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Fox local. Jyesha Johnson. July 21, 2024 at 4:08 PM. Galveston - A car ran off Galveston’s Pier 21 and sank into the harbor early Sunday morning. It happened shortly after 1:00 a.m. The ...
July 17, 2024 at 11:18 AM. GALVESTON, Texas - A lineman is accused of assaulting another lineman, who was left in critical condition in Galveston, authorities say. Trevor Tedore, 24, of Sugar Land ...
Galveston (/ ˈ ɡ æ l v ɪ s t ən / GAL-vis-tən) is a coastal resort city and port off the Southeast Texas coast on Galveston Island and Pelican Island in the U.S. state of Texas.The community of 211.31 square miles (547.3 km 2), with a population of 53,695 at the 2020 census, [6] is the county seat of surrounding Galveston County and second-largest municipality in the county.
Map of Galveston in 1871 Galveston City Railway Company c 1894. At the end of the 19th century, the city of Galveston was a booming metropolis with a population of 37,000. Its position on the natural harbor of Galveston Bay along the Gulf of Mexico made it the center of trade in Texas, and one of the largest cotton ports in the nation, in competition with New Orleans.
The Texas Killing Fields is a title used to roughly denote the area surrounding the Interstate Highway 45 corridor southeast of Houston, where since the early 1970s, more than 30 bodies have been found, and specifically to a 25- acre patch of land in League City, Texas [1] where four women were found between 1983 and 1991.
GALVESTON COUNTY, Texas - One man is facing charges in Galveston County following a roofing fraud investigation, officials said. According to a release, Michael Kennedy, 41, of Dickinson, was ...
Republic of Galveston Island / Open Era of Galveston. The Free State of Galveston (sometimes referred to as the Republic of Galveston Island) was a satirical name given to the coastal city of Galveston in the U.S. state of Texas during the early-to-mid-20th century. Today, the term is sometimes used to describe the culture and history of that era.
A barge slammed into a bridge in Galveston on Wednesday, spilling oil into the bay and forcing a shutdown of the Texas span, officials said, in the latest accident involving prominent U.S ...