Galveston, South Padre Island and the Texas Gulf Coast (Great Destinations)
Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
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.
Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 14/10/2009
About 1,200 prospective jury pool members appeared Wednesday at the Galveston County Courthouse as proceedings got under way for the second capital murder trial in the death of 2-year-old Riley Ann Sawyers, known as Baby Grace until her body was identified.
AstrosDaily.com's Astrowire (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
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) | 16/11/2009
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) | 14/11/2009
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) | 13/11/2009
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) | 04/11/2009
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...
Baby Chums (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
The final jury selection process begin this morning in the Baby Grace capital murder trial of Royce Clyde Zeigler II, the 2-year-old’s stepfather. He is accused of beating the child to death and then tossing her body off the Galveston Island railroad bridge. Little Riley Ann Sawyer was nicknamed Baby Grace until her body was identified. Zeigler’s [...] Source: Baby Chums
The Mex Files (Free subscription) | 24/10/2009
... Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca and Estaban the Slave might have had during their sojourn on Galveston Island in the 1530s.
Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
... said its president, Michael Martin.With a population of 60,000, the community is larger than Galveston Island even if it is divided between the two counties, Harris County Judge Ed Emmett said. The GMBAC is patterned after Houston's Super Neighborhood program. Currently, the homeowners groups represent about 25,000 residents in the Mission Bend area.Like other areas on the outskirts...
Baby Chums (Free subscription) | 14/10/2009
The jury selection process began Wednesday, October 14, in the second capital murder trial in the death of 2-year old Riley Ann Sawyers, the little girl known as Baby Grace until her body was identified. Approximately 1,200 prospective jury pool members appeared at the Galveston County Courthouse to begin the selection process. The trial is scheduled [...] Source: Baby Chums
