Webster News

Megan Dillon thought she'd recover from flu symptoms with a little rest last month, just like everyone else in her Webster household.

Operation: The University of Texas Medical Branch continues to strengthen its League City presence, this time leasing 15,000 square feet in the Brittany Bay Center, 1600 League City Parkway.

As part of an ongoing drug investigation, Friendswood Police arrested one suspect early Saturday morning.

Crime Stoppers, investigators with the Webster Police Department and the Gulf Coast Violent Offenders Task Force are seeking the public's assistance in locating Anthony Terrell Jackson.

If restaurant openings are an economic indicator, the last month would seem to signify that things are picking back up -- at least in Houston.

Starting Monday, children 12 years old and younger no longer will be allowed to visit family and friends in John Sealy Hospital, a policy designed to slow the spread of the swine flu .

Ryan Trecartin, a young Philadelphia painter and sculptor whose psychedelic, desultory, kitschy video work has found love among critics and collectors, has been given the first $150,000 Wolgin Prize - one of the richest art prizes in the world.

Jim Blackburn, of Rice University, and William King, former mayor of Kemah, are beginning a series of presentations to encourage advanced flood protection for Galveston County and the surrounding area.

City officials knew for years about problems plaguing a water distribution plant but apparently never told the city council, according to memos and e-mails. The city bought the plant on state Highway 3 in Webster from the Gulf Coast Water Authority in 2000 for $175,000 and spent $1 million in 2005 trying to fix it.

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Rockets that use charged particles to propel fast missions to Mars are one step closer, now a small-scale prototype has been demonstrated at full power.

More than 1,200 Harris County DWI convictions will be set aside and the cases revisited, prosecutors said Friday after the sentencing of Deetrice Wallace, a Department of Public Safety contractor who faked inspections of alcohol breath testing devices.

Rockets that would use charged particles to propel super-fast missions to Mars are one step closer, now that a small-scale prototype has been demonstrated at full power.

A man has been arrested with the 1985 stabbing death of an elderly woman in Webster when he was a teen.

Concord Hospitality Enterprises, one of the nation's top-ranked hotel developer/owner/operators, today announced that it has entered the initial stage of forming a $300 million discretionary private equity fund.

Pappasitos Cantina in Webster, Texas has some of the best Tex-Mex in town. The flavors and ingredients are nothing short of pure authenticity, not to mention a drink menu is nothing short of spectacular.

October is Breast Cancer Awareness month and what better way to celebrate than to schedule your annual mammogram? The death rate from breast cancer has dropped more than 2% a year for the past decade.

Flower power: One of the island's oldest floral businesses is blooming again. Knapp Flower Shop, in its 84th year of business, has made a post-Ike return.

Welcome back: A mid-sized employer returned to the island last week, a year after storm surge damaged a building it leases downtown.

Thursday night Friendswood Police seized marijuana with an estimated street value of $10,500. Police served a search and arrest warrant at The Falls Apartments, 801 E Nasa Road One in Webster at approximately 9:36 p.m. The warrant was the result of ongoing narcotics investigations in the Friendswood area.