Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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Legendary gospel singer and songwriter, Joyce “Dottie” Rambo died at the age of 74, Sunday, when her tour bus crashed into an embankment around 2:20 a.m. Several members of her staff are in the hospital in Springfield with moderate to severe injuries. It has not been determined if the severe storms and tornadoes that developed Saturday contributed to the 1997 Prevost bus crashing into a guard rail and hitting an embankment on I-44, two miles east of Mt. Vernon, Mo. Rambo was...
WEATHERED STORMS It was 3:45 a.m. this morning and a lot of lightning could be seen in the distance so I turned the radar on. The storm coming was at Wildwood, coming to North Hardin and Newton counties. It moved more southerly. Lake Charles National Weather said it would hit here at the Creaux’s Nest at 4:55 a.m. It was right on the money. Lightning had the sky ablaze. The wind was up but it turned out not too bad. We got a little needed rain out of it. Cow Bayou north took the worst hit. The wind kicked up some damage f...
Courtesy Story By Lance Cpl. Ryan Wicks 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit USS ESSEX, At Sea - Marines and Sailors with the Essex Amphibious Readiness Group prepared for possible humanitarian assistance operations onboard the forward deployed amphibious ships USS Essex (LHD 2), USS Juneau (LPD 10), USS Harpers Ferry (LSD 49) and USS Mustin (DDG 89), May 11. The Essex Amphibious Ready Group along with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), is steaming to support potential...
From the time he was a freshman, senior Nick Reed has given track 100 percent and last Friday at the state meet, track gave back to him. Reed, who usually runs the 400m and 1600m relay, traveled to Austin with the 400m and 800m relay team of senior Seth Thomas, junior Josh Gloston and sophomores Trey Franks and James Haynes. Reed, along with senior Cedric Dantzer, were the alternates who got to travel because of their “senior” status. Haynes, who is the anchor leg for the 400m relay, has nursed a quad injury all season. At...
By Saturday night, most local entities had decisions on elections. Orange voters returned the mayor and one council member to office, plus chose a new member over an incumbent. The Little Cypress-Mauriceville school patrons rejected a bond issue. And the Orange County Drainage District had one new director and a problem. Challenger J.B. Arrington got enough votes to unseat incumbent director Pete Bean, but Arrington’s voter registration card has him living in another precinct...
