Newton County News

The Deweyville Independent School District will remain through Tuesday due to flooding.

Residents in this small Newton County community are once again watching the Sabine River.

The threat of flooding has prompted the Newton County judge to issue a disaster declaration.

The threat of inclement weather has forced a change to the traditional homecoming parade plans in this small Newton County community.

The Texas Department of Public Safety says the accident occurred at 2:25 Friday morning on Farm-to-Market Road 1414, about 7 miles south of Burkeville.

Originally published September 16, 2009 at midnight, updated September 16, 2009 at 6:25 p.m. As the temperatures become a bit more tolerable and autumn breezes beckon us outdoors, what an opportune time to visit family cemeteries and locate the graves of our ancestors.

However, at the end of the day, there was still no evidence as to where Lennington was or what happened to him.

The Newton County Sheriff's Office is appealing for volunteers to help assist in what investigators call the final search for James Lennington.

25-year-old Brandon Lee Lewis has been held in the Newton County Jail since January when he was arrested and accused of murdering 23-year-old Byron Land.

Three men wanted on murder charges are at the top of the EasTex Crime Stoppers fugitive list this week.

A task force has been created to concentrate efforts on locating 83-year-old James Lennington, a Toledo Bend man who has been missing for six weeks.

The pickup truck of a man that has been missing since Monday was discovered on Saturday in a very rural area known as Scrappin' Valley in north Newton County.

And, fire fighters from Orange & McLewis were called to a grass fire just before 4p.m. Wednesday, July 15, 2009.

The Newton County Sheriff's Office is asking for help in locating an 83-year-old man that has been missing since Monday.

After a storm cell moved through Newton County, a fire broke out along Highway 63.

Deputies and officers of Newton County arrested three men for the possession of a variety of drugs with an estimated value of $2500.00 and drug paraphernalia at what used to be the Yellow Banana Club on Highway 63 East in Newton County on Sunday afternoon.

KJAS News has learned that a Newton County educator has died in a diving accident.

Two train cars weighing more than 100 tons have derailed in Newton County, blocking a major intersection in the area.

Dickie Dixon's historical topic will be "Widows' Pension Applications from Newton County," when he speaks to the Deep East Texas Archeological Society on at 7 p.m. Monday at the Newton County Museum and Historical Center, 103 East Court in Newton.

On September 7, 1995 the body of THERESA DARLENE FOSKEY , W/F, a 28 year old Bridge City resident was found in the Sabine River in Newton County.