Friendswood News

Hair Balls is scratching our head over Republican Senator Larry Taylor's recent flip-flop on a bill that would effectively ban the already federally prohibited practice of "shark finning" in Texas waters -- i.e., catching a shark, cutting off its fin for use in a very expensive soup, and then tossing it back in the water, where it dies an agonizing ... (more)

Senate Bill 1702, authored by Sen. Larry Taylor, R-Friendswood, extends indefinitely the alternative certification program of the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association through which thousands of homes receive wind and hailstorm insurance.

Sen. Larry Taylor, R-Friendswood, is blaming Steve Mostyn, the Houston attorney and Democratic mega-donor who in many ways has become the face of windstorm litigation since Hurricane Ike, as the primary reason Taylor's Senate Bill 1700 is dead.

On the afternoon of May 4, Jeanette Ochoa, 26, was shot in the head by her ex, Joshua David World, and transported to Ben Taub General Hospital in critical condition.

State Senator Larry Taylor announced the passage of SB 1700 through the Senate Business and Commerce Committee today.

A Friendswood family whose daughter disappeared 16 years ago helped the DeJesus family look for their daughter Gina when she went missing in 2004.

The U.S. Marshal's office was serving an aggravated assault warrant to 29-year-old Joshua World at the Mafia Tuscan Lakes Apartments on Sunday night.

HOUSTON A suspect who boldly shot his ex-girlfriend in the head in broad daylight Saturday managed to ditch police during a high-speed chase along I-45 Sunday evening.

A man is dead and another is in serious condition after a boating accident Friday night at the Double D Ranch in Rosanky, authorities said Saturday.

Jennifer Reynolds/The Galveston County Daily News Scotch, a two-year-old Lab-pit bull mix who has a new home in Arkansas after being rescued from the Alvin Animal Shelter by Angela McGhee, a volunteer with S.A.V.E. Rescue .

FRIENDSWOOD, Texas School officials at Friendswood High School were on high alert Friday after a death threat was found written on a bathroom wall earlier in the week.

A classroom full of Galveston fourth-graders Thursday gathered expectantly in front of a live-stream video to watch the Texas Senate vote on the bill they wrote making the endangered Kemp's ridley the official sea turtle of Texas.

Epps fled out the back door pursued by the canine which quickly took him to the ground.

"It's kinda freaky, but things in Friendswood are normally jokes," said sophomore Annica Marcuccio.

"It's kinda freaky, but things in Friendswood are normally jokes," said sophomore Annica Marcuccio.

A heart transplant, tragedy and Facebook were all part of the plot uniting a rescued Alvin dog with an Arkansas boy with a new heart.