Bayou Vista News

A Tiki Island man burdened by financial problems, including the impending loss of his home, shot his wife to death and confronted police with a pistol in hopes that they would kill him, a Galveston County sheriff's officer said today.

Alida and Tom Duggan are fighting contractors, their insurance company and the bank in a struggle to rebuild their home in Bayou Vista, destroyed by Hurricane Ike.

It's four months before Democratic and Republican primaries and already candidates are lining up for the 2010 county elections.

Thirty-eight years ago, after a brief stint in the insurance business, Mary Ann Daigle joined the Galveston County Clerk's Office.

A fisherman told a jury Thursday morning how he found the decomposing body of Baby Grace.

It's a bad time for a tax increase, but city officials have made a convincing case that Santa Fe residents should invest in public buildings.

Charities armed with federal dollars to help hurricane victims find help Monday recruited Galveston County mayors, constables, firefighters and postmasters to help them track down people still living in hurricane-damaged homes.

Before Hurricane Ike, Sidney Lampman rented the first floor of her sister's two-story house on West Hunter Drive in Old Bayou Vista.

More than a foot of rainwater pools Thursday morning 10/22/09 on Galveston's Ferry Road, stranding cars.

A Galveston County jury returned a murder conviction Friday in the case of a man accused of helping torture and inject a lethal dose of narcotics into the arm of a Houston man.

A second suspect is set to go to trial today in the case of a man who was tortured and given a lethal dose of drugs.

After a lot of hand wringing, the Santa Fe City Council this week approved putting three bond proposals on the November ballot.

Prosecutors played Friday a 4 1/2-hour videotaped recording of a defendant's statements to authorities, but it's unclear whether the jury hearing the murder trial could understand the conversations.

More than a dozen people were evacuated from the Cedar Ridge apartments late Monday after an engineer determined the building was at risk of collapsing.

More than a dozen people were evacuated from the Cedar Ridge apartments late Monday after an engineer determined the building was at risk of collapsing.

A man accused of trying to dispose of a body was "so high" he couldn't complete the task, a state prosecutor said in opening arguments of the defendant's Tuesday murder trial.

More than a dozen people were evacuated from the Cedar Ridge apartments late Monday after an engineer determined the building was at risk of collapsing.

More than a dozen people were evacuated from the Cedar Ridge apartments late Monday after an engineer determined the building was at risk of collapsing.

Niki Deanne Sinclair was smart and successful - a respected physical therapist at UTMB Hospital in Galveston, a student earning her doctorate from Texas Woman's University, a woman with a loving husband and three residential properties on the island.

Police say the man that leaped to his death from the top floor of a downtown building Wednesday afteroon was 50-year old Kendall McKnight of Bayou Vista.