La Porte News

The Department of Transportation has issued the following announcement concerning certain Transportation Worker Identification Credential enrollment centers.

Thursday I buzzed the rumor that Gringo's Mexican Kitchen , a popular eatery in Texas City, was planning a site in League City.

Sizzling dish: The Gringo's Mexican Kitchen in Texas City always packs in the hungry crowds.

Bayshore Elementary School students and staff are celebrating the news that their campus has officially earned an Exemplary rating from the Texas Education Agency.

LA PORTE, Texas Energy One Federal Credit Union of Tulsa has opened a branch at the Oxy La Porte VCM Plant in La Porte, Texas.

Two 18-wheelers collided in a fiery crash in La Porte Friday afternoon. It happened just before 2 p.m. at Highway 146 and Highway 225.

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Beginning October 7, 2009, students who were eligible to receive free and reduced-priced meals based on last school year's eligibility will no longer receive benefits unless a 2009-10 application has been turned in and processed by the Nutrition Department by October 6. Free and reduced-eligible students who do not have a current application on ...

The Harris County Toll Road Authority is hoping to get your input on a proposed toll road from La Porte to Pasadena.

A container ship has been docked in the Bayport Cruise Terminal for almost two weeks and neighbors say it's been spewing black smoke.

Patsy Thomson's Shore Acres home was one of many destroyed by Hurricane Ike. "I raised seven adopted children, so at one point all the rooms were all bedrooms," Thomson said as she guided 11 News through what was left of her house.

As noted in our blog about a Douglas County school allowing parents to opt out of letting their kids watch President Barack Obama's speech to children on Tuesday , we pointed out that other Commanders-in-Chief have directly addressed younglings -- among them President George W. Bush, who asked America's kids to each donate a dollar to the plight of ...

A man shot himself in the chest after a standoff with the Pasadena SWAT team in La Porte on Saturday.

Indulge in the fried seafood with the fisherman's platter. Where: 4406 Independence Parkway South, 281-479-1521. Details: Hours: 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sundays through Thursdays; 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays.

Running back Quentin Castille has been dismissed from the Nebraska football team.

A mother convicted of brutally disfiguring her baby will soon learn her punishment for the crime.

Bullritos is proud to open its newest franchised restaurant, located at 1960 and Eldridge in Houston.

We hope people opposed to League City building a center to collect household hazardous waste are, as they claim, just wanting more information about the project and not practicing the sort of knee-jerk Nimbyism that often keeps worthwhile projects from getting done.

We hope people opposed to League City building a center to collect household hazardous waste are, as they claim, just wanting more information about the project and not practicing the sort of knee-jerk Nimbyism that often keeps worthwhile projects from getting done.

Published: Monday, August 3, 2009 at 6:01 a.m. Last Modified: Sunday, August 2, 2009 at 7:29 p.m. On July 20, Americans marked the 40th anniversary of the first manned landing on the moon - this country's triumph in the space race launched by President John F. Kennedy in 1961.