Orange Zoning Board Meets Tuesday
The Orange Zoning Board of Adjustments will meet Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. to decide on whether to give special exceptions to allow a bed and breakfast on Tenth Street and a yard for wrecked vehicles on...
View ArticleOrange Police Reports
A 59-year-old Mauriceville woman suffered minor injuries Friday afternoon when she lost control of the car she driving and it hit a tree line. Orange police said the wet roadway cause the woman to lose...
View ArticleOC Sheriffs Office Calls Feb. 13-20
Orange County Sheriff Calls February 13-20 Sexual assault, 2:47 a.m. February 13. Deputies dispatched to St. Elizabeth Hospital in Beaumont concerning an assault at 1495 Freeway Boulevard in Rose City....
View ArticlePower Trip Tuesday Morning
A widespread electrical outage across Orange early Tuesday morning was caused by a transmission line tripping offline, according to Entergy spokesman Andrew Schonert. The outage lasted only a few...
View ArticleMan May Get New Trial
A Beaumont man convicted of murder for a collision that killed a Vidor teenager in three years ago might get a new trial after a Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ruling. The court ruled last week that...
View ArticleCommissioners Rescind Resolution
After over 30 minutes of citizens’ comments concerning the fleeting of barges near the Bessie Heights Marsh on the Neches River, the Commissioners Court approved Tuesday rescinding its resolution of...
View ArticleBC Resident Asks To Be Deannexed
No action was taken Tuesday by the City Council on a request by a resident in Bridge City to have his property de-annexed from the city. Donny Huebner lives in the one hundred block of Texas Avenue...
View ArticleMan Dies In Accident On Hwy. 62
On Wednesday, Feb. 22 at 6:34 PM, Officers of the Orange Police Department were dispatched to the 8400 block of N. Hwy 62 in reference to a traffic accident with injuries involving a motorcycle and a...
View ArticleAccident Victim Identified
Orange police said the man who died in the motorcycle collision Wednesday evening Jeffrey Norton of Port Arthur. He would have turned 50 on Friday. Detective Captain Robert Enmon said the driver of the...
View ArticleStudent Arrested For Assault
Orange police Wednesday morning arrested a student at Little Cypress Intermediate School for aggravated assault on a public servant in connection with injuring principal Michael Ridout. The school on...
View ArticleGLO Confirms Lease For Barges
The General Land Office (GLO) confirmed Wednesday that Savage Inland Marine has received a lease for fleeting its barges on the Neches River near the Bessie Heights Marsh. The lease will allow Savage...
View ArticleAuto-Pedestrian Accident Injures One
The Texas Department of Public Safety is investigating an auto-pedestrian crash in Vidor from Wednesday night. Sergeant Stephanie Davis with the DPS reports the crash occurred about 8:30 Wednesday...
View ArticleVidor Cancels Election
The city of Vidor will be able to cancel the May council election after a candidate withdrew. The city secretary reports C. Audine Behn Rathburn, who had filed for the Ward 6 seat removed her name from...
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Poet Langston Hughes Visited Orange
High school English books feature writers from the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. The poet Langston Hughes is a member of the royalty of the movement and he once visited Orange for a reading. He came...
View ArticleWoman Critical After Found In Jail
On Friday, February 24, 2017 at approximately 8:50 pm, the Orange County Correctional Facility requested medical assistance when a white female was found hanging in a female holding cell. The...
View ArticleAggravated Robbery At Store
On Feb. 25 at 9:14 pm, officers of the Orange Police Department were dispatched to the Chevron Food Mart at 2323 Lutcher in regards to an aggravated robbery. Upon arrival at 9:18 pm, it was learned...
View ArticleEight Car Accident On I-10
Sunday at approximately 1:15p.m., the Texas Department of Public Safety responded to an eight (8) vehicle crash on Interstate 10 in Orange County. The crash occurred on the Neches River Bridge. A 2015...
View ArticleTown Hall Meeting Tonight
The Commissioners Court will hold another Town Hall Meeting. This Town Hall will be to review and discuss the recently settled Montano lawsuit against Orange County. The need for the Town Hall was...
View ArticleTown Hall Meeting Takes Another Turn
The woman inmate in the Orange County Jail who was found hanging in a holding cell Friday night has died. She was identified as 35-year-old Rosa Bonilla. She had been arrested by Orange police on a...
View ArticleMan Dies In Accident On Hwy. 62
On Wednesday, Feb. 22 at 6:34 PM, Officers of the Orange Police Department were dispatched to the 8400 block of N. Hwy 62 in reference to a traffic accident with injuries involving a motorcycle and a...
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