Hamshire News

By now we have all heard the cliches and seen the posters from the "Tea Parties" espousing freedom, less government, and perhaps most of all, how the federal government had better back off trying to shove their national healthcare down our otherwise healthy throats.

A Jefferson County sheriff's deputy sped through a stop sign earlier this year without use of his siren or flashing lights and collided with a Houston couple's car, injuring them, according to a lawsuit filed in a Jefferson County court.

Cow burps are not regulated by the federal government. And ranchers want to keep it that way.

Rising from the coastal plains and ranchland of western Jefferson County, the once-silver spires of the former Independent Refining Corp.

TX: Rural residents to receive first-time water service The Beaumont Enterprise, Texas May 4--About 400 homes in western Jefferson County will receive water service for the first time this year in a $3.9 million project funded by hurricane relief dollars.