35 Texas counties eligible for individual disaster aid

Residents in a total of 35 Texas counties now qualify for individual disaster assistance following a series of severe storms and flooding that began in late April, The Dallas Morning News reported.

Vidorian recalls jump into Nazi-occupied France on D-Day

June 6, 2019: Donna Little, the new co-owner of The Oaks Event Center, (the former VFW Post on South Main St.) asked the Orange County Commissioners’ Court to grant her application for a Hotel Occupancy Tax Revenue Grant to help offset the cost of a free music event next weekend.

Phelan wins re-election bid, seeks speaker post again

House Speaker Dade Phelan, R-Beaumont, narrowly won re-election in a hotly contested runoff race and has vowed to seek his third term as speaker, drawing threats from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to oppose any of his supporters in the 2024 primary.

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Social Security Matters

by Russell Gloor, National Social Security Advisor at the AMAC Foundation, the non-profit arm of the Association of Mature American CitizensAsk Rusty - About Social Security’s Earnings Test and Cost of Living AdjustmentsDear Rusty: Is there a limit on earnings when you’re fully retired?

Texas writer creates Conan the Barbarian

The instant Robert Ervin Howard learned his comatose mother was not long for this world, the fantasy writer decided Jun. 11, 1936 would be his last day on earth.Bob Howard was born in 1906 at Peaster but left the wide-spot-in-the-road while still in diapers.

Vidorian among crew plucking the Apollo 10 crew from Pacific

5 years agoMay 30, 2019:Thirty-seven year-old Blake Travis Bowen of Vidor was sentenced to ten years in the state penitentiary on Wednesday by the 260th District Court Judge Steve Parkhurst for the intoxication manslaughter death of seventy-two year old Vivian Townsend Markle in a head-on collision...

Additional disaster assistance approved

Seven Texas counties have been approved by the Federal Emergency Management Agency for grants for emergency work and replacement of disaster-damaged public infrastructure, after severe weather and flooding struck much of Deep East Texas, Gov. Gregg Abbott’s office reported.

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May 27, 2014Vidorian file photo Ethan Sheppard, 13, crosses the finish line ahead of an opponent in the Southeast Texas Soap Box Derby races in Beaumont. Sheppard took first place in the super stock division and will travel to Akron, Ohio in July for the national competition.

Wheeler-Dealer Mastered D.c. Corruption

The nation hardly noticed when Bobby Baker, the poster boy for political corruption, got out of prison on Jun. 2, 1972.The Washington insider the press nicknamed “Lyndon’s boy” did not hail from Texas, as many misinformed Americans presumed, but from South Carolina.