Danbury News

Brent Mitchell's attention didn't waver from a spinning metal contraption on which an acrobat climbed two stories above the ground.

News of a hospital coming to Alvin cured what ailed Pete Nash. The physical therapist and Alvin Community College regent chair remembered the years he and other residents fought to bring a hospital to town.

Angleton Danbury Medical Center is giving help by bushel during a weeklong celebration of their 40th anniversary in the community.

An Alvin woman died Tuesday morning after police said the car she was driving was hit by a pickup after it tried to pass a dump truck off FM 2403.

A Brazoria County sheriff's deputy was hit on the head with part of an outdoor lamp after a prisoner bolted from the courthouse Thursday, police said.

Danbury ISD trustees slimmed down a failed bond issue from two years ago, but voters rejected the new $8.9 million issue for an athletic facility and renovations, according to unofficial results Tuesday night.

Early voting turnout in Brazoria County was higher than the predicted state average, apparently driven by bond elections in two of the county's biggest school districts.

Looking at her, charred, two-story home, Janice Blalock said she's not sure what she and her family will do.

By the process of elimination, we can tell where 163,655 of Brazoria County's 166,484 registered voters haven't been since the morning hours of Oct.

Use of cell phones while driving in school zones is illegal only when signs stating so are posted, but one month after the law made it an option, not all southern and central Brazoria County entities have decided to place the signs.

Dylan Price never has had his cell phone confiscated, but if he had, he'd pay the $15 fine to get it back.

Dylan Price never has had his cell phone confiscated, but if he had, he'd pay the $15 fine to get it back.

An overheated electrical line likely is the cause of a half-dozen fires which combined into one and burned more than 50 acres of grass and brush Thursday along FM 523.

An overheated electrical line likely is the cause of a half-dozen fires which combined into one and burned more than 50 acres of grass and brush Thursday along FM 523.

As firefighters hacked through the roof to put out a spreading fire, Juchway Rhodes worried only about getting his wife's ashes out of the house.

In a hot medium grain rice market, it's understandable that medium grain acreage has increased this year in the Southern rice-growing states.

Mothers for years have told children to wash their hands, and Mother Nature put the squeeze on cleaner extremities after this spring's H1N1 virus scare.

Homicide detectives were investigating a murder in Brazoria County Tuesday after a bloody victim collapsed outside of a bar.

A Lake Jackson man died at the hospital early Tuesday after workers at a Brazoria County nightclub found him stabbed several times outside the bar.

Jennifer Hathcock has four children, is pregnant with twins and when she has time, she offers massage therapy at her home.