Sonny "The Birdman" Carlin comes to the Jasper Public Library

Both Farmers Feed & Supply in Jasper and Tyco General Feed & Ranch Supply in Woodville are under new ownership. Husband and wife Clark & Misty Winslow have purchased both businesses and have immediately gone to work in revamping them in an effort to draw customers in. According to Clark,...

The members of the Experimental Aircraft Association’s Chapter #1356 at the Leesville City Airport celebrated the group’s 22nd anniversary on Saturday. The chapter in Leesville, which is one of the roughly 1,000 local entities of the organization worldwide, not only promote the building of aircraft, but also flying in general, giving local aviators a place to hang out and share ideas and experiences.

James “Jim” Dowden, 87, of Deweyville passed away Friday, August 5, 2022 at his home. A Celebration of Life Service will be held Friday, August 12, 2022 at 3:00pm at Shultz Funeral Home. The family will greet friends from 2pm until 3pm. Jim was born on September 6,...

Jasper County Sheriff Mitchel Newman escaped injury on Tuesday when another vehicle ran a stop sign and collided with the truck he was driving. The accident occurred shortly after 3:00 at the intersection of Highway 190 west and Farm to Market Road 777, near the Jasper County Airport. A report...

Two volunteer fire departments had to fight wildfires on Monday. Both the Angelina River and Lake Rayburn Fire Departments battled an early afternoon blaze along County Road 061 between Recreational Road 255 and the Westwood Community. They were finally able to contain it with help from the Texas A&M Forest...

Jasper County Sheriff Mitchel Newman on Tuesday apologized for an incident that occurred on Monday evening. Newman’s statement was in response to a claim made by a caller to the Tuesday morning “Talk of the Town” program on KJAS. The caller claimed that there was an incident...

Local man injured in accident involving motorcycle in North Jasper County. A local man is undergoing treatment following an accident that occurred on Tuesday morning i…

Mary Jarrell Fontenot passed away peacefully on August 5, 2022 in Jasper, Texas at the age of 70. Born on October 15, 1951 in Lake Charles, Louisiana, she attended and graduated from McNeese State University with a Bachelor of Arts in Art Education. While living in Lake Charles, she met the love of her life, Michael Dane Fontenot, with whom she later moved to Humble, Texas, where they spent more than 40 years before moving to Jasper, Texas.

The Jasper County Sheriff’s Department has announced that they have closed down a game room in Evadale and a customer has been arrested. According to the department, on Wednesday Chief Deputy Scotty Duncan and his deputies along with the Orange County Sheriff’s Department conducted an inspection of the Lucky Five, LLC Game Room on Farm to Market 2246. The department said they found several violations of the Jasper County ordinance regulating game rooms.

Bobby George Boren, 83 of Kirbyville passed away Saturday, August 6, 2022 at Mid Jefferson Extended Care in Beaumont. Funeral service will be 11 am Friday, Agust 12, 2022 at First Assembly of God in Kirbyville with burial at Kirbyville Cemetery. Visitation will be held 5:00-8:00 pm Thursday, August 11 at Adams EE Stringer Funeral Home.

Jasper Police are investigating another report of stolen catalytic convertors. Officers were called to Enterprise Rent-A-Car at 308 North Wheeler Street and Jasper Auto Sales at 490 North Wheeler on Monday when it was reported that workers there had discovered that the anti-pollution devices had been stolen off vehicles. Earlier...

Jasper ISD students will be back in class on Wednesday for the first day of the 2022-23 school year. Meanwhile, Jasper Police Chief Gerald Hall is reminding drivers to slow down in school zones, stop for school busses, and to be aware of students walking to and from school. Hall...

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A local man is undergoing treatment following an accident that occurred on Tuesday morning involving a motorcycle on Highway 96, in the north end of Jasper County. Sgt. Shana Clark of the Texas Department of Public Safety said the crash occurred when a Harley Davidson Motorcycle, that was traveling south on Highway 96 at what is commonly known as "Pipeline Hill", for some unknown reason left the road and turned over on the side of the highway, about a mile north of Recreational Road 255.

Funeral services will be held this weekend in Silsbee for a young Lumberton woman who died in a fiery weekend crash in Beaumont. Beaumont Police say 23-year-old Madison Hope Thibodeau was a passenger in a Jeep that was found wrecked and completely engulfed in flames on Sunday at the Highway 69/347 split in far southeast Beaumont.

Two men are undergoing treatment for injuries they received in a Monday afternoon crash in mid Jasper County. It happened shortly after 1:00 on U.S. Highway 96, just south of Kirbyville. Texas Department of Public Safety Sergeant Shana Clark said that two southbound vehicles, a 1990 Toyota pickup on the...

Two people were injured in a three-vehicle auto accident that occurred on Sunday at the intersection of Highway 190 and South Main Street here in Jasper. Police and firemen along with other emergency crews were dispatched to the location shortly after noon when it was reported that the crash had occurred.

Much needed rainfall in and around Jasper on Tuesday resulted in a beautiful rainbow appearing during the early evening hours. This photo was taken by Judy Dunlap and shared with KJAS News. There's more opportunities for rainbows through the week and on Saturday as the National Weather Service has rain...

There has been another crash involving an allegedly drunk driver crashing into a Beaumont police car, and it happened exactly two years to the day after one officer was killed and another injured when they were hit head-on by a drunk driver. The latest incident occurred shortly before 9:00 Tuesday night on South 11th at Hollywood, about a half-mile north of College.

Other high schools have done it for years, but for Jasper it was a first. New Head Football Coach Kendrick Crumedy held a midnight football practice on Saturday, which was the first day that the UIL allows high school football teams to begin organized and supervised workouts. Calling it "Midnight...