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	<title>Breaking News &#187; Galveston</title>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:27:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Texas jury convicts man in deadly discipline of his 2-year-old stepdaughter</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:25:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juan A. Lozano</dc:creator>
		
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Stepfather convicted in 2-year-old girl&#8217;s death

GALVESTON, Texas — A Texas jury has convicted a man for the 2007 beating death of his 2-year-old stepdaughter whose battered body was found in a container floating in Galveston Bay.
Jurors deliberated for 4 1/2 hours Friday before convicting Royce Clyde Zeigler II of capital murder. He receives an automatic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2 injured when chopper crashes on takeoff from oil platform in Gulf of Mexico near Galveston</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:50:24 +0000</pubDate>
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2 hurt in chopper crash in Gulf off Galveston

GALVESTON, Texas — Two people were injured when a helicopter crashed on takeoff from an offshore platform in the Gulf of Mexico.
A spokesman for Broussard, La.-based Rotorcraft Leasing Co., which serves the oil and gas industry, says the cause of the crash is being investigated.
Operations director Gerry [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Texas island city ravaged by Hurricane Ike marks anniversary with sunrise memorial service</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 14:59:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[GALVESTON, Texas — Mymi Freedman&#8217;s memories of Hurricane Ike&#8217;s immediate aftermath still linger, especially in one sense.

&#8220;The smell — everything was rotten,&#8221; she said Sunday, sitting in her garage with her husband Sergio and reflecting on the year that has passed since Ike damaged thousands of homes, including her own, on the Texas island city [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Texas island city ravaged by Hurricane Ike holding sunrise service to mark 1 year anniversary</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 08:11:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[GALVESTON, Texas — Hurricane Ike will be remembered for the destruction it wrought on the Texas island city of Galveston, but also for how it brought the community closer together, a preacher said Sunday at a sunrise memorial service to mark the storm&#8217;s anniversary.

About 100 people gathered at one of the city&#8217;s historic beach hotels [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Police: Standoff at Texas home ends with 3 dead; neighbors report hearing gunfire from home</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:24:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[GALVESTON, Texas — Police in Galveston, Texas say three people died in an apparent double-murder suicide after an eight-hour, overnight standoff with authorities.

Galveston Police Lt. D.J. Alvarez identified two victims as 51-year-old Joyce Bell Randle and her 21-year-old daughter, Jacqueline Evette Randle. The identity of the third person, a man, wasn&#8217;t immediately released.
Police in this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison kicks off campaign for Texas governor in her native Gulf Coast</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/us-sen-kay-bailey-hutchison-kicks-off-campaign-for-texas-governor-in-her-native-gulf-coast-141486/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 16:02:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Root</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[GALVESTON, Texas — The senior senator from Texas is taking aim at the state&#8217;s longest serving governor in a race expected to divide the Republican Party.

Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison returns to her native Gulf Coast on Monday morning for the start of a five-day, 19-city campaign announcement tour that will take her to nearly every [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Texas considers 55-mile &#8216;Ike Dike&#8217; to protect the coast from flooding</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/texas-considers-55-mile-ike-dike-to-protect-the-coast-from-flooding-109483/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 06:14:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juan A. Lozano</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[GALVESTON, Texas — It has been dubbed the &#8220;Ike Dike&#8221; — a 55-mile barrier, 17 feet high, that would be built along the Texas Gulf Coast to fend off the sort of devastating flooding inflicted by last year&#8217;s Hurricane Ike.

The grand idea for what would probably be the biggest seawall in the nation faces some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Galveston police baffled after 30 palm trees torched in 2 months; reward offered</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/galveston-police-baffled-after-30-palm-trees-torched-in-2-months-reward-offered-99024/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:41:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[GALVESTON, Texas — Galveston officials are investigating the torching of 30 palm trees in the last two months.

&#8220;What we&#8217;ve got on our hands, a serial tree arsonist, I&#8217;ve never seen before,&#8221; said Galveston Fire Marshal Gilbert Robinson. &#8220;I&#8217;ve talked to colleagues of mine, and that&#8217;s the first they&#8217;ve heard of setting palm trees on fire.&#8221;
Robinson [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Texas 16-year-old charged in accidental shooting death of her 12-year-old sister</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 04:16:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[GALVESTON, Texas — A 16-year-old Texas girl faces a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in what investigators say was the accidental shooting death of her 12-year-old sister.

Galveston police say the teenager was playing with a gun Sunday morning at home when it accidentally fired, striking her sister in her upper torso. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Galveston heads into 2009 hurricane season still rebuilding from Ike&#8217;s devastation</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 18:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[GALVESTON, Texas — Another hurricane season is the last thing Galveston wants to think about after last year&#8217;s devastation from Hurricane Ike.

&#8220;Hurricane season got here a lot quicker than I thought it would. I&#8217;m still busy working on my own house, trying to get back in there,&#8221; said Steve LeBlanc, manager of the island city [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fire destroys 60 condos at Galveston, Texas, beachfront development damaged by Hurricane Ike</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 10:56:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[GALVESTON, Texas — A fire has destroyed at least 60 condos in a Galveston, Texas, beachfront development that was being rebuilt after being damaged by Hurricane Ike.

Fire Chief Mike Vaerla Sr. says welding contractors working on the renovations accidentally started the fire at the Maravilla Condos on Wednesday afternoon.
Smoke was seen for miles as firefighters [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Galveston, Texas, beachfront condo development on fire; being rebuilt after Hurricane Ike</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 05:37:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[GALVESTON, Texas — Firefighters have brought under control a blaze at a waterfront condo development that was damaged last year when Hurricane Ike struck Galveston, Texas.

The fire started in a corner of the Maravilla Condos early Wednesday afternoon. It spread to dozens of the other 164 units. No one was reported hurt.
The development along the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>50 years of federal court oversight ends; judge rules Texas city&#8217;s schools are desegregated</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 01:25:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[GALVESTON, Texas — A federal judge has ruled that the Galveston public school system is desegregated, ending a civil rights lawsuit that was initiated in 1959.

U.S. District Judge Sim Lake of Houston issued the ruling Friday, saying the district&#8217;s history of compliance with a 1969 desegregation plan showed that the schools had fully integrated.
The school [...]]]></description>
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		<title>50 years of federal court oversight ends; judge rules Galveston schools are desegregated</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 23:16:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[GALVESTON, Texas — A federal judge in Texas has ruled that the Galveston school district is desegregated, ending a civil rights lawsuit initiated in 1959.

U.S. District Judge Sim Lake of Houston issued the ruling Friday.
School Superintendent Lynne Cleveland tells The Galveston County Daily News that she&#8217;s &#8220;just thrilled for the district.&#8221;
A desegregation plan the district [...]]]></description>
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