Kirbyville News

A main break on a water line in Kirbyville has forced the city to ask some families to boil their water until further notice.

A line of storms has moved out of Southeast Texas, leaving behind cooler temperatures and slowly decreasing clouds.

The Police News December 17, 2009 GALVESTON TX - Three Galveston brothers charged with capital murder in Jasper County will be held in jail without bail, according to a Sheriff's spokesman there.

Three brothers from Galveston and a woman from Dickinson have been charged with capital murder in the slaying of a man at an east Texas hotel.

Three brothers from Galveston and a woman from Dickinson have been charged with capital murder in the slaying of a man at an east Texas hotel.

On 12/13/2009 at approximately 2:39 PM Jasper County Sheriff's Office received a 911 call that a man had been shot at the Gateway Motel in downtown Kirbyville.

Police arrested three island brothers on capital murder charges in connection with a slaying at an East Texas hotel, authorities said Tuesday.

Brothers Shane Jermaine Matthews, 30, and John Clinton Matthews, 33, and their half-brother, David Lee Haywood, 36, all of Galveston, and 29-year-old Miesha Vesha Kelly of Dickinson, are all charged with Capital Murder and bond has been denied.

Three Houston-area men were arrested today in connection with the Sunday shooting death of a man at a Kirbyville motel, according to investigators.

Following talks that apparently began on Friday between Sadler and his attorney Ed Tracy, along with District Attorney Steve Hollis, the defendant appeared before District Judge Jerome Owens shortly after 9:00 and agreed to serve 40 years in prison for his crime.

At least three suspects are sought after an apparent drug-related slaying at a motel in Kirbyville.

Officers throughout Jasper and Newton Counties are searching for two suspects following an apparent murder that took place at the Gateway Motel in Kirbyville on Sunday afternoon.

19-year-old Mark Anthony Sadler is accused of beating 77-year-old Dixon Conn with a shovel, robbing him, and leaving him for dead in October of 2008.

Newton County Sheriffa s deputies are investigating a Friday-morning stabbing death.

Jasper County deputies fired shots and used a Taser to stop a man who tried to evade arrest after driving on the wrong side of the highway.

Kirbyville lawmen are looking for a man who reportedly attacked a senior citizen with a hammer.

Searchers have found a child reported missing earlier Monday near Kirbyville, according to Steve Stewart with KJAS Radio.

UPDATE: 12:03 P.M. Missing child reported found. More information later in the day -- PREVIOUS STORY -- The Jasper County Sheriffa s Office is looking for a missing child, 4, that disappeared sometime Monday morning.

On one hand, you have to tip your John Deere hat and salute this little feat of deep East Texas Redneck ingenuity and derring-do. On the other hand, you just have to wonder WTF they were thinking.

Jasper County Deputy Mike Smith says he was on routine patrol on Highway 96, just north of Kirbyville, at about 5 a.m. when he spotted a 1/2 ton Dodge pickup truck struggling to pull a 16 foot lowboy trailer with a ten-ton oil pump on it.