San Leon News

The Good Sam Club, the world's largest recreational vehicle owners' organization with nearly 1 million member families, has announced the recipients of the Good Sam 2009 RVer of the Year Award, according to a news release.

The cooks at Gilhooley's in San Leon, Texas, grill their oysters with parmesan; broiling them works, too.

The 72-hour notice to vacate the federally owned trailer in front of his hurricane-damaged house in San Leon left Caleb Dickson dumbfounded.

An estranged common-law husband used a shotgun to kill a 23-year-old San Leon woman and wound her dog before shooting himself in the head, the Galveston County Sheriff's Office said today.

Despite giving up 5 inches and 50 pounds, a 79-year-old man knocked an acquaintance unconscious in a bar fight about a woman, authorities allege.

There was an explosion at a Seabrook area plant on Wednesday, KPRC Local 2 reported.

The Galveston County Sheriff's Office, Citizen Sheriff's Academy Alumni Association is gearing up for the 2009 appearance of "Deputy Claus" when he visits with Christmas gifts for needy families.

Sick of corporate Christmas? Try shopping local. Hair Balls presents a 12-part series highlighting ideas for holiday gifts made and sold in Texas.

SAN LEON, Tex. -- A year after Hurricane Ike devastated Galveston Bay's oyster beds, the oystermen who have been harvesting seafood from the bay's fertile waters for generations are barely hanging on, and many fear that this could be their last oyster season.

This week we watched some heavy rain move in along and off the gulf coast, fortunately we did not see any flooding.

The fishing boat parted the canal waters as if it were opening a curtain. In the folds of wake that followed burned the reflection of the evening sky over Dickinson Bay.

The holiday season is fast approaching and so is the last day of the hurricane season.

What's lovelier than a dockside patio or a table under a 100-year-old oak? A bottle of wine, a plate of good food and a friend with whom to share both.

My first oysters on the half shell this season came from Captain Benny's in Austin.

Happy readers are calling to report the return of Clary's Seafood Restaurant, which quietly reopened this weekend more than a year after Hurricane Ike wreaked havoc on the island institution, 8509 Teichman Road.

Firefighters rescued three men Friday from barges set adrift as a cold front blew through the county with 40-mph wind gusts and heavy rains, officials said.

San Leon residents Marvin Peyton, left, and Greg Tate suspend mesh bags full of oyster shells from a fishing pier to be used as nurseries for oysters and other wildlife.

Galveston County Sheriff's deputies need to talk to a "good Samaritan" that helped a woman after a reported sexual assault in San Leon last week.

Had enough of Hurricane Ike yet? Get ready for more - in print, on television and radio, and online.

Police want to question the ex-boyfriend of a woman who was found dead Monday night in what investigators believe was a domestic killing outside an apartment complex, authorities said Tuesday.