Bacliff News

A 25-year old motorcyclist and his 14-year old cousin were injured just before 10 o'clock Saturday evening, when they crashed into a Suburban.

In October of 2008, officers of the League City Police Department were dispatched to a residence to assist with an unresponsive 2 month old baby.

The number of lawsuits filed by jail inmates who weren't evacuated during Hurricane Ike has increased to 22, court records revealed Friday.

The Police News is happy to report that Galveston County Sheriff Freddie Poor has initiated a program of posting sex offenders, newly registered with his department, to The Police News website.

The Police News "Busted Board" . Marie Jane Robertson, 46, was arrested by League City Police for Forging or Altering a Prescription and placed under a $5000 bond.

In Galveston County seven years without registering as a sex offender. A 61-year old Tennesse man who moved to the San Leon-Bacliff area in 2002 was arrested by county and state police this morning and charnged with failing to register as a sex offender.

County commissioners are under the gun to develop a plan for distributing $166 million in Hurricane Ike housing and infrastructure repair and rebuilding grants.

Q. One of your articles mentioned our family. Could you give more information about the Noessels in Corpus Christi? Conrad Noessel A. George Noessel owned two hotels, one in Bastrop, the Noessel House, and the Colorado Exchange on Matagorda Island.

Thanh V. Bui, 33, Russell Wayne Achord Jr., 40, James Arthur Burke Jr., 30, and Gustavo Alfonzo Alvarez, 41, all from the Clear Lake area, have been indicted for money laundering, structuring financial transactions, and conspiracy to operate an illegal gambling business, acting United States Attorney Tim Johnson announced today.

Houston man convicted of rape Prosecutors said evidence about some of the eight other alleged assaults may be admitted.

A woman was restrained and robbed of several thousand dollars after leaving her job at a local game room Friday, police said.

Galveston County Sheriff's investigators hauled off the computer memory boards from several video slot machines, a lockbox full of cash and even an ice machine after a raid Monday afternoon at an 8-liner game room in Bacliff.

Legislation in the Texas House and Senate could give authorities more power to police video slot machines, commonly called 8-liners. Senate Bill 309, front-runner among two bills that survived committees, attempts to regulate the industry by forcing people operating more than 10 video slot machines to get location licenses and comply with certain ...

Seven months after Hurricane Ike hit Texas hard early last fall, the misery in small towns along the Gulf coast remains, Bill Taylor told Rotary Club of Aiken members earlier this week.

Death-row inmate could get new hearing A convicted killer sentenced to die for the 1993 slaying of a college teacher will soon return to Galveston Rain blamed for series of wrecks Slick roads from the second ...

Slick roads from the second day of steady rain were being blamed for a series of accidents on Saturday, including a fatal wreck in Bacliff.

Residents who live in the canal-lined communities of Bayou Vista, Omega Bay and Old Bayou Vista may want to spend their weekend pulling their fish lights and crab traps out of the water.

Two FEMA/State Disaster Recovery Centers in Galveston County are scheduled to close soon, but another facility will remain open in the City of Galveston.

Law enforcement officials rarely ask the public to help find a kid they are certain has run away.

Homeowners whose houses were flooded by Hurricane Ike and who want to let the federal government buy their property or pay to have it raised are invited to a series of county-sponsored meetings next week.