Commissioners Taking Applications
The Commissioners Court discussed Tuesday appointing a replacement for Justice of the Peace Precinct 1 David Peck who is retiring in January. The first action as stipulated by Assistant County...
View ArticleOC Sheriffs Calls Nov. 14-21
Orange County Sheriff’s Office Calls November November 14-21 Burglary of a motor vehicle, 7:27 a.m. November 14, 1900 block Concord Drive in Vidor. Theft, 4:19 p.m. November 14, 15774 Interstate 10 in...
View ArticleThanksgiving Closures
Pinehurst city employees will get a head start on a long Thanksgiving holiday. City offices there will close at 3 p.m. Wednesday. Other local government offices will close at 5 p.m. Wednesday. Orange...
View ArticleArrest Made In Armed Robbery
On November 20, 2016 Orange Police Department officers investigated the Aggravated Robbery of Crawdads, 4080 IH-10. During the robbery a black male used a handgun to threaten the store employee and...
View ArticleHistorical Preservation To Meet
The Orange Historical Preservation Commission on Tuesday will review requests to demolish two houses, including one that the city staff says “could be repaired economically.” The houses are at 1212...
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Weather Not Great On Monday
The National Weather Service in Lake Charles is expecting a windy day on Monday, as a cold front approaches the region. Wind gusts could be in the 30 to 35 mph range. In addition, scattered showers and...
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House Burns On Bancroft
Saturday night Orange firefighters battled a blaze at 837 Bancroft which is just off Border Street. No one was living at the home at the time of the fire. Firefighters were called out around 9pm. The...
View ArticleIt’s Beginning To Look A lot Like Christmas
Monday morning the City of Orange began raising a tall Christmas tree on the lawn of city hall that will later include new displays around the tree. The angel lights are already on the light poles...
View ArticleSix Apply For JP Job
Seven persons submitted resumes to serve as the next Justice of the Peace in Precinct 1 by Monday’s deadline. One was eliminated because the person did not meet the requirement according to the Texas...
View ArticleOrange Weekend Police Reports
A 21-year-old woman originally arrested for public intoxication Friday night faces additional charges for resisting arrest with Orange police and later head-butting an Orange County corrections...
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Accident Claims BC Resident
Bridge City Police report that Monday morning around 9am, an accident occurred in the 2100 block of Texas Ave. when a 4 door Mercury pulled in front of a small Ford pick up. The truck struck the...
View ArticleMan Arrested For Shaking Baby
A 28-year-old man is in the Orange County Jail facing life in prison for seriously injuring his 2 1/2 month-old son by violent shaking. The baby had to be taken by medical helicopter to Memorial...
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LCM Bus In Accident Monday
A Little Cypress-Mauriceville school bus carrying high school students was involved in a one vehicle accident Monday afternoon. No one on the bus was injured. Most students were moved to a second bus...
View ArticleChristmas Parade Postponed
The Kiwanis Club has announced that the annual Orange Christmas Parade scheduled for Friday, has been postponed to Friday, Dec. 9 at 6pm. The post Christmas Parade Postponed appeared first on KOGT.
View ArticleStagner Appointed J.P. Prec. 1
A new Justice of the Peace was appointed for Precinct 1 Tuesday by the Commissioners Court. Hershel Stagner, Jr. was unanimously approved by the Court out of the seven persons who submitted resumes to...
View ArticleFamily Wins Appeal Vs. Orange County
The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Tuesday upheld a Beaumont jury’s decision to make Orange County pay for damages to the family of a jail inmate who died in custody. The total judgment against...
View ArticlePreservation Group In Catch 22
The chair of the Orange Historic Preservation Commission Tuesday night said the group had a ‘Catch 22’ to decide about a house that is nearly a century old. Ben Meadows questioned whether the...
View ArticleBridge City Christmas Parade Postponed
The Bridge City Chamber of Commerce has postponed its Christmas Light Parade until Saturday, December 10th at 6:00 p.m. due to potential bad weather. All toys that are being donated as entry fees need...
View ArticleWarren Agrees To 45 years In Prison
A 42-year-old man inside a drug house where a home invasion shoot-out occurred two years ago pleaded guilty Wednesday to being engaged in organized crime. Desrick V. Warren of Orange agreed to the...
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