Warren News

This year's Orange County Sheriff's Posse Rodeo takes on special meaning as the organization honors one of its own.

"Blazing the Trails with the Good News" for children age 3 - grade 6. 9 - 11 a.m., Monday - Friday.

If you're looking for some of the best barbecue in Texas, you don't have to go any farther than Kountze or Beaumont.

As Jackie Asque made her funeral arrangements, she wrote down instructions for a tombstone inscription.

“They're givers and I don't know how many people they've helped, their neighbors, people all over Southeast Texas and we're wanting to help them get back in their house”

Hurricane season is less than two weeks away.. and yet some families are still living in homes damaged by Hurricane Rita. via KFDM-TV Beaumont

Dennis Warren has been named Claremore Daily Progress publisher. Warren succeeds Sean Evans, who was promoted to vice president of sales and marketing for Community Newspaper Holdings, Inc.'s Great Plains ... via Orange Leader

The State Board of Education on Thursday will consider a new curriculum for English language arts and reading in Texas public schools.

One major difference between the proposed standards and the current curriculum is that the new one includes suggested reading materials, a guide of literary works for teachers to use in the classroom.

The board may also consider a separate reading list -- used by Massachusetts schools -- of hundreds of titles, poets, authors and books of the Bible.

'We'll consider everything,' board Chairman Don McLeroy said. Read more

Two people were killed Saturday after a fatal accident on Highway 69. The accident happened just north of the Hardin and Tyler county line after four yesterday afternoon. via KBTV Beaumont

A dispatcher with the Tyler County sheriff's office tells KBTV-4 that shortly after 8 Saturday morning, the office began getting reports of a possible small twister. via KBTV Beaumont

“We heard bad wind and then I got a call from the school officials that I might need to check my buildings”

The approaching cold front packed a one-two-punch as it spawned a line of tornado-like damaging winds Saturday and caused temperatures to drop to near-freezing this morning. via The Beaumont Enterprise

Special to The Leader Several graduates from Stark High's Class of '57 enjoy monthly luncheons and hen parties between their class reunions. via Orange Leader

George A. Thorman, 78, of Del Rio, Texas, was born January 13, 1929 in Melvin, Texas and passed away September 28, 2007 here in Del Rio, TX. via Del Rio News-Herald