Recent News About Deweyville
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BEAUMONT – A Deweyville couple are seeking damages from a Louisiana man and his employer over a collision that occurred at an intersection near Tarkington Prairie.
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GALVESTON – The Houston man recently convicted of killing a woman at the Jefferson County Courthouse in Beaumont last year was sentenced to death Tuesday.
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GALVESTON - Bartholomew Granger's first time on the stand in the sentencing phase of his six-week trial was as short as his temper.
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GALVESTON - Attorneys for convicted Jefferson County Courthouse shooter Bartholomew Granger brought in witnesses to testify in the punishment phase.
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GALVESTON - Following what his defense team called an "uncontrollable breakdown" which prompted a Jefferson County District Court judge to adjourn the first day of the punishment phase on Wednesday, a calmer Bartholomew Granger returned to the courtroom Thursday.
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GALVESTON - An apparent outburst from the Houston man convicted of capital murder in the Jefferson County Courthouse shootings abruptly ended the first day of his trial's punishment phase.
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GALVESTON - Jurors in the Bartholomew Granger capital murder trial delivered a guilty verdict Tuesday against the 42-year-old Houston man charged with the Jefferson County Courthouse shootings that killed one and injured three others.
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GALVESTON – The man accused of fatally shooting a woman and wounding three others at the Jefferson County Courthouse in Beaumont last year took the stand in his own defense Monday.
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GALVESTON - The prosecution in the capital murder trial of Bartholomew Granger rested its case shortly before noon Thursday, just three days after testimony began.
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GALVESTON - Bartholomew Granger's daughter spoke Wednesday before jurors in his capital murder trial.
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GALVESTON - The last person to see Deweyville resident Minnie Ray Sebolt alive during the Jefferson County Courthouse shootings took the stand Tuesday.
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A heavy downpour in Newton on Saturday didn’t dampen the spirits of those who had waited 12 years to see their beloved county courthouse rebuilt after a devastating fire.
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The Jefferson County Courthouse remains barricaded after a gunman opened fire near the entrance on March 14. It was around 11:20 a.m. on Wednesday, March 15, and Beaumont Police Chief James Singletary was in back of the police station "talking to the guys" during shift change when he heard the sound of gunfire coming from the county courthouse next door.
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Bartholomew Granger, 41, has been identified as the suspect in a shooting rampage that left one dead and three others wounded. Police have identified the gunman in today's deadly shooting rampage at the Jefferson County Courthouse as 41-year-old Bartholomew Granger.
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Between the years of 1964 to 1985 Louie Fittz claims he worked at several area refineries. Now residing in Deweyville, Fittz says he was recently diagnosed with an asbestos-related disease and is suing the American Optical Corp., along with 15 other companies, for "negligently exposing him to asbestos," while "fraudulently concealing" the mineral's latent dangers.
