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Early estimates indicate up to 2,000 gallons of oil may have spilled into surrounding waters when a barge carrying fuel broke free from a tugboat and slammed into a bridge near Galveston, Texas ...
The impact sent pieces of the bridge, which connects Galveston to Pelican Island, tumbling on top of the barge and shut down a stretch of waterway so crews could clean up the spill. The accident ...
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The main settlements on the bay include Tiki Island located at the mainland base of the Galveston Causeway, and Jamaica Beach on Galveston Island, just south of Galveston Island State Park. Jamaica Beach, a resort with a population of about 1,075 was found in 1957 on the site of a former Karankawa Indian burial ground. [3]
Edgar Culbertson was delivered to the Coast Guard, for her acceptance trials, in Key West, on February 6, 2020. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] She arrived at her homeport of Galveston , Texas on March 23, 2020. [ 7 ] Edgar Culbertson was commissioned in Galveston on June 11, 2020.
However, itemized estimates from 1901 based on assessments conducted by the Galveston News, the Galveston chamber of commerce, a relief committee, and multiple insurance companies indicated that the storm caused just over $17 million in damage throughout Galveston, including about $8.44 million to residential properties, $500,000 to churches ...
A Texas woman is charged with murder after police say she fatally shot her husband, lit his truck on fire and fled the scene in a kayak. That same day, deputies in Calhoun County responded to a ...
Southern Newspapers Inc. (SNI) is a publishing holding company headquartered in Houston, Texas. [1] The company was founded as Southern Newspapers, Inc., of Tennessee in 1967 by Carmage Walls . Its flagship paper, the Galveston County Daily News is the oldest newspaper in Texas, founded in 1842.