Sweeny News

With a partner's hand resting on his shoulder, Robin Wofford slowly approached a small blaze with an extinguisher, pulled the pin and sprayed the white powder to put it out.

As school districts throughout Brazoria County celebrate Public Schools Week with open houses and other activities, officials are looking toward the future with hope.

My 'Miscellaneous County History' files contain a hodgepodge of clippings and notes culled from newspapers, magazines, books, letters, journals and even scratchy scraps of paper with information gleaned from telephone calls.

Candidates planning to file for municipal, school and other May 8 races must do so by close of business Monday, election officials said.

Though TAKS might be a dirty word to many parents and educators, for now it's still the final word in school-district ratings.

A 17-year-old Alvin High School student died this weekend after wrecking his pickup near a curve notorious for accidents, officials said.

Students sat quietly as they listened to the opening notes of a once-popular TV show from the 1980s.

Incumbent Sherry Kersh is facing business owner Tommy Alexander Jr. for the Justice of the Peace Precinct 4, Place 2 position this year in the Republican primary.

There's something about the Sweeny Police Station that simply attracts bicycles, Police Chief Gary Stroud said.

Two of the contestants from "The Biggest Loser" season 9 joined Mike Rogers and Mitch Carr this morning to talk about the show and what they are doing in Dallas.

Three Houston men are in custody on robbery charges after police said they handcuffed and beat an Old Ocean convenience store clerk and left the store with about $20,000. The three men were arrested minutes after the robbery Tuesday night when they were stopped by a West Columbia police officer for speeding along Brazos Avenue.

A woman in her early 90s was found dead in her home after firefighters responded to a fire Monday evening.

An issue with a jury charge led a Brazoria County visiting judge to delay closing arguments Tuesday in the trial of a man accused of escaping from the Stringfellow prison unit.

When Bob Dillman ran for city council and mayor in Alvin, he made sure he had the approval of friends and family before staking his political signs on their property.

Anyone in birth family. I am a female who was born February 16, 1976 in Sweeny, Texas, which is in Brazoria County.

A 6-month-old boy died Wednesday morning after a car struck his mother's vehicle on CR 316 about three-tenths of mile north of FM 2611, law enforcement officials said.

Sweeny ISD Superintendent Randy Miksch hopes today he'll know who will be the Bulldogs' next head football coach and director of athletics.

Within seconds, smoke begins to blanket the room and cloud visibility. The safest way to get out of the home is to stay low while trying to find an exit.

Last week when I was in the drugstore to get my H1N1 shot, one of the customers came up and asked if I intended to drive south this year to meet spring.

To see your home and all your possessions in ashes must be beyond horrible. To have a child die in the tragedy has to cause an unspeakable pain.