Kirbyville News

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.

Nearly 10 years after fire completely destroyed the historic Newton County Courthouse, the long road to recovery and rebuilding took a major step on Tuesday when a new clock tower was raised to the top of the nearly completed building.

And with ONE MILLION in cash and prizes to be awarded to those anglers who weighed-in the hourly, exact weight, and overall big bass leader board bass the competition factor for the first place award valued at $250,000 was extreme, energetic, and continuous.

For the third time in as many months, the Jasper County Sheriff's Department conducted a drug bust at a Kirbyville area home and authorities say this was a big one.

Three men who work for the Texas Department of Transportation were hurt when their pickup truck crashed into a tree while they were returning from a training class.

The water is back on in Kirbyville, but residents are urged to boil their water before drinking or bathing.

A Jasper County judge has decided a pit bulldog that attacked a woman and bit her face last month should be euthenized.

The Jasper County Sheriff's Department has made a second arrest in a case of a pit bull dog attack in the Kirbyville area.

Concrete walls rise from a clearing in the thick pine of the Angelina National Forest in extreme northwestern Jasper County, the remains of a town that prospered for a quarter-century and then vanished.

Approximately 2 dozen firefighters from 3 agencies fought the fire on Friday afternoon.

When the board of the Humane Society of Southeast Texas advertised the job of shelter manager last year, the response was good with a number of apparently qualified applicants submitting their resumes.

Police say two people apparently thought they could go around Hardin and Jasper counties and quietly collect money from different gas stations using what appeared to be stolen scratch-off lottery tickets.

Jasper County Sheriff's Deputies scrambled this morning after a disgruntled elderly person starts firing shots at family members Shortly after 8 a.m. deputies responded to a 9-1-1 call of shots fired in the 900 ...

KFDM News has learned one of the three men convicted in the dragging death of James Byrd, Junior has gotten married.

The search for a new superintendent appears to be over for one local school district.