Mont Belvieu News

There's been an explosion in the Seabrook area, KPRC Local 2 reported. The explosion happened at the American Acryl plant in the 12000 block of Port Road near state Highway 146 in Seabrook at about 8:50 a.m. Black smoke could be seen for miles.

A large explosion took place at an American Acryl chemical plant near Seabrook, Harris Country, Texas at 8:50 AM local time.

The deadline to register to vote in the general election on November 3, 2009, is Monday, October 5, 2009.

Crews were working to clean up an oil spill in Mont Belvieu Tuesday morning. It happened in Smith Gully, near Highway 146 and I-10. Officials said someone apparently dumped several barrels of oil into the creek.

Some students in a local school district will have to submit to drug testing when classes resume.

Some students in a local school district will have to submit to drug testing when classes resume.

A Chambers County deputy is being laid to rest today. Friends, family and colleagues of Shane Detwiler have gathered at a church in Mont Belvieu.

Two suspects led officers from five police agencies on a chase that led over parts of Harris, Liberty and Chambers Counties before coming to an end in Mont Belvieu Monday.

Nearly a thousand people attended the funeral for Chambers County Deputy Shane Detwiler.

A sheriff's deputy who paid the ultimate sacrifice was remembered in Southeast Texas on Friday, July 17, 2009.

Hundreds of family, friends and law enforcement officers crowded into a Mont Belvieu church on Friday to pay their final respects to a Chambers County sheriff's deputy who was killed in the line of duty, KPRC Local 2 reported.

The funeral for Deputy Shane Detwiler will be Friday, July 17, 2009 at 10:00 am at the Maranatha Church on Hwy 146 N. in Mt.

County Sheriff Joe LaRive holds photos of Deputy Shane Detwiler and his family after a news conference in Anahuac on Tuesday to discuss the shootout at a mobile home park near Baytown that led to Detwiler, 31, being killed the day before.

A Southeast Texas deputy is dead after an effort to shut off the water at a mobile home was met with gunfire.

CME Group, the world's largest and most diverse derivatives exchange, today announced the launch of clearing services for six new physically delivered natural gas liquids futures contracts.

A US ethylene futures contract that began trading on Monday will improve liquidity and could eventually allow plastics buyers downstream to manage fluctuations in petrochemical prices, a CME Group official said.

CME Group CME Group has launched clearing services for a new Mont Belvieu ethylene futures contract, CME Group reports.