galveston, Dahlgren gun, War Conflict, Galveston County Texas, Galveston Texas, Gulf of Mexico
Alida and Tom Duggan are fighting contractors, their insurance company and the bank in a struggle to rebuild their home in Bayou Vista, destroyed by Hurricane Ike. “Our life has been a nightmare in hell the last year,” Alida Duggan said. The trailer in...
Tags: FEMA, Galveston County, fema caseworkers, fema trailers, trailers resident, housing programs, High Island, temporary housing, ike victims, Yvonne VanZandt, Galveston, Hurricane Katrina, Trailer park, Caseworker, Disaster Accident, Federal Emergency Management Agency, FEMA trailer, Hurricane Ike
Bill Henry , who recently retired from Freeport LNG, has joined the energy consulting firm Brown, Williams, Moorhead & Quinn as a vice president in the Houston office. Tom Godbold, a partner with Fulbright & Jaworski, has been inducted as a Fellow of...
Tags: vice president, British School of Houston, Houston Endowment, Greater Houston Radiology Associates, Kiwanis Foundation of Houston, Energy Network of Houston, elected president, financial office, chief financial, houston office, Galveston, Stephen A. Roell, Management team, Bauer College of Business, Business Finance
The Coast Guard cutter Galveston today towed to shore a fishing boat whose engine quit working about eight miles off Kane'ohe, the Coast Guard reported. The 40-foot boat reported late Wednesday night that its engine would not work, despite having plenty...
Tags: Coast Guard, Galveston, Honolulu, Greater Houston, Spam, Galveston County Texas, Galveston Texas, Gulf of Mexico
Teresa, is studying an area in the Gulf of Mexico roughly the size of New Jersey. It gets better...The low oxygen is the result of nutrient pollution, believed to be caused by fertilizer use in the Midwest that seeps into the Mississippi River and flows...
Tags: Kevin Craig, Dr. Craig, dead zones, FSU, Kirby Kemper, Gulf of Mexico, low oxygen, marine lab, marine life, Galveston, Public universities, Water pollution, Dead zone, Florida State University, Hypoxia, Fisheries, Aquatic ecology, Chemical oceanography, Environment
For decades, Galveston's Flagship Hotel, rising seven stories above a pier jutting 1,000 feet into the sea, was the stuff of postcards. Never the city's most elegant hotel, arguably it was the most fun — a proud symbol of a flourishing tourist economy.
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We did our usual "stop as we travel", and witnessing along the way, from Palestine, Tx to Galveston. We met many nice people who were interested in the Bible. As our usual thing we left them our magazines and continued on our way. One man in particular,...
Tags: homeless, poor, Galveston, hurricane, Bible, faith, witnessing
He was last seen in action during the 2007 World Pool Championship. After that Chao Fong Pang’s whereabouts became a mystery except for the rumor that he bolted out of Taiwan and migrated to China to teach pool. Indeed, the former two-time world 9-ball...
Tags: Galveston
Galveston Mayor Lyda Ann Thomas today took the chairmowman of a U.S. senate subcommittee on a tour of areas in the city recovering from Hurricane Ike...Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., was Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas. The tour was in preparation for...
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