League City News Archives

As expected, there was a healthy turnout of people Friday morning at Mall of the Mainland to be some of the first in the area to receive the H1N1 vaccine.

League City police are pretty certain they know the man responsible for several car burglaries outside area day cares during the last month.

The state's plan to widen Interstate 45 between FM 1764 and FM 518 illustrates why we need to be thinking of new ways to deal with traffic congestion.

Business owners along Gulf Freeway could lose driveways, parking lots and green space if the state moves forward with plans to widen Interstate 45 between Texas City and League City, Texas Department of Transportation officials said.

In the past three weeks, cameras snapped photographs of 5,770 motorists running red lights in League City, mostly in the right-turn lanes at Interstate 45 and FM 518.

The debate over public housing in Galveston has turned ugly, with one side alleging racism and classism while the other characterizes public housing tenants as lazy or worse.

Storms pounded the Houston area Thursday morning, but they've moved out and cooler weather has started to move in, KPRC Local 2 reported.

It was refreshing to see a city council respond to public opposition the way Dickinson's did during a public hearing last week on the question of installing cameras at intersections to photograph cars running red lights.

Smart move? Is the vacant Lamar Elementary School in La Marque about to look smarter? After two years of wrangling over lease issues, real estate investor Bob Greig is the new owner of the school, built 71 years ago.

City officials knew for years about problems plaguing a water distribution plant but apparently never told the city council, according to memos and e-mails. The city bought the plant on state Highway 3 in Webster from the Gulf Coast Water Authority in 2000 for $175,000 and spent $1 million in 2005 trying to fix it.

A League City's man's luck ran out when he tried to evade a DPS trooper October 15 at approximately 12:20 p.m. Daniel Nuno, 18, was fleeing on a motorcycle northbound on W. Bay Area Blvd.

An officer at the scene of a wreck Thursday tackled a motorcyclist accused of driving on the sidewalk to get away from a state trooper, authorities said.

Michael Sadowski, 51, of League City, Texas, has been charged with receipt of child pornography and ordered held without bond pending further criminal proceeding following a hearing before U.S. Magistrate Judge Stephen Wm.

An Arkansas man accused of raping an 8-year-old girl and slitting her throat 19 years ago returned to Texas Wednesday night after waiving extradition.

City council members today will consider issuing more than $9 million in certificates of obligation - a form of debt that doesn't require voter approval - to repay developers who paid to expand Walker Street and install retention ponds in Victory Lakes.

Although red light cameras have become a hot topic in League City, Dickinson residents have a chance Tuesday to address city leaders on the matter, officials said.

Drivers accustomed to yielding - but not stopping - in the right turn lanes at Interstate 45 and FM 518 are getting a rude awakening.

More than 1,200 Harris County DWI convictions will be set aside and the cases revisited, prosecutors said Friday after the sentencing of Deetrice Wallace, a Department of Public Safety contractor who faked inspections of alcohol breath testing devices.

Mike and Pat Conwell just want to be able to walk or ride their bikes to the grocery store without risking their lives.

Some thieves are targeting local moms at daycare centers in League City. Galveston County Daily News is reporting thieves snatch purses from unlocked cars left when mothers run inside the daycare to drop off their children.

Tired of traffic? The city is seeking public input about how to alleviate traffic problems.

For the next year, residents along Amburn Road will have to get around construction cones, pick up their mail a block from their homes and remember that traffic is just one way.

Flower power: One of the island's oldest floral businesses is blooming again. Knapp Flower Shop, in its 84th year of business, has made a post-Ike return.