GALVESTON, Texas, Sept. 12 (UPI) -- Nearly 1,000 prisoners on Galveston Island were not evacuated as Hurricane Ike bore down on the Texas Gulf Coast because of security concerns, officials say.

GALVESTON, Texas, Nov. 26 (UPI) -- The Texas mother and stepfather of a 2-year-old girl reported missing and found dead in plastic box in Galveston Bay have been arrested.

GALVESTON, Texas, Nov. 22 (UPI) -- Investigators in the case of Baby Grace, a young girl whose body was found in Texas, have asked for DNA tests to be conducted to possibly learn her identity.

GALVESTON, Texas, Nov. 3 (UPI) -- Police have released sketches of a child whose body was found in a plastic box washed up on an uninhabited island off Texas.

GALVESTON, Texas, Oct. 31 (UPI) -- Police in Galveston, Texas, were trying Wednesday to learn the identity of a female toddler whose body was found in a container that washed up from the bay.

GALVESTON, Texas, July 14 (UPI) -- A 14-year-old North Carolina girl survived a shark attack in waist-deep water near Galveston, Texas, but had her foot badly damaged.