Angleton News

Brent Mitchell's attention didn't waver from a spinning metal contraption on which an acrobat climbed two stories above the ground.

Lauren Smith's Thanksgiving will be less than traditional, but it will still be part of an 83-year-old American celebration.

Sam Houston baseball coach Mark Johnson has announced four Texas high school players have signed letters of intent to play for the Bearkats.

Angleton Superintendent Heath Burns stands in the hallway at Frontier Elementary School with Principal Vicki Harmon Thursday after visiting classrooms.

Police charged a 19-year-old Angleton woman with fraudulent use of coupons, a state jail felony, after they say she re-used coupons from the business where she worked to save her friends more than $2,000, Officer Belinda Rickman said.

When Angleton Danbury Medical Center first was envisioned, some predicted the original building would 'make a good hay barn,' said Dorothy Jane Neal, a charter member of the hospital's auxiliary.

A shortage of goods at area food pantries has those who run them concerned it's going to be a difficult holiday season, and predictions the economy will remain sluggish don't brighten things up.

Angleton Danbury Medical Center is giving help by bushel during a weeklong celebration of their 40th anniversary in the community.

Police believe they're "very close to making an arrest" of the man they said robbed a sandwich shop at gunpoint Thursday night.

Strong southwest flow aloft will start to show in the lower layers this weekend, resulting in a spell of very warm and humid weather.

An Alvin woman died Tuesday morning after police said the car she was driving was hit by a pickup after it tried to pass a dump truck off FM 2403.

Merchants benefited from the growing number of residents brought to the area by jobs offered by Dow in the 1940s - and from the overall increase in the county's prosperity - and many new businesses opened to meet the demands of increased population and affluence.

A random call to go to another area on Fort Hood pulled Angleton soldier Sgt. Michael Easterling away from where officials say an Army officer opened fire and killed 13 people.

Junior jack-of-all-trades athlete Quandre Diggs picked up his sixth offer on Thursday.

A perfect morning for a race blessed the inaugural Most Holy Trinity Church Fun Run as Brazoswood and Angleton cross-country runners posted benchmark times for future races.

One man was killed and a woman was critically wounded Sunday night when gunfire erupted inside a car on Interstate 45.

Charles Fricker usually spends his Friday nights helping to direct a high school band, but this time next year, he'll be hitting notes on a marimba as a member of a U.S. Army band in Iraq.

Forty days is a common time span in the Bible. God used 40 days to transform the world, Noah's ark survived 40 days and nights of rain, Moses was on Mount Sinai for 40 days and Jesus fasted for 40 days before his crucifixion.

Roads were in poor shape and Freeport could be reached by only one that led from Angleton and one from West Columbia when Dow arrived in Brazoria County.

Leroy Bieri has worked on or operated his family's Bieri Farms for 50 years, and for those efforts has reaped an award he calls a dream come true.