Harris County Sheriff’s Office homicide investigators arrested and charged Houston resident Jerry Fain, 35, with the murder of his girlfriend, April Cobb, in Channelview. About 6:30 a.m. Wednesday, deputies responded to a report of a death at 15425 North Brentwood.
The Channelview Independent School District Education Scholarship Foundation’s 16th annual B.H. Hamblen Golf Tournament was a success once again.
The Robert E. Lee Lady Ganders danced and pranced around so much following every ace and kill that they could have been mistaken for dancers and not volleyballers.
Two men were found dead inside a building at 16418 Market Street in Channelview about 11 p.m. Thursday, according to the Harris County Sheriff’s Office.
Harris County’s lawsuit against the companies responsible for cleaning up environmental contamination to the San Jacinto River just north of the Interstate 10 bridge will continue, as a federal appeals court ruled that the county can continue using outside attorneys on the case.
Baytown Police Department Special Operations detectives have filed charges against three suspects they think are responsible for five robberies in Baytown and Harris County.
A 19-year-old man has been charged with aggravated assault after a Channelview shooting early Tuesday morning that left two women injured, one seriously.
The annual Baytown Special Rodeo for special needs youngsters, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sept. 14, is moving to a new location this year.
The annual Baytown Special Rodeo for special needs youngsters, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sept. 14, is moving to a new location this year.
The Texas Department of Public Safety will increase DWI patrols for a 10-day period that includes the July 4 holiday.
The Harris County Sheriff’s Office is seeking the public’s assistance in finding a Channelview man who has been missing since May 4.
The Houston-Galveston Area Council said its Regional DWI Task Force, which consists of 14 law enforcement agencies throughout the Houston-Galveston area, will be operating throughout Memorial Day weekend to cut down on driving while intoxicated.
Former Houston Oilers’ quarterback Dan Pastorini, former Astros’ pitcher Larry Dierker and KHOU’s meteorologist Chita Johnson are a few of the many celebrities who will be playing in the 11th Annual Bayou Bowl Celebrity Golf Tournament.
The boys of summer are back.
By BINK GRIMES
NORTH SABINE: Trout are fair to good on the Louisiana shoreline on topwaters and Corkies. Flounder are fair on jigs tipped with shrimp around marsh drains.
Recently at the North Channel Chamber of Commerce annual banquet, Bates Collision Centers received the 2012 Community Service Award. Pictured from left to right are Cory Stover, Lori Tadlock, Chamber President Dr. Charles Grant, Leila Bates and Lee Bates.
The Houston Rockets are getting dangerously close to clinching a playoff spot for the first time since 2009.
HUTCHINSON, Kan. – Lee College’s Cinderella slipper finally fell off Tuesday night.
Patience – a trait tough to find these days. We want it now, not a minute later. We text and want an answer in 30 seconds. We e-mail and expect a reply, quickly.
The Baytown Sun would like to encourage all outdoorsmen to turn in hunting and fishing pictures to the sports department.
NORTH SABINE: Trout are fair to good in the river on live shad. Redfish are good in the marsh on small topwaters and Stanley Ribbits. Flounder are good on jigs tipped with shrimp.
Lee College star forward Trahson Burrell didn’t hesitate when asked where he learned to play basketball.
I did not know Amulek Stone. But after talking with several coaches, and listening to the passion in their voice as they described the young man, I feel like I do. And for that, I feel blessed.
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On occasion, losing a ball game can be the best thing that happens to a team. Just ask the squad from Sterling, which found itself on the short end of a Friday morning matchup, then used that loss as motivation to pound Channelview 7-4 in a night contest in the Gary Herrington Invitational T…
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My starched Texas flag normally takes a beating from sustained 20-knot winds this time of year. The same could be said for Texas bays, raked and rolled at times by the same ardent gales. It’s a fact of life along the coast – the wind blows in late winter and early spring.
N. SABINE: Trout and redfish are fair while drifting mud and shell. Sheepshead are fair to good around the rocks.
Dreary, wet, February chill is not what most salts consider “good fishing weather.” Then again, “most” anglers don’t fish until the water warms to 72 degrees and suntan lotion is needed.
NORTH SABINE: Trout and redfish are fair while drifting mud and shell. Waders have taken better trout on the Louisiana shoreline in the afternoon on slow-sinking plugs.
The feel of a sensitive piece of graphite as an angry speckled trout crushes a topwater is a normal occurrence once spring rolls around. We plugging aficionados try to rush winter, consistently checking water temperatures during periods of mild weather with hopes of at least a few days of r…
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Barbers Hill shortstop Cameron Cauley and head coach David Denny earned the Texas Sports Writers Association Class 5A Player and Coach of the Year awards this week.
