La Marque News

Rewriting history: Will history haunt developers planning a large-scale condominium, marina and retail project along the island's Offatts Bayou? It's sure starting to look that way.

Communities across Galveston County are holding parades and fireworks displays to celebrate the Fourth of July today.

The latest addition to the La Marque police car fleet is a flashy Lexus sport utility vehicle, complete with plush leather seating, wood paneling and a sunroof.

Sweet crude: Don't be surprised to see news camera crews Tuesday at A&A Machine & Fabrication, 3101 Texas Ave., in La Marque.

Six-foot-three-inch, 290-pound Lamarus Deon Clark asked his female companion to phone his mother as officers led him away in handcuffs Thursday.

Soaring oil and gas prices may be a fiscal drag for much of the nation, but in Houston, the self-styled energy capital of the world, they are feeding an economic surge.

A woman in La Marque has been charged with murder in her boyfriend's death. Police said Tuesday Cheryle Lett stabbed her boyfriend with a butcher knife last week.

Oil refineries and petrochemical plants line much of the coastline in Texas City, Tex.

City officials said scores of barbecue competitors and hundreds of runners were signed up for Funfest, which starts today.

City officials approved a zoning change for a 141-unit senior citizens' housing development near Mainland Preparatory Academy, citing a dire need for cheap, quality housing for an aging population.

A butcher knife that Craig Dwayne Curry kept in his kitchen is likely what his attacker used to kill him, police said.

Texas City hosts two races this month, and they are as different as, well, night and day.

The gospel: Playwright Bryan-Keyth Wilson said he plans to open Badoux's Cafe in La Marque, carrying on a family restaurant tradition.

Play time: Did you know that the world's children spend 5 billion hours a year playing with those little interlocking plastic Lego bricks? While that might be useless trivia, here's some buzz you can use: Lego ...

It's no secret that this summer's pain at the pump is cutting many a vacation budget to the bone.

A La Marque boy accused of starting a poolside brawl by punching a teenage female lifeguard was charged with the felony assaults of two public servants.

Checking in: Texas City officials have approved zoning that would allow businessman Bharat N. Patel to build a strip shopping center that would include a hotel and a bank at state Highway 146 and 36th Street.

It only takes about 45 seconds for Alejandro Velazquez to give a tour of his home.

Even if he lived, he wasn't supposed to walk again. But years afterward and every day since, 17-year-old Cody Brunt has proved the doctors wrong.

At least 100 high school seniors in Galveston County have failed the state's standardized exam and will not graduate this year.