Danbury News

Hours after a co-worker was shot during the second armed robbery at a Rosharon convenience store in a week, three clerks stood close together behind the counter.

As Ryan Alpeter bounced on a large ball and counted to 100, his smile said he was having fun, not getting therapy for Asperger's syndrome.

When potential employers are looking for an area in which to invest and when potential homebuyers are looking for an area to settle, they consider quality of life: schools, amenities and proximity to quality medical care.

Opperud, 47, died Tuesday morning of complications from an aneurysm that burst while he was training drug dogs in Louisiana on Nov.

A toad joined the mockingbird, pecan tree and bluebonnet as an official representative of Texas after Danbury Elementary School students realized the state had not chosen its own amphibian.

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

News of a hospital coming to Alvin cured what ailed Pete Nash. The physical therapist and Alvin Community College regent chair remembered the years he and other residents fought to bring a hospital to town.

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

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.

A Brazoria County sheriff's deputy was hit on the head with part of an outdoor lamp after a prisoner bolted from the courthouse Thursday, police said.

Danbury ISD trustees slimmed down a failed bond issue from two years ago, but voters rejected the new $8.9 million issue for an athletic facility and renovations, according to unofficial results Tuesday night.

Early voting turnout in Brazoria County was higher than the predicted state average, apparently driven by bond elections in two of the county's biggest school districts.

Looking at her, charred, two-story home, Janice Blalock said she's not sure what she and her family will do.

By the process of elimination, we can tell where 163,655 of Brazoria County's 166,484 registered voters haven't been since the morning hours of Oct.

Use of cell phones while driving in school zones is illegal only when signs stating so are posted, but one month after the law made it an option, not all southern and central Brazoria County entities have decided to place the signs.

Dylan Price never has had his cell phone confiscated, but if he had, he'd pay the $15 fine to get it back.

Dylan Price never has had his cell phone confiscated, but if he had, he'd pay the $15 fine to get it back.

An overheated electrical line likely is the cause of a half-dozen fires which combined into one and burned more than 50 acres of grass and brush Thursday along FM 523.

An overheated electrical line likely is the cause of a half-dozen fires which combined into one and burned more than 50 acres of grass and brush Thursday along FM 523.

As firefighters hacked through the roof to put out a spreading fire, Juchway Rhodes worried only about getting his wife's ashes out of the house.