Evadale News

An Evadale couple's decision to celebrate New Year's Eve away from home, may have been the best decision they made in all of 2009 Chris and Crystal Antley celebrated the New Year at a relatives' home and returned home just past midnight to discover that a .45-caliber bullet had ripped through their roof, landing inches from their bed.

The Jasper County Grand Jury has indicted 24-year-old Richard Simmons. The Newton man is accused of using his cell phone to send sexually explicit Text messages and photos to a 12 year old girl in Evadale.

Jasper County Sheriffa s Deputies say they believe a 31-year-old Silsbee man may have been stabbed because he was dating a 15-year-old girl.

By Jade Ortego Killeen Daily Herald BELTON - A Killeen woman pleaded guilty Monday to one count of misappropriation of funds and six counts of credit or debit card abuse for embezzling more than $90,000 from St.

A man has been released from a hospital after doctors treated him for stab wounds he received during a controntation in Jasper County, according to Sheriff Mitchel Newman.

According to Chief Deputy Ralph Nichols, an investigation recently began after the child's mother discovered the messages on the girl's cell phone and contacted the Sheriff's Department.

A Newton man is jailed in Jasper County accused of sending explicit text messages and photos to a 12-year old Evadale girl.

A Newton County man is in the Jasper County Jail after deputies say he sent nude pictures of himself to a young girl.

The Jasper County Sheriff's Department says a high speed chase late Wednesday evening covered three counties, but ended without any injuries and two suspects in custody.

The Jasper County Sheriff's Department says three Buna area teenagers have been arrested and charged with several crimes in south Jasper County, including extensive damage to a historical church.

Standing in the shade of oak and sweet gum trees, the Antioch Primitive Baptist Church has survived the wind and rain since the 1870s.

Otis Deon Collier, 41, died Friday afternoon at Memorial Hermann Hospital in Houston, according to his sister, Monica Williams.

A worker at the MeadWestvaco plant in Evadale was injuried in a flash fire and flown to a Houston hospital for treatment, according to a company spokeswoman.

The Jasper County grand jury has indicted a woman who is charged with murdering her husband last year at the couple's Evadale home.

Fifty high school students from 18 area schools will visit Lamar University and Christus Hospital St.