Police baffled by 30 burnt palm trees
GALVESTON, Texas (AP) - Galveston officials are investigating the torching of 30 palm trees in the last two months. What we've got on our hands, a serial tree arsonist, I've never seen before, said Galveston Fire Marshal Gilbert Robinson. I've talk...
1.4K - Jul. 4, 2009; scored 240.0

Corine Shepard Ransom
A Celebration of life memorial service will be held for Corine Shepard Ranson, 65, of Albany, at 2 p.m. Tuesday, July 14, at Willamette Community Church, 420 Third Ave. S.E., Albany. Corine was born Oct. 6, 1943, in Galveston, Texas, to L. A. "Shep" ...
2.5K - Jul. 2, 2009; scored 103.0

Ike's memories weigh on Galveston
GALVESTON, Texas Another hurricane season is the last thing Galveston wants to think about after last year s devastation from Hurricane Ike. Hurricane season got here a lot quicker than I thought it would. I m still busy working on my own house, tr...
4.2K - Jun. 5, 2009; scored 1000.0

Adios, Texas
It was 20 years ago today that Texas seceded from the United States. At the time, many Texans thought things would get better if they jumped ship. And they did get better - for the USA. When NASA moved its space center from Houston to Cape Canaveral,...
2.9K - May. 26, 2009; scored 103.0

Surfin' USA
From sea to shining sea, two surfing buddies found waves wherever they went. Stefan Hunt and Jonno Durrant hung 10 on a prodigious pile of sugar beets in Idaho, caught swells behind a boat in an alligator-infested Mississippi swamp and were towed b...
7.1K - Jan. 31, 2009; scored 103.0

Buried box yields Texas treasures after hurricane
GALVESTON, Texas (AP) A contractor helping clear debris from Hurricane Ike is looking for the owner of an ammunition box he found buried in sand that contained keepsakes, including an 1863 Confederate $50 bill, war medals and diamond earri...
1.5K - Jan. 22, 2009; scored 240.0