Evadale News

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.

My fellow Aggies: Howdy! My name is Jason Staggs, and I am a senior pre-law history major from Evadale, Texas.

Orangefield offensive coordinator Mike Stewart is the new head coach at Kountze, the school's athletic director said today.

Day three of testimony has wrapped up in the capital murder trial of Crystal Desormeaux.

KBMT has learned a second area student has been diagnosed with viral meningitis.

"She did it, "she killed my son." Those were the words of Leo Desormeaux IV on the stand in the Jasper County district courtroom on Tuesday afternoon.

The Orange County grand jury met this week and returned an indictment against Cory Lee Gaspard, 28, of Groves, for felony burglary of a vehicle.

Jury selection is scheduled to begin Monday morning in the capital murder trial of a woman charged with the death of her young stepson.

A Jasper County Sheriff's Deputy lost control of his cruiser this morning and crashed.

A former juvenile probation officer has been arrested after Jasper County deputies say they discovered pieces of a crack cocaine 'cookie' in his pockets following a traffic stop.

A judge has set a May 11 trial date for a couple charged with capital murder in the death of a toddler.

An Evadale man died as a result of his injuries after he was involved in a one vehicle accident about 7:40 p.m. Sunday.

Jasper County Criminal District Attorney Steve Hollis will be seeking to prosecute Leo and Crystal Desormeaux together for the December 2007 death of infant child Tristin Dobbins.

Update: A shelter in place has been lifted following a truck fire on the bridge over the Neches River in Evadale.

Bill Carden smiled as he stared at the mounds of dirt covering the wooden planks strewn around his commercial property at 1170 Texas 327 East in Silsbee.

Cody Babb, who moved to Southeast Texas from Oklahoma about six months ago, said it smells like sewage.

Mead Westvaco, the company that owns the Evadale paper mill and a plant in Silsbee has announced that it will lay off about 2,000 employees in the coming months.