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The accident happened shortly before 10 a.m. after a tugboat operator pushing two barges lost control of them, said David Flores, a bridge superintendent with the Galveston County Navigation District.
Carnival Cruise Line passengers were injured in an automobile accident at the Port of Galveston in Texas over the weekend.. Four pedestrians were struck by a private vehicle at Cruise Terminal 28 ...
An Extreme Cold Watch is in effect for much of southeastern Texas, including Houston and Galveston for Tuesday night for lows dropping into the teens and wind chills dropping as low as 7-18 degrees.
The Texas Highway Patrol is a division of the Texas Department of Public Safety and is the largest state-level law enforcement agency in the U.S. state of Texas.The patrol's primary duties are enforcement of state traffic laws and commercial vehicle regulation, but it is a fully empowered police agency with authority to enforce criminal law anywhere in the state.
USCGC Blackthorn (WLB-391) was a 180-foot (55 m) seagoing buoy tender (WLB) which sank in 1980 in a collision near the Tampa Bay Sunshine Skyway Bridge, resulting in 23 crew member fatalities.
Her body was later found in Galveston Bay, Texas. [2] The level of decomposition meant that police were unable to immediately identify the remains and began a nationwide effort to learn the child's name. [2] Riley Ann's identity was confirmed when her paternal grandmother, Sheryl Sawyers, notified police after seeing a composite sketch.
The 1947 Texas City disaster was an industrial accident that occurred on April 16, 1947, in the port of Texas City, Texas, United States, located in Galveston Bay.It was the deadliest industrial accident in U.S. history and one of history's largest non-nuclear explosions.
The weather service rated a vortex that spun on the ground for nearly 9 miles in Brazoria County as a preliminary EF2, indicating it was "strong," with sustained winds of at least 111 mph.