Middle Finger Turns Into Arrest
A man police wanted to stop because of a complaint of him “shooting the finger” at someone Sunday night led officers on a high-speed chase on the west end of Orange. A 25-year-old man now faces a state...
View ArticleGrant For Meals On Wheels
A very short meeting of Commissioners Court was conducted Monday morning. The change in meeting days from Tuesday to Monday was to allow two Commissioners to attend training later this week....
View ArticleNothing New On Murder, Robbery
Orange Detective Captain Robert Enmon said the gunman who robbed the Orange Cinema Saturday afternoon was wearing a floppy hat with a marijuana leaf on the front and the word “Kush” on the back. The...
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Snake Road Claims Truck
A 42-year-old woman was taken to a Beaumont hospital Friday night after driving her pickup truck into a deep gully off 29th Street, or “Snake Road,” in Pinehurst. Police Chief Fred Hanauer said the...
View ArticleBig Screen Robbery Suspects (video)
If you can identify the male or female in this video, please contact the Orange Police Department Detective Division at 409-883-1095. This video is of two people of interest in an aggravated robbery...
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BCISD Thief Sought
On Sept. 25 at 11:13 p.m. a male white suspect driving a late model Chevrolet 2500 4 door truck, entered the BCISD Service Center 1025 W. Roundbunch. Over the next three hours, the suspect was seen on...
View ArticleOC Sheriffs Calls Sept. 26-Oct. 3
Orange County Sheriff Calls September 26-October 3 Disturbance, 8:02 a.m. September 26, 1000 block FM 105 in Vidor. Theft of wallet, 8:47 a.m. September 26, 4800 block Caribou Drive in Orangefield....
View ArticleOC Restaurant Reports
Some stores and restaurants inspected during the last part of September had problems with mold in ice machines and slush machines. Also, a dead mouse was found at one. But otherwise, the food...
View ArticleLogs Have New Home
The Texas Department of Transportation, which operates the state travel information centers, will be getting six logs that were part of the original 1936 tourist bureau in Orange. Orange City Council...
View ArticleVoter Registration Deadline Oct. 11
Tuesday is last day to register to vote As headlines in bold print report the latest poll numbers and TVs blare talking heads analyzing what he said and she said, Americans are inundated with the 2016...
View ArticleDrive-Thru Rage At Taco Bell
On September 18, 2016 at about 12:50 am, officers with the Orange Police Department took a report of deadly conduct. In this case, a white male suspect driving a white Ford pickup truck was in the Taco...
View ArticleStolen Merchandise Returned
An Orange resident had the good news before he learned the bad news. His trailer with a 24″ inch Dixie Chopper was stolen from his house Tuesday night. But Orange County deputies found them before the...
View ArticleAfter Further Review…
A downtown Orange landmark is getting its second new look. The Capistrano, which opened in 1941 on Green Avenue, was designed in a Spanish mission style with stucco. Early in the summer the new owner...
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Simon, 89, Gets Diploma From Orangefield
Abner Simon’s visited the Cormier Museum during his whirlwind tour of Orangefield Abner Simon grew up in Orangefield and played football for the Bobcats, but he never graduated. World War II got in the...
View ArticleBody Found Near I-10
Orange Police say the body of a 29 year female from Lousiana was found in a ditch Saturday morning on the south side of the I-10 Service Rd. just east of 23rd Street. Not many details as detectives...
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Two House Fires Reported
Bridge City firefighters responded to a fire Sunday at 241 Joel Street which is off of West Roundbunch, about 2.5 miles from Texas Ave. The fire was believed to have started in the back of the house....
View ArticleAuto Pedestrian Accident Results In Death
At approximately 10pm Sunday, Orange Police, Fire and Acadian Ambulance were called to the I-10 service road in front of Tractor Supply after they received a call from someone saying a man had walked...
View ArticleWoman Identified By Police
On Saturday, October 8, 2016 at 10:55 am, officers with the City of Orange Police Department responded to the 2400 blk of S. Lutcher in reference to a body in the ditch. Officers arrived and...
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Orange Council Joins Vidor In Not Supporting Loop
Vidor Mayor Robert Viator successfully urged the Orange City Council to oppose the county spending money on building a highway called “The Vidor Loop.” Viator said citizens in cities pay full county...
View ArticleOCC Puts 299 Loop On Approval List
The Commissioners Court voted unanimously Tuesday to advance the proposed Loop 299 project from the alternate list to the approval list with the Texas Highway Commission. Commissioner Jody Crump...
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