Beach patrol has already taken in guard towers for the winter season.
Officers are asking anyone with information about the early morning shooting to call.
A jury deliberated for less than an hour before delivering the verdict.
Investigators are asking for public help identify a man involved in three separate kidnapping attempts of four women on the island.
The man is described as a Hispanic 5 feet 3 inches to 5 feet 5 inches tall and between 25 and 40 years old with a thin, muscular build, police said.
At 2:23 a.m. Saturday, Galveston police received multiple calls in reference to shots being fired in the area of the 600 block of N. Holiday Drive, police said. Responding officers searched the area and located a 38-year-old male lying in the roadway in the 400 block of Avenue G with apparent fatal gunshot wounds, police said.
The city is asking for permission to withhold video from a Sept. 14 police pursuit that ended with the death of a Galveston man.
A 28-year-old man died Wednesday morning after being hit by an SUV, police said.
A jury found a Galveston man guilty of aggravated robbery.
Police had received a call about a man walking on the bridge before the crash.
A man and a women were found dead after family members of the female victim, who was in her late 30s, reported to the Dickinson Police Department they had not had contact with her for several days, and officers were sent to the house for a welfare check at 9:16 a.m. Tuesday.
Investigators found six shell casings but haven't yet made any arrests.
The man was at least the fifth person to drown while visiting Galveston County beaches this year.
Police stopped one person after the fight but didn't make an immediate arrest.
A 60-year-old man went missing about 11:30 a.m. Searchers are now looking for his body.
Police are asking anyone with information about the case to call 409-938-9235.
The officer is accused of failing to leave contact information after a minor crash at an apartment complex.
The man was transported to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
A 21-year-old man suffered a gunshot wound to the groin area, police said.
Anyone with any information should call the Galveston Police Department non-emergency phone line at 409-765-3702 or Galveston County Crime Stoppers at 409-763-8477.
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