Jefferson County News

A 54-year-old Nederland man was sentenced last week to six years to life for sexually assaulting his friends' sons, the Jefferson County District Attorney's Office announced Monday.

The grandmother of a 4-year-old boy who was left alone on a Beaumont ISD bus for several hours in January has filed suit against the school district.

The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission will be working with local law enforcement to conduct more Alcohol Compliance Checks over the next few months.

PoliceNewsLink.Com Nov. 11, 2009, 9:00PM HOUSTON -- The case was a forensic nightmare, providing only the slimmest clues.

Plans are underway to launch an awareness campaign in rural parts of Jefferson County.

Jefferson County Precinct 2 Justice of the Peace Bob Morgan has officially announced he won't be a candidate for re-election in the March, 2010 Democratic Primary.

Forensic anthropologist Sharon Derrick said the victim was identified through DNA analysis as Joseph Allen Lyles, who was 17 when he disappeared in February 1973.

Jefferson County commissioners have decided to close a bridge damaged in Hurricane Ike because they say it's dangerous.

A Jefferson County sheriff's deputy sped through a stop sign earlier this year without use of his siren or flashing lights and collided with a Houston couple's car, injuring them, according to a lawsuit filed in a Jefferson County court.

Waiting to die, that's how health care professionals see many Southeast Texans who are at the end of their rope trying in vain to qualify for medical help.

The owner of the Gator Country entertainment and educational park in Jefferson County will star in a CMT series 'Gator 911.' Gary Saurage tells KFDM News that for the past month a crew from CMT has been filming episodes at Gator Country.

The city of Nederland is looking to annex some property near the Southeast Texas Regional Airport.

Jefferson County narcotics officers with assistance from a Beaumont Police K-9 found more than 20 pounds of cocaine hidden in an ice chest on a Mexican tour bus stopped in Beaumont.

Click here to download a printable PDF listing all of the polling locations in Jefferson County next week.

LIVINGSTON A 43-yearold Nederland man died early Friday after his car collided with a log truck on U.S. 190 East near County Line Road.

Manuel Quezada, lead plaintiff in a lawsuit against Farmers, shows some of the damage Hurricane Ike caused in a bedroom of his Sharpstown home.

A Groves man whoa s accused of beating and kicking his 100-year-old grandmother after he allegedly had been drinking has been indicted for injury to the elderly and aggravated assault.

A family and community mourn tonight as complications from a strain of type A flu has claimed the life of a 5-year-old boy in Nederland.

A five-year-old Nederland boy died Monday from complications of H1N1, the first of Jefferson County resident to do so, as local public health officials wait to receive sufficient amounts of vaccine.

Early voting is October 19-30. The election is November 3. 750 people in Jefferson County had cast ballots in early voting through Sunday afternoon, including 45 who returned mail-in ballots.