6-year-old Greyson Scott Pinner of Mauricevillle died this weekend at a Houston hospital after he was found unresponsive in a hotel swimming pool Friday. He had been in the Houston area with his family for a select team baseball tournament. The team, including his family and older brother, were staying at the hotel. Reports are adults were in the pool with the children. Greyson was the son of Derek and Alicia Swinney Pinner and would have turned 7 on April 15. He was a first grade student at Mauriceville Elementary School. Little Cypress-Mauriceville school district spokeswoman Sherry … [Read more...] about Boy Loses Life In Houston Pool

A toddler was burned by cleaning chemicals Friday afternoon in Orange and was taken by medical helicopter to a Galveston hospital. Police Detective Captain Robert Enmon said the child's injuries are not life-threatening or disfiguring. Orange police report the 16-month-old was at his grandmother's house and spilled the bottle of cleaner at the residence in the 2200 block of Second Street. The grandmother and mother immediately started running cold water over the toddler and called 9-1-1, police reported. Captain Enmon said the incident appears accidental, but police are … [Read more...] about Child Burned With Chemicals

Robert E. Russell, age 64,  was upset with the spoiled youth.  They were interested more in fashion than their friends and were lazy. "They can't walk three blocks they must have a carriage," he wrote. Back when he was young, he and his friends would walk a mile to a dance. Russell wrote his observances of Orange more than a century ago, back in January 1911. Local historians now refer to his papers as "The Russell Diary," though his writings are not in diary form, but in his recollections. Luckily, he wrote down his memories. Even writing them down decades later, his stories give view of … [Read more...] about The Russell Diary