Orange News

Firefighters from Orange, McLewis and Pinehurst responded to a dumpster fire Friday at the Comfort Inn, under construction at the corner of Texas 62 and Interstate 10.

Updated 4:50 p.m. Friday: Fire and other emergency crews are responding to a hotel fire at the corner of State Highway 62 and Interstate 10.

Another year has come and gone and there are still no arrests in the murder of one of Orange's little angels, Dannarriah Finley.

An FBI agent has been sentenced to two years' probation and 300 hours of community service for killing a neighbor's Chihuahua last year.

Investment Centers of America, Inc. , a nationwide provider of non-deposit financial products and services, welcomes Cindy Mims as the new investment representative for the ICA office located at Orange Savings Bank in Orange, Texas.

The Orange County grand jury recently met and returned a capital murder indictment against Martin Edward Fox, 43, of Vidor.

A local neighborhood watch group has kicked it up a notch and is now inviting the entire city to join its meeting.

ORANGE a 'Authorities in East Texas have arrested a man on a capital murder charge in the 1995 death of a woman whose body parts were found in the Sabine River.

Nearly 14 years have gone by since Theresa Foskey was killed in a Bridge City trailer, dismembered and thrown into the Sabine River near Deweyville.

One woman died and one man suffered injuries in a wreck involving three cars Friday evening north of Jasper.

Recently the Orange City Council held a public hearing on the distribution of the 2009 Community Block Grant Program Year.

Friends helping friends and neighbors helping neighbors. That's what it was all about Friday at Optimist Village.

Raul Trochez, site manager of INVISTA's Wilton, England site has been named site manager of INVISTA's Orange, Texas operations.

For the first time in almost 25 years, the Orange Leader will not be sponsoring a fireworks show in Orange.

Jun. 23--The Orange County Hotel-Motel Tax committee is now accepting applications for the funds collected by the county's 2 percent hotel-motel tax, according to a recent press release.

Jerry Gaulding, the former editor of the Orange Leader and current editor of the Diboll Free Press, was found dead Monday morning in his Lufkin apartment, according to the publisher of newspaper.

A preliminary autopsy indicates a man whose body was found floating in the Neches River beneath the Rainbow Bridge died of asphyxia due to drowning.

More than 9 months after Hurricane Ike ravaged Orange County, members of the First Presbyterian Church of Orange are going home.

Firestone Polymers announced at least 25-hourly employees will be laid off by next Friday yet the workers are not ready to give up their jobs quietly.

Texas Comptroller Susan Combs announced Friday the state collected $1.77 billion in sales tax revenue in May, a 5.2 percent decrease compared to May 2008.