Orange News

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.

Two men were killed in separate shootings by law enforcement officers early Saturday morning in Central Texas.

The Orange chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is officially under new leadership.

Construction contractor Carl Donald Rossell, 33, of Brookeland has been indicted on a charge of felony theft, accused of taking money from a Mauriceville homeowner whose house was damaged by Hurricane Ike and needed repairs.

Television viewers in some parts of Orange County are not able to get the KFDM digital signal via an antenna.

A manhunt was underway in Orangefield Wednesday morning after a man is believed to have assaulted his wife as she lay sleeping in bed.

Orange city council members during a meeting on Tuesday took a look at amending several ordinances on the books.

ORANGE a 'Bond is more than $2 million for a man charged in the deaths of his estranged wife and a woman who was with her near a Vidor home.