PAPD Arrests Man From Orange
On September 10, 2019 at 4:48 p.m. officers with the Port Arthur Police Department were dispatched to 4023 Brinkman Drive in reference to a disturbance. Upon arrival, officers were informed that a 7...
View ArticleTax Rate Set, CM Starts Oct. 1
Mike Kunst has a contract to become Orange city manager and will start on October 1. The city council approved his contract Tuesday. His beginning annual salary will be $150,000 and include $6,000 a...
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Trailer Stolen Wednesday
This trailer was stolen from Frey’s Nursery located at 2214 Lutcher Drive. The theft occurred in the early morning hours of Sept. 11. If anyone has any information about the trailer or suspects...
View ArticleSon Threatens To Kill Mom
A 20-year-old was arrested Tuesday for aggravated assault in connection with threatening to kill his mother and using a knife to stab the door to the bedroom where she had barricaded herself. The...
View ArticleEyes on the Tropics
(Wednesday, 6pm) -The National Weather Service in Lake Charles is monitoring an active tropical pattern. A tropical wave stretches across eastern Cuba and the Bahamas. NHC gives this system a medium...
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Commissioners Put Off Raise
The members of the Commissioners Court could get a pay raise, but they will have to be re-elected first. The Court met Wednesday morning and acted on a motion made by Commissioner Robert Viator. On...
View ArticleBring Out The Big Scissors
They’ve been in the building a few weeks but Thursday the City of Orange made it official with a ribbon cutting on the new location of City Hall on 16th Street. The building was the former First...
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Crimestoppers Looking For Two of Interest
On Saturday, September 7 a home on Carpenter Road in Victory Gardens (off Hwy 87, between BC and Orange) was burglarized. A neighbor spoke to two individuals who said they worked for the home owner...
View ArticleBank Robber To Serve 25 Years
A man from Orange agreed to spend 25 years in state prison after pleading guilty to the robbery of the Wells Fargo Bank in January. 43-year-old James I. Spikes made the plea Friday in the 163rd...
View ArticleGuillory Receives 60 Years
A 53-year-old man has been sentenced to 60 years in prison for the 2016 stabbing death of another man. 128th State District Judge Courtney Arkeen Friday gave the punishment to Felix Guillory. A jury...
View ArticleWalker Exits Race
Assistant District Attorney Krispen Walker has decided not to run for the position of 163rd state district judge. She announced earlier this year she was going to run in the Republican primary for the...
View ArticlePHPD Looking For Thieves
The Pinehurst Police Department is seeking the public’s help in identifying burglary suspects. On Sept. 4, 2019 at approximately 4:37a.m. 2 black males driving a late model gray or silver Dodge...
View ArticleBicyclist Hit On Sunset
A bicyclist was injured early Sunday morning by a hit-and-run driver on Sunset Drive. The bicyclist was 40-year-old Robert Stevens of Orange and he was taken by Acadian Ambulance to St. Elizabeth...
View ArticleNewton Co. Sheriffs Report
by Sheriff Billy Rowles We stayed bowed up all week. Nothing too serious. Let’s see what it was all about. We received a report of a stolen backhoe out of Beaumont. We got it recovered down in the...
View ArticleBridge Opening Still On Hold
The Texas Department of Transportation says the opening of the Roundbunch bridge has been pushed to the end of October. Sarah Dupre of TxDOT says that engineers of the project say that some mechanical...
View ArticlePublic Comment Tuesday 6pm
People will have another chance to comment on the city of Orange’s proposed tax rate Tuesday at 6 p.m. The City Council will have another public hearing on the tax rate in the council chamber next to...
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Plane Parachute Saves Two
Two people were rescued Saturday night from a swampy, wooded area in Louisiana after the Cirrus airplane they were flying made an emergency parachute landing. Kim Myers with the Calcasieu Parish...
View ArticleSmith Sentenced To 36 Years
The driver who killed a toddler and a Good Samaritan in a 2018 crash pleaded guilty Monday to two counts of manslaughter and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. His punishment will be two stacked...
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Tropical Depression In Gulf
The National Hurricane Center believes the system off the Texas coast south of Freeport is now a tropical depression with sustained winds of 35 mph. Tropical Depression 11 is very close to the coast...
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Tropical Storm Makes Landfall
Update: Tuesday, 1:30 PM – Sep 17 2019 …TROPICAL STORM IMELDA MAKES LANDFALL NEAR FREEPORT TEXAS… …HEAVY RAINFALL AND THREAT OF FLASH FLOODING WILL SPREAD INLAND… NOAA Doppler radar data and surface...
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