Hitchcock News

From Motown to Gary, Ind., and from Los Angeles to Hitchcock, millions of Michael Jackson fans wept, danced and sang in memorial for the self-proclaimed King of Pop, who died last week.

It might have been the Fourth of July, but Daryl Mickens wanted to mix in a commemoration of the King of Pop while celebrating the actions of the Founding Fathers.

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A huge benefit staged June 13th for Galveston Police Officer Chris Sanderson could not have been more successful, providing over $30,000 to help the young officer in his battle with cancer.

An exhibition on slavery winds along dark wood walls in Stringfellow Orchard House in Hitchcock, with paintings richly detailing a story of pain and hope.

Saturday's Gospel by the Sea Concert may leave the audience thinking there would be no way to improve on the evening of uplifting performances, but Sunday's Gospel Brunch features a similar pairing of traditional and sublime offerings.

No one was hurt in a fire at a house in the 6800 block of West Bayou that the Hitchcock fire chief said started in the garage.

The Police News is happy to report that Galveston County Sheriff Freddie Poor has initiated a program of posting sex offenders, newly registered with his department, to The Police News website.

Here's one benefit of a sour economy: Taxpayers aren't having to shell out as much for city and school bond projects as they originally expected.

James Dearden's remake of a 1956 quickie isn't so much modernized as deliberately old-fashioned. Specifically, Hitchcock-fashioned. Not, in fact, since early De Palma has anybody labored so hard to emulate The Master.

Some public school students will be moved to other island elementary schools in the fall to make room for a nationally recognized charter school opening in Rosenberg Elementary School.

Chris Armacost, Hitchcock's Director of IT, leads a three-person team that is responsible for supporting every aspect of the school district's infrastructure -- end-user devices, the network, applications and mission-critical databases.

A Washington state man says a hope chest that floated away from Southeast Texas during Hurricane Ike belongs to his family.

A water-damaged hope chest with family documents of a 1969 high school graduate in Oklahoma has reached shore in Texas.

History in La Marque may have been delayed were it not for someone carrying a copy of the New Testament.

Saturday, for the first time in the history of Galveston County, an African-American woman was elected mayor.

From Tiki Island north to League City and from Hitchcock east to Kemah, voters will go to the polls today in 14 municipal and school district elections.

When it comes to the top problem in Hitchcock, the two men vying for mayor find something they agree on.

Before I left England to join The First Lady in sometimes sunny southeast Texas, a colleague at The Daily Express, the British national newspaper I was working at in those days, gave me two pairs of cowboy boots.

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