MLB career begins in Florida A-league
Former Barbers Hill trackster to pursuit doctoral goals at UT
The Wayne Gray Sports Complex was one of a number of sites to play host to the PONY International World Series of softball this weekend and some area teams battled distractions and the heat to come away with plenty of lessons learned.
With an intent of advancing the development of the overall athletic programs within Goose Creek CISD, what better way to kick things off with an improved look at the junior school level.
Emergency reductions in spotted seatrout bag limits in Laguna Madre that were effective April 1- July 29 were extended last week by Parks and Wildlife. The reductions now extend until Sept. 27.
Softball clubs make most at tourney
Baytown’s own Sabrina Munguia has found a way to bounce back from the year of COVID-19.
Shortstop reports to Arizona rookie league next week
The Sterling Lady Rangers volleyball team has claimed recognition of some true distinction.
Event set at multiple sites including Baytown
HOUSTON — Yordan Alvarez snapped an 0-for-22 slump with at two-run homer to help the Houston Astros to a 4-3 win over the Cleveland Indians on Monday night.
The University of Arkansas at Little Rock swimming and diving team has officially added nine swimmers for the 2021-22 season, inlcuding 2018 Barbers Hill High School graduate Lauren Gray.
Twenty years ago, I did something embarrassing.
Wearing blue in support of their winning teams, Barbers Hill fans lined up down Eagle Drive cheering on their hometown champions after having to wait almost a month due to bad weather.
Kennedy Tristan expects to come back bigger and better than ever.
To celebrate the wins of both the Barbers Hill High School baseball and softball teams, the City of Mont Belvieu and Barbers Hill ISD are collaborating for a “Parade of Champions” down Eagle Drive tonight.
Cameron Cauley has some decisions to make and either way no one would fault him with having a big grin on his face when he points himself in his next direction.
With the books closing on the 2020-21 sports season – one that will be forever defined as the year of COVID-19, social distancing and contact tracing – coaches took time out to reflect on some of its bigger moments.
When my 8-year-old granddaughter visits from Tennessee, she often ventures into my man-cave while I’m working to tell me about her latest adventures. Yesterday, it was about how much our latest dog had grown since last summer when she carried him around everywhere. She could almost ride him, now.
How can anyone deny dominance?
Highlands own Nick Wade learned you can go home again – sort of – or at least pretty close to it.
A number of teams are using the summer to improve their standing from the previous campaign to ready themselves for the upcoming sports calendar.
‘It’s not every day you make school history’
A number of teams are using the summer to improve their standing from the previous campaign to ready themselves for the upcoming sports calendar.
Nicholas Wade has been tabbed as the new head coach for the Lee College men’s basketball team as well as the new athletic director for the college.
It couldn’t have been a better day for the Texas Bud Heat Wave 5-mile and Michelob Ultra 5K runs in Mont Belvieu on 4th of July.
By Alan Dale
A hot-barrel hunt usually means there are so many birds flying that participants shoot rapidly and their shotgun barrels become too hot to touch. People talking about Argentine dove hunting relate hot barreled hunt tales.
‘For a minute, we were Baytown’s team’
‘Without a doubt it was a fantastic showing’
State title run no Cinderella story
Finishes season with 4-5 run in Las Vegas
Mississippi State baseball claims World Series title
Review of 2021 squads begins
New Goose Creek Memorial baseball coach George Banda doesn’t mince words when he speaks about expectations for a program he leads.
The Texas Association of Basketball Coaches Showcase in Duncanville played host to a number of squads trying to show off their talents and also get plenty of run in as they begin to prepare for the newest season.
By Alan Dale
The first fish I caught were two little perch that bit on small pieces of earthworms or bits of bread squeezed into little balls. We were at Grandmother Jefferson’s house on the Guadalupe River, west of Sequin. I was about eight or nine. My tackle was a bamboo pole with braided cotton line, …
An old adage essentially says that teams are made in the offseason.
When a number of area coaches were asked who among them performed the best job in 2020-21, many pointed toward both of Barbers Hill’s Aaron Fuller and David Denny for their accomplishments in leading teams to Class 5A softball and baseball titles earlier this month.
Lady Rangers beat BH teams for summer title
COVID-19 has killed people, put people on the unemployment line, created fears real or imagined and disrupted our planet’s way of life.
Little League all-star play is in full throttle and titles are being decided or still played for as summer heats up.
Magazine: Crosby expected to win district crown
Volleyball bracket play wraps tonight
Running Alliance Sport and sponsors Wismer Distributing Company and the City of Mont Belvieu present the Texas Heat Bud Wave, with a course anchored at Wismer’s Budweiser facility in Mont Belvieu. The 2021 Texas Bud Heat Wave returns to secure its place as maybe the hottest, and definitely i…
One August, I heard a man say he was going to slug the next person who asked, “Is it hot enuf fer ya?”
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