GALVESTON, TX (KTRK) -- One year ago Diane and Jesse Jacobs lost their son. "He was our life. He was our only child. He was our life," said Diane Jacobs, Jesse Jacob's mother. Jesse Jacobs, 32, went ...

GALVESTON, TX (KTRK) -- Jesse Jacobs didn't want to go to jail, but when the 32-year-old pleaded guilty to a DWI earlier this year, he knew he would be spending some time behind bars. On March 6, ...

GALVESTON, Texas – A former corrections officer with the Galveston County Sheriff’s Office has been indicted by a grand jury in connection with the death of an inmate at the county jail last year.

A former jailer at the Galveston County Jail has been charged in the 2024 death of an inmate. Sklyer Ray Chapman was indicted by a grand jury on Tuesday on a charge of criminally negligent homicide.

People celebrating Fourth of July in Galveston County may see sheriff's deputies on horseback this week. The Galveston County Sheriff’s Office is reintroducing a mounted patrol unit this summer, with ...