Liberty County News

November 2009 LIVINGSTON - Two Cleveland residents, Steven Scott Stowe and Joy Stowe were arrested and charged with burglary of a building after detectives identified the couple as being involved in a series of burglaries in Polk, San Jacinto and Liberty counties.

The body has been found of a Liberty County cowboy who disappeared last weekend helping friends round up cattle near the swollen Trinity River.

The search resumed in Dayton, Liberty County, for a man believed to have been swept away by floodwaters from the Trinity River, KPRC Local 2 reported.

Raymond Nash, with a 1981 of his mother, Lillian Gertrude Nash, and father, Raymond Lee, has waited almost 25 years for a break in his mother's death.

Raymond Nash has been waiting a long time - almost 25 years now - to confront the man who stabbed his mother to death.

DAYTON a 'The search resumed Monday in Liberty County for a livestock herder who disappeared while moving cattle near the rain-swollen Trinity river.

Originally published November 2, 2009 at 7:03 a.m., updated November 2, 2009 at 7:07 a.m. DAYTON, Texas a ' Boats have been used in the search for a livestock herder who disappeared in Liberty County while moving cattle near the rain-swollen Trinity River.

An indictment handed down on Tuesday by the Jasper County grand jury said that officers found a homemade knife, commonly known as a "shank" in 56 year old Thomas Van Hook's possession.

Police arrested a Cleveland Middle School teacher in Conroe on Wednesday on a warrant for sexual assault of a child.

A sixth-grade English teacher at Cleveland Middle School was taken into custody Wednesday after allegedly engaging in an improper relationship with a student.

Liberty County Judge Phil Fitzgerald, who's under state and federal investigation for allegations of showing favoritism to prominent personal injury lawyer Glenn Vickery, was stripped Monday of his role overseeing the $2.8 million trust for that attorney's daughter.

Fire destroyed part of a popular tourist spot in Liberty County on Sunday. Firefighters were dispatched to Chain-O-Lakes Resort and Conference Center off of FM 787 near Romayor around 5 p.m. where they found the two-story lodge ablaze.

Liberty County Judge Phil Fitzgerald, under pressure for months from a probe into misconduct allegations, has withdrawn a demand that two local news entities turn over all information gathered about him as new revelations continued to surface.

Charlotte Lynn Redmond, 42, of Liberty, has been convicted of Aggravated Assault on a Peace Officer, Possession of Cocaine with intent to deliver and Felon in Possession of a Firearm and sentenced to lengthy prison terms by 75th District Court Judge C.T. "Rusty" Hight.

Tim Miller, left, and Ken DeFoor, a retired Liberty County chief deputy, plan the area where Texas EquuSearch will look for the rocket debris.

Dr. Oz' free health clinic Saturday made a big difference in hundreds of lives, KPRC Local 2 reported.

Texas Allied Petroleum, Inc. is participating in a 10,000 ft. oil test in Liberty County, Texas known as the Neuman #1. The business of TAP is the exploration, development and production of oil and natural gas reserves in the Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coast Area.

By COSHANDRA DILLARD Staff Writer They came from across the country to share experiences and become informed on the latest scientific clues that may prove that their belief in the so-called Bigfoot is not so implausible.

After 60 years and in the midst of the national health care debate, the only hospital serving the southern half of Liberty County has closed because of mounting debt.

Showers and thunderstorms made for a wet start to the new school year for some students today as summer vacation ends, but summer in Houston is still going full steam.