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.
SPORTS
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…
SPORTS
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…
It all comes down to two local rivals playing it out for a shot at the Class 5A sweet 16 in boys basketball.
The Barbers Hill softball team stands unbeaten after four games following a 4-0 win over Kingwood Friday afternoon.
It was quite the Barbers Hill High School way to open up a collegiate softball season.
By Alan Dale
Clutch free throws send GCM to Saturday matchup against Crosby
In a season where the Goose Creek Memorial boys basketball team recorded its first ever playoff win, could it be that it may go hand-in-hand with its inaugural postseason run?
In a matchup between the two top teams in District 22-5A boys soccer, the host Goose Creek Memorial Patriots fell behind early and couldn’t recover in a 4-1 loss to first-place Friendswood.
Check off chapter one in the new Baytown softball championship battle for the Sterling Lady Rangers.
Second straight year Crosby on to Region 3 hoops quarterfinals
GCM's first boys playoff win, Crosby moves on, Eagles are eliminated
The baseball season is upon Goose Creek CISD high school fans as it saw its first pitch Monday as Robert E. Lee played host to Dayton.
Lady Eagles bounced in area
The first live ocelot I ever saw was in a cage outside a furniture store in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico in the ‘60s. It was the most beautiful cat I had ever seen.
Barbers Hill graduate and University of Texas women’s basketball standout Charli Collier teamed up with Roppolo’s Pizzeria owner Marc Roppolo to give back to the Austin community in the wake of the winter storm.
As anticipated, the boys and girls basketball playoff schedule was sent scurrying following the winter storm and its aftermath this week.
Big time potential was in store for the Barbers Hill baseball team a year ago before it had to shut everything down in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Things were going so well last spring for the Anahuac Panthers baseball team.
Updated times, dates, locations of games as announced
It’s hard to talk about Barbers Hill basketball without mentioning Gaven Barber.
The Baytown high school softball programs were all hoping to make notable progress last spring and it appeared that objective could be met.
The Barbers Hill Lady Eagles basketball team will face No. 1 Richmond Foster 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at Shadow Creek High School in a Class 5A area round playoff.
Maybe l should stick my hat around the door on a stick to see if anybody is going to take a shot at it since I’ve been saying Texas has the best winters in America. The forecast is now calling for a low temp of one degree above zero, Fahrenheit! Broken limbs and sometime entire trees litter …
Advance to play No. 1 Foster on Wednesday
First trip to postseason since 2015 could set tone for future
It’s playback time.
GCM wraps record-breaking regular season with win
Woody Raymond Walker, the first boys basketball coach at Sterling High School, passed away at the age of 90 Tuesday.
Three area girls basketball teams will begin their playoff journey this week and it starts tonight in Port Arthur when the Sterling Lady Rangers – making their first playoff appearance in six years – tip off against undefeated Beaumont United.
The Manvel Mavericks scored in the first minute of the match, added some insurance before halftime and used that start to gain pole position in a 3-0 victory against Robert E. Lee in Baytown Tuesday night.
With a chance to potentially improve its District 22-5A standing, the Sterling Lady Rangers basketball team dropped a 55-45 home decision against La Porte Saturday.
The Friendswood Mustangs used a 13-3 run to end the first quarter and used that momentum to hold on for a 55-42 victory Saturday in Baytown.
Every year about this time, some men and women go into something akin to mild depression. And please don’t think I’m belittling the post combat malady known as PTSD when I call it “After Hunting Season Downer”, or “AHSD”.
Barbers Hill drops contentious battle with unbeatens
Baytown schools stumble
It was a good day to be a senior and former prep football player in the Baytown-area.
The Super Bowl means something to a lot of people, but it doesn’t necessarily impact everyone equally.
The Goose Creek Memorial girls basketball team battled district heavyweights Manvel to a tight ballgame through the first half to see the Lady Mavericks pull away for a 54-40 win Thursday night.
Sterling splits two road games
Improved play, even during a pandemic, paid off for Goose Creek Memorial’s Taylor Kotlarz.
The Goose Creek Patriots are playoff-bound and clinched the postseason trip in dramatic fashion, winning 66-61 at La Porte Tuesday night.
Patriots ride big lead to rivalry win
Two big strikes before half pushes Lady Patriots past RSS
Crosby, Eagles win to jockey for playoff positions
The Goose Creek Memorial boys basketball team inched into a playoff spot and wrapped up the season sweep of district and city rivals Sterling with an 82-48 home win Saturday.
RSS in first playoff in six seasons
The Goose Creek Memorial Patriots used goals by Darwin Velasquez and Carlos Gonzalez to pull of the important, 2-1 road win against one of the challengers for the District 22-5A title.
In a match Goose Creek Memorial girls soccer coach Roman Huizar called a “good game,” the Lady Patriots still fell short in a 2-0 home defeat Friday against the Manvel Lady Mavericks.
The Sterling Rangers tennis team is off to a blazing start to the spring campaign after placing in nine of the 10 divisions at the Kim Enocksen Varsity Invitational in Humble on Friday.
I’ve never met Brandon Butler – at least, not that I recall. But we’ve travelled some of the same trails, including Missouri’s Current River. We’re brothers in a bond that comes from treasuring the outdoors and the precious memories of time spent there with family and friends. Or alone.
It appears the Goose Creek Memorial boys basketball team is embracing the concept of becoming a playoff team.
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