More than 40 women, and three guys, took part in the 4th annual Islander By Choice Galveston Island Beach Revue Bathing Beauties contest on the beach at 52nd Street in Galveston on Saturday. The event, held each Armed Forces weekend, serves as the kickoff to the summer season for the island.

Texas City police had already conducted the initial search for the siblings who went missing from their grandparents house in the 2500 block of 37th Avenue at 6:30 p.m.

UPDATE: SUNDAY (5/20):Alberto continues to spin in the Atlantic off the South Carolina coast as the 2012 Atlantic Hurricane Season gets off to an early start. The storm, with sustained winds of 50-mph, is moving slowly west-southwest at 6-mph, but is expected to re-curve to the northeast over the coming 24-48 hours. At 8 am, EDT, Alberto was centered near 31.7 N and 79.3 W, or about 95 miles south-southeast of Charleston,

Welcome to my Fatboy series. This is a chronicle of my journey after weight loss surgery in January at the University of Texas Medical Branch Center for Obesity and Metabolic Surgery.Mainland editor TJ Aulds once topped the scales at 421 pounds.After undergoing surgery, he hopes to drop to 280 pounds by the end of the year.

The self-serve, frozen yogurt race in the county continues to heat up, this time with Tutti Frutti planning a 1,200-square-foot shop in Victory Lakes Town Center at Interestate 45 and FM 646.

One of our regular readers sent a link to an Erica Jong poem about “People who live by the sea.” He thought a lot of our readers might like it.

We all knew it would come down to this. Friendswood and Santa Fe, two of the best baseball teams in Galveston County and perhaps the state, will face off this week in the Region III-4A quarterfinal.

Country acts are in abundance this weekend in Galveston County and leading the two stepping charge is League City’s 58th annual Texas Music Festival and Village Fair. The festival kicks off tonight and will feature nine bands in two days with Nashville’s Easton Corbin headlining Saturday night.

DICKINSON — The Daily News hosted a forum for Galveston County Sheriff candidates Wednesday night at the Barber Middle School auditorium, located at 5651 FM 517 East. The event was open to the public and streamed live to the Internet.

Island residents have a chance today and Wednesday to meet with the Galveston Housing Authority’s new executive director.