Hitchcock News

HITCHCOCK, Texas - A grass-roots effort is building among volunteers and faith-based agencies to get a Hitchcock woman back to her home for the holidays.

Local hunters can shoot for a good cause by donating meat they don't eat or use.

Students in Hitchcock and La Marque donned pink and staged events Friday to raise awareness about breast cancer.

More than a foot of rainwater pools Thursday morning 10/22/09 on Galveston's Ferry Road, stranding cars.

A motorcyclist attempting to pass an automobile died after colliding head-on with an oncoming sport utility vehicle, authorities said Monday.

The first meeting of a U.S. president and a Mexican president took place 100 years ago Friday, when William Howard Taft met Porfirio Diaz on Oct.

Police said a man wanted for burglary led officers on an hourlong foot chase that involved five different law enforcement agencies Friday morning.

The jury that will hear the murder trial of a stepfather charged in the death of Baby Grace will come from a pool of 179 potential jurors, Galveston County District Attorney Kurt Sistrunk said.

Niche market: For some time, people who have family members buried at Mainland Memorial Cemetery, 6602 O'Brien St., in Hitchcock have confronted managers about the tall grass and other conditions of the grounds.

A few blocks north of the Fort Worth Convention Center and its supporting cast of restaurants, wine bars, and plush hotels, the railroad still rolls into town much as it did in 1876, when the city became a major shipping point for livestock headed to northern markets.

A man was arrested after leading police on a high-speed car pursuit and foot chase through marshlands about 3 a.m. Sunday, police said.

When crews today finish digging a 3,500-foot drainage ditch, storm water runoff should drain into West Bay, rather than pooling in streets and backyards, county officials said.

The hunt is on for a sex offender wanted in connection to a murder in La Marque.

GalvestonCountyPoliceNews.Com - A POLICE NEWS EXCLUSIVE - The Police News September 17, 2009 UPDATE: 3:42PM Law enforcement officials have now identified the captured gang member as 21-year old Aldo Guzman, a criminal alien from Mexico who has once been deported from the U.S. Guzman is wanted in Hall County, Georgia on charges of Street Gang ...

Firefighters are battling a massive fire in Texas City. St. John's United Methodist Church on 16th Avenue caught on fire around 9 p.m. The pastor, along with a few other people, was inside the church when the fire started.

Despite a huge decrease in property values, a sluggish economy, a tax rate increase to fund health care and struggles to recover from Hurricane Ike, the county's credit rating still is pretty good.

College of the Mainland trustees Monday appeared to shy away from raising the tax rate, even though not doing so likely will force trustees to dip into the college's savings account to make up a $2.5 million budget shortfall.

The Galveston school district no longer allows islanders to walk and jog on the new track at Spoor Field.

A school principal who's been on administrative leave for months has filed a whistle-blower lawsuit against the distict.

Today may be the 110th anniversary of Alfred Hitchcock's birth, but the fruits of his five-decade long career in film are as fresh as a daisy laid on a newly dug grave.