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Tax bills rock Bolivar with yet another blast

The beautiful turquoise Gulf Shores beach home of Jim and Cindy Srader — more th


Appraised home and land values soar nearly four years after Ike

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Beaumonter sentenced 99 years for murder

Christopher Michael Brown, 34 of Beaumont, was sentenced April 27 to 99 years in the state penitentiary for his role in the 2010 murder of Jimmy Hancock on July 19, 2010.

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Only game in town

Billy McBride, a lifelong Orange County resident in retirement, didn’t have an ambulance of preference when he called 9-1-1 to take his seriously ill sister to the hospital even though she didn’t have insurance and the family was covering costs out-of-pocket. After receiving a bill from Acadian Ambulance, however, McBride decided he’d shop around for an ambulance provider when it was time to bring his loved one back home after battling with a lengthy hospital stay.

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From order to chaos: Eviction can lead to a free-for-all

Constable Charles Wiggins Jr. could sense what was about to happen.


With 30 years of law enforcement under his belt, including 18 in the constable’s office and the last eight as the head man in Precinct 1, serving an eviction is old hat for him and his staff, but Wednesday’s situation was just a tad different.

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Case of Marine’s shooting death marches on

Multiple lives were forever changed when an off-duty Orange Police captain decided to use lethal force on a Marine accused of causing a ruckus at a busy auto parts store July 26, 2010. The ramifications of his actions nearly two years later are still not completely realized as the saga continues. This past week, the shooter and the victim’s family were set to converge in a Beaumont court.

Prologue

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