Galveston County Sheriff’s deputies Monday arrested a 16-year-old Texas City High School student in connection with threats written on a bathroom wall, district officials said.
A woman was killed and a man badly injured early Monday when a pickup truck hit a disabled car parked on the shoulder of Interstate 45, police said.
The Galveston County Sheriff's Office stationed more deputies at Texas City High School on Friday morning, after the school received a report of a threat written on a bathroom wall, a school district spokeswoman said.
A 19-year-old man was arrested Wednesday and accused of causing thousands of dollars of damage to rental trailer he lived in with his girlfriend earlier this year, police said.
A police officer attempting to serve a warrant shot and killed a man this morning in the 300 block of Waco Street, the police department reported in a written statement.
Vehicles with tires slashed over the weekend add to those vandalized earlier this summer.
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Galveston's high school was locked down for about an hour on Tuesday morning, after one student told authorities that another student had a gun.
Galveston's Ball High School is on a "precautionary lockdown" this morning as police investigate a report of a weapon on campus.
Two island bartenders were charged with over-serving a Galveston woman accused of running down two bicyclists with her car earlier this summer, killing one of them, police said.
Another round of tire slashings on the island left more than a dozen vehicles damaged on Saturday morning, according to the Galveston Police Department.
A 38-year-old man was arrested Friday, days after he allegedly exposed himself to a 11-year-old child inside a Bacliff discount store, the Galveston Sheriff's Office said.
A 79-year-old woman who was the subject of a search in Texas City on Friday was found safely in Missouri City, police said.
A Galveston man was arrested and charged with multiple felonies earlier this week after he allegedly killed a family pet, and threatened to kill his longtime girlfriend, police said.
During the same incident, the man's 4-year-old son accidentally shot an AK-47 that had apparently been left laying on a bed while fully loaded, police said.
A 40-year-old man was taken to the hospital early Thursday morning following an hours-long standoff with a SWAT team, the Texas City Police Department said.
A former high school softball coach was arrested last week and charged with having an improper relationship with one of her students.
An island woman has been indicted for manslaughter over the June death of a Colombian man in Galveston.
School officials on Friday said they had identified a group of students who were recorded fighting with each other outside Ball High School on Thursday afternoon.
The June killing of a Honduran teenager in Galveston was committed by three MS-13 gang members, police alleged Thursday.
A woman was shot by a Galveston police officer on Thursday evening, after she exited her house armed with a gun, police said.
A woman was shot by a Galveston police officer after she came out of her house with a weapon, police said.
The June killing of a Honduran teenager in Galveston was committed by three MS-13 gang members, police said on Thursday.
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Days after a burned out van was found on Galveston's West End, search crews fanned out around the area to try to find any sign of a missing Houston brother and sister connected to the vehicle.
A Sugarland man was charged with two felonies after fight with a security guard inside a Texas City hospital on Saturday, police said.
Dickinson police Monday were investigating an accident that left two dead late Sunday, but believe it was a tragic accident, officials said.
A lightning strike started a fire at a League City school Sunday, Clear Creek Independent School District officials said.
Demetrius Leonard Santana, 19, pleaded guilty to one count of deadly conduct discharging a firearm and was sentenced as part of a plea agreement, court records show.
The Galveston Police Department warned visitors to the island that they may be towed this holiday weekend if they attempt to park on parts Seawall Boulevard overnight.
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Local officials blamed two house fires on Tuesday on lightning strikes.
Prosecutors have charged two men who were injured in a Fourth of July shooting in the Delany Cove subdivision with conspiracy to commit aggravated robbery.
Thomas Francis Riley IV, 55, pleaded guilty to one count of burglary of a habitation and was sentenced as part of a plea agreement, Assistant District Attorney Ross Hill said.
An island woman was accused of hitting 11 parked motorcycles on Seawall Boulevard on Sunday and then fleeing the scene of the crash, police said.
The U.S. Coast Guard search crews spent most of Monday looking for the owner of an empty kayak on Bolivar Peninsula, but called off the search as night fell
Twenty-one people were retrieved from a stranded boat in Galveston Bay on Sunday evening, the Coast Guard said.
A family of three was briefly the subject of a multi-agency search in the waters off Bolivar Peninsula on Sunday evening.
Police found only 8 ounces of marijuana and no illegal weapons during a May raid in which a League City man was shot and killed, but that doesn’t mean the raid wasn’t warranted or conducted properly, according to a law enforcement expert.
A La Marque man was sentenced Friday to seven years in prison for a 2017 shooting in Dickinson.
Two people arrested in connection to a murder in Texas City on Wednesday evening were found in Central Texas, police said on Thursday.
Two teenagers were arrested Wednesday evening, days after they allegedly took part in the murder of a Texas City woman, police said.
A Coast Guard rescue team retrieved three boaters from the waters off Galveston Island after their boat capsized on Monday afternoon.
Authorities on Monday identified the two women shot inside their home in Bacliff on Saturday evening, as they released more details about the incident that left one of them dead and the other wounded.
Lucia “Lucy” Bertrand was a kind woman and a good mother who seems to have been the victim of a robbery gone wrong, those who knew her said.
A Texas City woman was charged with murder late Saturday in connection with the death of Lucia "Lucy" Bertrand, 33, whose body was found Thursday in a house on Vance Avenue and investigators are searching for a second person, police said.
A 21-year-old woman is dead and her mother is in critical condition after a shooting late Friday in Bacliff, Galveston County Sheriff’s Office officials said.
The Galveston woman stabbed Sunday inside a support group meeting room has died, police said Friday morning.
A grand jury on Thursday handed down two felony indictment against the 17-year-old accused of killing 10 people inside Santa Fe High School in May.
A man arrested in Galveston on Tuesday is accused of stealing a gun from a West End home, and of desperately threatening a pet parrot as he tried to make a getaway, police said.
Police on Thursday were investigating the death of a woman who was found dead inside a home on Vance Avenue.
A 42-year-old man was bitten by a shark in the waters near Crystal Beach on Thursday morning, the Galveston County Sheriff's Office said.
A 79-year-old woman remained in critical condition Wednesday after being stabbed Sunday while setting up for an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, police said.
Police on Tuesday arrested a man and accused him of accidentally hitting and killing a bicyclist on a La Marque road in early February.
A Galveston County grand jury this week is hearing evidence in the case against the 17-year-old accused of killing 10 people in Santa Fe High School on May 18.
The mother of a Houston boy found dead on an island beach last year was indicted by a Galveston County grand jury on Tuesday.
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