March 16, 1943 - October 25, 2025 U.S. Veteran A Celebration of Gene Allen Swain, Sr.’s Life, age 82, of Burkeville, Texas, will be 2:00 p.m., Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at the Stringer & Griffin Funeral Home Chapel in Burkeville, Texas with burial to follow at Sycamore Cemetery in Burkeville. Visitation will be from 12:00 p.m. until the time of service at the Funeral Home. Gene passed away on Saturday, October 25, 2025 at Christus Jasper Memorial Hospital in Jasper, Texas.

Photos Courtesy of Paul Rutledge, Tri-Community VFD JASPER COUNTY – Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) Troopers responded Sunday evening to a crash involving a vehicle and a herd of cattle along Farm-to-Market Road 1013, near County Road 534 in the Mount Union area. According to preliminary information from the DPS Southeast Texas Region, the crash occurred at approximately 8:12 p.m. on October 26, 2025, when a 2013 Honda SUV traveling westbound struck several cattle th

Derryl Edward Dehart, of Silsbee, TX – Age 60 Driving While License Invalid with Previous Conviction/Suspension Without Financial Responsibility Arresting Agency: Texas Department of Public Safety at 12:05 PM Darrell T. Harvey, of Jasper, TX – Age 63 Theft, Class C Arresting Agency: Jasper Police Department at 6:53 PM Jerrell Wayne Stanley, of Buna, TX – Age 54 Unlawful Possession of Firearm by Felon Deadly Conduct – Discharge of Firearm Arresting Agency: Jasper County Sherif

BUNA, Texas — Jasper County Sheriff’s Deputies arrested a Buna man Sunday evening after responding to a disturbance involving gunfire on FM 1004 West. According to Sheriff Chuck Havard, deputies were dispatched around 7:16 p.m. on October 26 to the 9000 block of FM 1004 West in reference to a disturbance with shots fired. Deputies Daigle, Roy, and Walker arrived at the scene and learned that the suspect, identified as Jerrell Wayne Stanley, 54, of Buna, had been involved in