Jefferson County News

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.

Week two of early voting for the November 3rd Constitutional Amendment Elections gets underway today in Texas.

A Nederland attorney has announced his candidacy for Criminal District Judge in Jefferson County.

Two people were arrested last night after a traffic stop on I-10 revealed 150 pounds of cocaine hidden in an 18-wheeler. Officers from the Jefferson County Narcotics Task Force and Beaumont police seized the cocaine that has an estimated value of $1.5 million.

KFDM News has learned Jefferson County Narcotics Interdiction Officers, with assistance from a Beaumont Police Department K-9 unit, seized about 150 pounds of cocaine worth $1.5 million dollars wholesale and arrested two people accused of hiding and transporting the cocaine in an 18 wheeler.

A proposed update to the 2011 Texas water plan has Angelina County needing much less water for manufacturing needs in the coming years - something Lufkin officials hope to change.

A state trooper accused of cashing in on a family business is on trial. 33 year-old Jonathan Michael Barnett is charged with engaging in organized criminal activity.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas outside Billy Wiese's home, where on Monday he began putting up a holiday light display that's brightened the Christmas season for all but two of the past 33 years in Jefferson County.