Jim Wells County News

Texas conditions could be simply summed up as "hot and dry." But read between the lines and you'll find drought severely stressing crops, livestock, agricultural producers and rural communities, according to Texas AgriLife Extension Service personnel.

A taskforce has been created in Jim Wells County to deal with a recent rash of burglaries out there.

There were no new drilling permit applications for Aransas, Bee, Brooks, Duval, Kenedy, Kleberg, McMullen, Nueces and San Patricio counties.

Over the last two weeks, law officers say there's been a rash of home burglaries in and around the small town of Orange Grove in Jim Wells County.

Precinct 6 Constable Bartolo Guajardo has removed himself from truancy court duties over the last month, but would not say why he has chosen to do so.

Banales signed an order last week assigning a Jim Wells County district judge to hear the three remaining trials for Celis, a former law firm operator accused of money laundering, theft and impersonating a peace officer.

J. Manuel Banales, presiding judge over the fifth administrative region, signed an order this week appointing Terrell to the case.

I've always found that when someone does not have a current inspection sticker, it is usually because they do not have insurance or because of a defect with the vehicle that would prohibit them from passing the state vehicle inspection.

Bee County property owners pay less taxes for county government services than taxpayers in 10 surrounding counties, a study revealed.

A Ben Bolt man is in the Jim Wells County Jail accused of raping a five-year-old girl.

Operation Dust Storm was drug dealer roundup that covered Nueces and Jim Wells County over the last two weeks.

The Jim Wells County Sheriffa s Department was named as a defendant in a lawsuit filed May 8 by Valeria Saldivar and Rebecca Martinez, as next friend of Marissa Martinez.

The former district attorney, Joe Frank Garza, says he did nothing wrong. He acknowledges using drug funds to pay the secretaries and says the casinos were the sites of seminars.

A major clean up is now underway in a Jim Wells County neighborhood a day after a storm hit the area.

The region saw scattered thunderstorms over the weekend, with some areas staying dry as a bone and others getting fast-moving, intense thunderstorms.

Operation Dust Storm in Jim Wells County lands 25 people accused of dealing drugs behind bars.

The Jim Wells County Ballot Boarda s decision led to a reversal on the Alice ISD Place 1 race, with candidate Mike Cochran now the winner over incumbent Roger Saenz by one vote, 1,350 to 1,349. The ballot board met Thursday night to review the 25 provisional ballots and one overseas ballot received by the JWC Election Administratora s office by the ...

A Sandia man has been killed in a single-car accident over in Jim Wells County. Syate troopers said 50-year-old Robert Lee Doss was headed down FM-534 this past weekend when he veered into oncoming traffic.

Two school districts in southern Jim Wells county are shut down due to the swine flu.

Alice city officials and Jim Wells County officials are also keeping an eye on the spread of the new flu.