Hardin County News

With temperatures in the triple digits, the start of fireworks sales for the July 4 holiday came with a warning from authorities in Hardin County.

WITH HIS neatly clipped moustache and checked shirt buttoned up to his neck, 51-year-old Yalcin Yalman doesn't look like a typical trendsetter.

The Hardin County grand jury has indicted a former Kountze Middle School teacher.

Worried about keeping your kids busy this summer? A program in Hardin County is providing fun activities and free food for kids.

U.S. Attorney John M. Bales announced today that a 29-year-old Kountze man has been found guilty by a jury of federal firearms violations in the Eastern District of Texas.

A newly seated Hardin County grand jury will take a second look at evidence collected in the alleged sexual assault of a Silsbee cheerleader last October.

Authorities have filed charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon against a man accused of firing about two dozen rounds from a semi-automatic weapon Sunday afternoon and striking two men at a trailer park in Silsbee, according to information KFDM News received from Silsbee Police Chief Dennis Allen.

Hardin County Sheriff Ed Cain and Silsbee Police Chief Dennis Allen tell KFDM News officers are searching for two men following a shooting at or near a trailer park off Gentry Road.

KFDM News has learned charges have been dropped against the first woman indicted for capital murder in Hardin County.

The Hardin County grand jury has indicted a woman for murder in a case in which she claims she shot her husband in self defense.

A Hardin County woman has bonded out of jail after she was charged with interfering with child custody and enticing children to leave their family.

KFDM News has learned the parents of a Silsbee High School cheerleader filed a federal lawsuit late Friday afternoon against Hardin County District Attorney David Sheffield and the Silsbee school district as well as four other people.

Silsbee Police tell KFDM News a lockdown at the high school prompted by a telephone threat was eased Wednesday afternoon with no weapons discovered and no injuries to students or staff.

KFDM News has learned the F.B.I, the Texas Rangers and the Lumberton Police Department are investigating the death of a man who was involved in struggle with police early Thursday morning.

What can you buy with two cents? Lumberton Fire and EMS officials say they can buy growing supplies, which include new fire stations, infrastructure improvements and, most importantly, up to three part-time, paid firefighters.

More than a thousand Southeast Texans spent today's federal tax, turn-in deadline to oppose what those taxes are being used for.

'On Thursday April 2nd, 2009, Judge Britt Plunk of the 356th Judicial District of Hardin County, Texas heard the State's Motion to Increase Bond filed by the Hardin County District Attorney's Office.

This week's Restaurant Report Card comes to us from the Hardin County Health Department and Inspector Marian Kellum.

All of Southeast Texas is under a tornado watch and the National Weather Service radar is indicating a tornado warning in the Kountze area.

About 15 of 20 suspects sought on drug charges were jailed by 8:30 p.m. Wednesday.