Popular gambler tangles with Wild Bill

Always willing to do fellow Texans a favor, Phil Coe agreed on Oct. 4, 1871 to give four dozen cowboys the grand tour of Abilene when they arrived the next day in the Kansas cowtown.

VISD trustees keep intact ban on all tobacco use on school properties

5 Years ago The Orange County Commissioners voted, in a split decision, to keep the county's 2016 ad valorem property tax rate the same as the 2015 property tax rate. 10 Years ago September 22, 2011: Orange County Sheriff’s Deputy/Investigator Joey Jacobs received an outstanding achievement...

Disaster declaration follows Nicholas

Seventeen Southeast Texas counties have been declared disaster areas after Hurricane Nicholas came ashore, dumping more than a foot of rain and cutting off power to a half-million customers in Texas, according to poweroutage.us. That number had been reduced to about 4,200 as of Sunday.

Looking Back 9/21/2016

Scott Young, a developer who wants the County to take on the Vidor Loop project, makes a final pitch before the Orange County Commissioners’ Court last week. Vidor Mayor Robert Viator, Jr. listens intently from the back row of the commissioners’ courtroom audience.

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This week Hurricane Nicholas made landfall, impacting the coastal region of Southeast Texas and neighboring counties. Though the storm hit as a hurricane, it was later downgraded to a tropical storm and then to tropical depression.

Texan battles Ted Williams for batting crown

In a double-header with the Kansas City Athletics on Sep. 17, 1958, Boston’s Pete Runnels hit safely in four of eight at-bats to raise his batting average to .322, four points better than Red Sox teammate Ted Williams.

Vidor Police officers get raises averaging $11.09 per hour in 1991

10 Years ago September 15, 2011: Construction on the new Rose City City Hall Building is about 80 percent complete according to a representative of the contractor.

Abbott calls third special session for Sept. 20

Gov. Greg Abbott has called a third special legislative session to deal with redistricting, to decide how to spend billions of dollars in pandemic funding from the federal government and to determine to whether state or local governments can mandate COVID-19 vaccines, as well as some pet issues of...

Looking Back 9/14/2016

Orange County Emergency Services District #1 newest fire truck "Rescue One" was delivered to Fire Station #1 last Thursday completely ready to go into immediate operations.

Elections bill passes House along party lines

The Texas House approved an elections bill Friday along party lines with 21 Democrats declining to participate. The bill, slightly different from previously passed Senate legislation, now heads a conference committee that will negotiate a final version.