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TxDOT Fan Van to visit Lamar game, raise DUI awareness

Fan Van

From parking lot barbecues to colorful team spirit, football tailgating is a Texas tradition. At the Lamar-McNeese State game Saturday, Nov.

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Operation Christmas Child underway

This holiday season, Beaumont residents are joining millions of people across the U.S. and around the world to fill empty shoeboxes with toys, school supplies and hygiene items for 9.8 million impoverished children.

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PODS of Beaumont collects Thanksgiving fare for food bank

One in six Americans does not know where their next meal will come from and 48.8 million are food insecure.  In southeast Texas alone, more than 900,000 people do not have consistent access to enough nutritious food.

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Jefferson County Sheriff's Office searching for fugitive

Alameda

The Jefferson County Sheriff's Office Fugitive Warrant Division is asking the public’s assistance in locating a serial narcotic distributor. The warrant division is attempting to locate:

Name: Daniel Ignacio Alameda, Age: 30, Height: 5'3,  Weight: 150 lbs, Hair: Shaved, Eyes: Brown, Tattoos: (Left Shoulder) "Santa Muerte and Pit bull"(Abdomen) "ALAMEDA"

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UPDATE: Nederland Police nab liquor store robbery suspect

Christopher Hebert

Nederland Police caught up to the suspect in the Twin City Liquor store robbery and shooting Friday, Nov. 22. Police arrested Christopher Michael Hebert,33, of Groves, for Aggravated Robbery. 

Hebert is being charged with the November 16 robbery of Twin City Liquor located at 507 N. Hwy 347 in Nederland.  

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Former Rose City secretary pleads guilty to stealing from public

In what Orange County District Attorney John Kimbrough called a "surprise" move, former Rose City secretary Veronica Grant pleaded guilty to theft by a public servant charges in Judge Dennis Powell's courtroom on Nov. 14 and threw herself on the mercy of the court. She made an open plea of guilty, meaning no plea agreement was negotiated and a jury will not be responsible for determining her punishment.

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Bearded Beaumont man on a cycle keeps lawns cut close

Every day, Rickey Green shakes off the early morning grogginess, loads his mower and edger, his gas can and broom, and sets out from his home on Pennsylvania Avenue on a bike to serve his eager clients.

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S.O.C. program to boost reading skills

A new program initiated by Save Our Children (S.O.C.) has recently been implemented in four Beaumont schools with the purpose of boosting the reading capabilities of Beaumont Independent School District students. And those involved in the program say it seems to be working.

Beaumont resident and S.O.C. found­er the Rev. J.D. Roberts said he noticed a disturbing trend in local schools.

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Kent Walston files for 58th District Court bench

The scene at Nederland Municipal Court is repeated on a regular basis. Thanks to a quirk in the law, misde­meanor cases filed against youth ages 12 to 17 are heard here, not in juvenile court.

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Is Lambert next?

Patricia Lambert

After The Examiner first detailed the inconsistencies between BISD assistant super­intendent of secondary educa­tion Patricia Adams Collins Lambert’s actual educational pedigree and what is touted as her “Harvard-trained, highly-functional, extremely-gifted educator” background, the Beaumont Independent School District released the publicly available contents of

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