Kirbyville News

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.

A shortage of doctors in many rural areas has placed added importance on nurses and doctors' assistants.

The nearest one was in Silsbee, over 30 miles away. According to Kirbyville Police Chief Jeff Clopp, his department received a report of a man in cardiac arrest at the Burke Center on Highway 96.

County Judge Mark Allen says the policy will go into effect on November 1st, and he pointed out that the $40.00 per day charge would begin when the inmate is booked in, and would last until the district attorney's office accepts the charges on the incarcerated suspect.

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The Department of Public Safety suspects that drugs or alcohol might have been a factor in a Wednesday afternoon traffic wreck that killed a Silsbee woman, Trooper Nathan Pierce said Thursday.

The Lamar Institute of Technology students who responded to a car-dump truck wreck on Martin Luther King Boulevard near the campus on July 17.

The Lamar Institute of Technology students who responded to a car-dump truck wreck on Martin Luther King Boulevard near the campus on July 17.

The Newton County sheriff has a Chief Deputy for the first time in two years. Sheriff Joe Walker announced Paul Brister is his new Chief Deputy.

Family and friends gathered at the Church of Christ in Kirbyville to remember the life of Arthur Hadnot on Saturday morning.

A police officer and paramedics performed CPR on a toddler, but were unable to revive him after the child was found in a swimming pool in Kirbyville.

The Kirbyville Police Department is investigating an apparent accidental drowning of a 20-month-old boy.

Temperatures near or above 100 are expected in Southeast Texas during the holiday weekend and the heat index will make it feel like 105-110 in most of the area.

KJAS News is reporting the victim of a flash fire at MeadWestvaco received burns to 90% of his body.

U.S. Attorney John M. Bales announced today that a Kirbyville father and son have been sentenced to federal prison for environmental crimes in the Eastern District of Texas.

While loading the cooler in the back of his pickup with beer and ice Thursday, David Johnson wasn't aware that he soon would be breaking the law by simply driving through dry parts of Jasper County on his way home.