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Top 10 most-viewed photos
Here are the photos most frequently viewed by our readers.
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#1: Bugatti drives into wetlands
Wrecker driver Gilbert Harrison, with MCH Towing, pulls a Bugatti Veyron, one of the world’s fastest production cars, from the water by the north frontage road of Interstate 45 near Omega Bay on Wednesday afternoon.
November 13, 2009 - News | E-mail this photo
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#2: Woman uninjured in wreck with elk
Fur from an elk is still stuck in the mangled front end of Heydi Martinez’s Mitsubishi Endeavor on Thursday. She hit the elk on the feeder road of Interstate 45 on Tuesday night on her way home from work.
November 13, 2009 - Front | E-mail this photo
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#5: Marine gets new house
Gov. Rick Perry, left, congratulates Heather and Staff Sgt. Scott Worswick on Wednesday for the couple’s new home in League City. Bay Area Builders Association Support Our Troops Inc. built the house for Worswick, who was wounded in Afghanistan.
November 12, 2009 - Front | E-mail this photo
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#6: Bayou showing septic symptoms
Fishermen cast for bait fish Saturday in Dickinson Bayou at the boat ramp near the state Highway 3 bridge. Failing septic systems are blamed for high bacteria levels and low dissolved oxygen levels in the bayou.
November 15, 2009 - Front | E-mail this photo
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#7: Students get special look at ‘Peter, Wolf’
Ami Millender plays the Wolf in the Galveston Ballet’s performance of “Peter and the Wolf” on Wednesday at The Grand 1894 Opera House. The Galveston Ballet performed one act of the ballet for close to 900 students from Galveston schools.
November 13, 2009 - News | E-mail this photo
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#8: Be wary of bobcats
Experts are advising Galveston County residents to keep an eye out for bobcats in their neighborhoods. A Santa Fe resident last month reported a bobcat was killing her geese and chickens.
November 18, 2009 - Front | E-mail this photo
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#9: Dike tickets anger residents
Evangelos Koutougeras was ticketed for “intruding on premises” on the Texas City Dike while fishing earlier this month. He claims he was never on the 5-mile-long pier that has been closed since Hurricane Ike.
November 17, 2009 - Front | E-mail this photo
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#10: Crews hunt remains of Civil War ship
A diver enters the water during the salvage effort of the sunken Civil War Union gunboat, USS Westfield, in the Texas City Channel on Wednesday. The Westfield was intentionally destroyed after it grounded in the Texas City Channel in 1863.
November 19, 2009 - Front | E-mail this photo
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