Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Investigators discovered a list of nine rules for the 2-year-old girl known initially as Baby Grace in a spiral notebook found in a storage room rented by her stepfather, Royce Clyde Zeigler II, jurors learned today during the fourth day of Zeigler’s capital murder trial.
The Whig (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
The National Weather Service says there have been reports from counties southwest of Houston of accumulations of 3 to 4 inches. There have been reports of half an inch or less in Houston with suburbs south of the city reporting 1 to 2 inches. As of 4:00PM Friday there were reports of snow on Galveston Island. Earlier in the day it had been snowing as far southwest as Victoria. Many records...
Climateer Investing (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
From the Houston Chronicle: Lessons from a quiet storm season The 2009 hurricane season officially ends today with just nine named storms having developed in the Atlantic basin, a nice break after the disastrous 2008 season that sent Hurricane Ike barreling into Galveston Island. Here are four things we know after six months of tracking the tropics, and one thing we don’t. What...
AstrosDaily.com's Astrowire (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
GALVESTON — Misdemeanor charges against five people, including a former Houston Astros pitcher, remain in limbo more than 13 months after 30 police officers stormed an upscale bar.On Oct. 5, 2008, Galveston police entered H2O, a bar in the San Luis Resort Hotel on Galveston’s seawall.The incident at H2O followed a post-Hurricane Ike wedding and reception after guests left the Galveston...
Pondering Penguin (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Texas Federation of Republican Women held the 27th Biennial convention in Galveston last weekend. More than 700 women came together at the Galveston Island Convention Center. The weather was sunny and pleasant and only added to the experience. An election cycle is approaching and every recognizable name in Texas politics, whether on the local, state or federal level, had a presence....
Cool Science News (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
2006 Bugatti Veyron Crashes On Video, Posted To Facebook -- Christian Science Monitor Facebook video of a 2006 Bugatti Veyron crash shows the car making a wall of water as it hits a Texas lagoon. No one was injured in the crash. It’s one of the rarest cars on the road, and Galveston, Tex. medical school student Joe Garza saw it crash on his way to get groceries. He and a friend were driving...
Christian Science Monitor (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
It's one of the rarest cars on the road, and Galveston, Tex. medical school student Joe Garza saw it crash on his way to get groceries. He and a friend were driving off of Galveston Island when they pulled up alongside the $2 million French supercar, believed to be one of ...
Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Share GALVESTON – Friends of Royce Clyde Zeigler II said today he was a loving, caring person they didn’t believe was capable of killing his stepdaughter, who came to be known as Baby Grace. “We were all shocked, we couldn’t believe it,” neighbor Melanie Allard said about Zeigler’s arrest on capital murder charges in November 2007. “I still don’t believe it,” said Allard, who lived across the...
