The 1877 Tall Ship Elissa embarked on its three-month voyage from Galveston to New York for Sail4th, an event celebrating America's 250th anniversary.
The search covered more than 586 square miles before the Coast Guard called off looking for the lost cruise passenger.
The greatest natural disaster in our country's history is the Great Galveston Storm of 1900, a Category 4 hurricane that made landfall on Galveston Island 117 years ago.
Police say a Bacliff man posed as a popular teenage celebrity online, attempting to get underage girls to send him nude pictures of themselves.
Texas health officials are warning beachgoers that higher levels of bacteria have been found at multiple beaches in the Galveston area in the Gulf of Mexico.