Galveston County News

I thought the idea of "super precincts" - that is to say, early voting-style locations on Election Day - had already been shot down .

The discovery of two unidentified bodies in Galveston County, Texas, has raised the death toll from Hurricane Ike to at least 31, officials said Monday.

BOLIVAR PENINSULA, Texas : Jerrith Baird last spoke to his grandmother by telephone the night Hurricane Ike swept away most of the houses on this narrow spit of land.

Search crews recovered the bodies of two Hurricane Ike victims in debris fields in Galveston County this afternoon, raising the Houston-Galveston death toll to 35, authorities said.

The final hours brought the awful realization to victims of Hurricane Ike that they had waited too long.

In the aftermath of Hurricane Ike, the communities of Galveston, Harris, Brazoria and Jefferson counties are still struggling to recover from the devastation.

A 19-year-old woman who reported her mother missing is now charged with killing her after officials found the mother's decomposing body in a Brazoria County field.

Search teams looking for as many as 50 people who remain missing since Hurricane Ike have identified five ``hot spots'' where they will focus their efforts today, officials said.

The Texas Secretary of State visited Galveston County to help them figure out how to hold an election, after Hurricane Ike destroyed nearly one out of five polling stations.

A man found dead in the waters off Bolivar Peninsula over the weekend was identified by the Galveston County Medical Examiner on Monday as a resident of Gilchrist.

With several polling locations in the southern portion of Galveston County heavily damaged by Hurricane Ike, the county's commissioners court expects by Oct.

The Galveston County Daily News will resume limited home delivery on Galveston Island Wednesday morning, about five days ahead of schedule .

Three more bodies have been discovered along parts of Texas's Gulf Coast ravaged by Hurricane Ike.

The Texas death toll from Hurricane Ike rose to at least 32 with the discovery of three bodies found this weekend amid storm debris in Galveston and Orange counties.

Officials in Galveston County, Texas continue searching for hundreds still missing two weeks after Hurricane Ike.

Traffic heading south to Galveston on Interstate 45 backs up near La Marque, Texas, on Wednesday morning Sept.

The Examiner has learned the decomposed body of female found amidst a tangle of debris approximately one-half mile south of FM 562 in Chambers County has been identified as Gail Ettinger, 58, of Gilchrist.

The deaths of two more people in Galveston have been linked to Hurricane Ike, raising the storm's death toll in Texas to at least 29.

A coalition of citizen groups urged Gov. Rick Perry on Friday to use emergency powers to extend the Oct.

Three newspapers, including The Daily News, and the Associated Press, filed a motion Thursday asking that the Florida judge presiding over U.S. District Judge Samuel B. Kent's criminal case modify a gag order ...