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Christus accepting donations for victims of Typhoon Haiyan

Photo courtesy of the United States Marine Corps

Christus is leading an effort to help those impacted by Typhoon Haiyan, one of the largest typhoons in history that caused more than 4,000 deaths and more than $1 billion worth of damage in the Philippines and Southea

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Local family copes with child’s epilepsy

David Emmanuelle

When Barbara Ann Cooper was pregnant with her two-year-old daughter, David Emmanuelle, doctors told her things did not look good for the baby. They listed a host of potential diagnoses, from Down’s syndrome to heart disease. Barbara was told it was likely her daughter would be stillborn. But she never gave up. Even when she could feel her child trembling inside her womb, she refused to believe all was lost.

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Silsbee Operation Graduation VP charged with taking raffle money

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A Silsbee woman and former vice president of Silsbee High School’s Operation Graduation is facing serious accusations that she mishandled thousands in Operation Graduation money.

But an Examiner investigation has revealed this isn’t the first time Michelle Gore Quave, 40, has been under the law’s microscope for financial-related crimes.

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Judge rules BISD will pay its own legal bills

When an automatic pay raise provision was somehow inserted into new BISD superintendent Timothy Chargois’ employment contract in May 2012, it came as a shock to at least two sitting Beaumont Independent School District Board of Trustees members.

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Police say Vidor woman falsely identifies

A woman claiming to be someone else was arrested for marijuana possession and failure to identify after police say they caught her behind a Vidor business collecting copper wire.

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