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.

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.

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.

For 36 years, Bob Renfroe was the band director at Texas City High School. His era set the standard by which all bands at the high school are measured. On Saturday he was honored by having the band hall named for him. He also got together several of his former students one last time for a tribute performance.

A tradition that began thanks to the mis-print of a phone number in 1955, was setting records Saturday as volunteers at NORAD tracked the progress of Santa.

The local chapter of the Anti-Defamation League says that Rep. Larry Taylor, R-Friendswood, sent an apology for using the term "Jew them down," during a Texas windstorm hearing on Thursday.

The movie "Texas Killing Fields," which was inspired by the two dozen unsolved murders and missing women cases in Galveston County, was released to the public on Friday. But finding it in your local theater will be tough.

They call it the Golf Classic, but the Texas City-La Marque Chamber of Commerce’s annual golf tournament is more than an opportunity to knock a little white ball around 18 holes.

Galveston County Commissioners approved redistricting maps Tuesday for county commissioner precincts and for justices of the peace and constables. The maps will need to meet with approval of the U.S. Justice Department and would not take effect until January 2012.

A train derailed early Friday morning in the middle of Hitchcock, shutting down roads and, “making a big mess,” the police chief said. We were the first to report it and to have photos and video from the scene.

Jennifer Rogers and Bonnie Lem, the owners of the Bay Area website YourTownTV.com, came up with a fun way to promote the area. They gathered a bunch of folks for a lip dub to Kool and the Gang's hit "Ladies' Night."