Live Oak County News

Traffic Alert for all drivers on I-37. The northbound and southbound lanes have been closed on I-37 near mile marker 74 in Live Oak County.

While $450 million in the state's proposed budget is slated to go to Eagle Ford Shale roads, likely none of that money will pay to repair the region's battered county roads that are used to keep the oil and gas boom alive.

Crashes increased by 295.5 percent in McMullen County and by 11.1 percent in Live Oak County from 2008 to 2011, according to the Texas Department of Transportation.

This week's Hot Jobs report is courtesy of Workforce Solutions of the Coastal Bend.

Contributed photo Bettye Stendebach was crowned the first Miss Live Oak County in 1948 and later passed away at the age of 20 from cancer.

Four indictments were handed down by the Live Oak County grand jury on April 18 in District Judge Joel Johnson's court.

An 8-month-old baby girl suffocated at a home in the 100 block of Hide-a-way Hills Road, off County Road 392, on Thursday, April 25, at 12:11 a.m., according to a Live Oak County sheriff's report.

These documents are available for viewing on Aurora's website at www.auroraoag.com.au . listed oil and gas company active in the over pressured liquids rich region of the Eagle Ford Shale in Texas, . The Company is engaged in the development and production of oil, condensate and natural gas in Karnes, Live Oak and Atascosa counties in South Texas.

The dispatchers at the Live Oak Criminal Justice Center received over 476 complaints from April 4 - April 18.

An 8-month-old baby girl suffocated at a home in the 100 block of Hide-a-way Hills Road, off County Road 392, on Thursday, April 25, at 12:11 a.m., according to a Live Oak County sheriff's report.

Austin Garcia, 18, a Flour Bluff senior and captain of his lacrosse team, is continuing to recover in a San Antonio hospital.