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.
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.
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
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...
Docuticker (Free subscription) | 04/10/2009
Hurricane Ike Rapid Needs Assessment — Houston, Texas, September 2008 Source: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (CDC) On the morning of September 13, 2008, Hurricane Ike made landfall on the upper Texas Gulf coast at Galveston Island as a category 2 storm, with hurricane force winds extending 125 miles from its center (1). As the storm [...]
Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 01/10/2009
The once proud Flagship Hotel, for decades a prominent feature on Galveston Island, has been reduced to a battered, unwanted reminder of Ike.
Peak Scientific Instruments (Free subscription) | 30/09/2009
We will be attending the Gulf Coast Conference taking place October 13 - 14 in Galveston Island, Texas. Visit us at our booth 317 and say hello to us.
The Houston Business Journal (Free subscription) | 29/09/2009
The two cruise lines that sail from Galveston Island are heading to court to resolve a dispute with harbor pilots that guide the ships as they arrive and leave port.
Stayin' Alive (Free subscription) | 28/09/2009
... more distant future. It's the same reason why people live on the slopes of active volcanoes or on Galveston Island. (Well, come to think of it, hardly anybody lives on Galveston any more.) Economists model this as the discount rate. The future just doesn't matter as much as the present because we expect to have more in the future; our investments will grow so we can buy our...
Hope Radio (Free subscription) | 24/09/2009
As everyone knows, Hurricane Ike slammed Galveston Island about this time last year. The storm took it's toll and is still taking its toll on the island's economy and the beautiful oak trees that lined public buildings and esplanades. The wind wasn't nearly as damaging as the salt water that seeped into the ground and poisoned these often 100 year old natural umbrellas which spread...
