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Town Hall Meeting discusses Confederate flag memorial in Orange

A town hall meeting Saturday, March 23, at the American Legion Post 49 on Green Avenue was intended by organizers to be a meeting presenting both sides of the controversy over a proposed memorial that would display more than 20 Confederate flags including the infamous battle flag and would be visible from Interstate 10. It turned into a very one-sided affair, however, when no one from the organization Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) showed up to speak their piece.

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Harbor Healthcare Systems provides new study hall for Girls’ Haven

The young ladies of Girls’ Haven are celebrating after receiving a welcome gift from Harbor Healthcare Systems in the form of a brand new study room.

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March for Babies

Hundreds of families and business leaders will join together April 20 in the March of Dimes annual March for Babies — the nation’s oldest walk fundraiser honoring babies born healthy and those who need help to survive and thrive. The walk will take place at Lamar University and will start in a field between Brooks-Shivers Hall and the John Gray Center, 855 E. Florida Ave. in Beaumont. Registration begins at 9 a.m. with the 3-mile walk kicking off at 10 a.m. To register for the event, visit www.marchforbabies.org or call (409) 242-6656.

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Identity thieves impersonate Medicare employees to target Texas seniors

pic from identitytheftnetwork.org

(Press release by Attorney General of Texas)

State authorities are warning senior citizens to be wary of identity thieves who are posing as Medicare officials in an attempt to steal seniors’ sensitive personal information.

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Cocaine found after high-speed pursuit, crash

A high-speed chase between police and two Florida men driving a gold Buick Rendezvous began in Beaumont near Ford Park on Thursday, March 28, and ended with the suspects crashing their car into a pylon at the underpass of I-10 and Highway 12 near Veteran’s Park in Vidor.

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Argument ends in stabbing

At least one man is in critical condition after he was stabbed Wednesday night. 

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Veterans Organizations Speak Out in LU Public Relations Professionals Series

Lamar University

Public Relations practitioners representing two nonprofit veterans organizations will be featured in the second of the three-session Fourth Annual Spring Public Relations Professionals Series on Tuesday, April 2 at 5:30 p.m.

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Lamar University to host 2013 Brooks Conference April 18

Lamar University

The Lamar University Jack Brooks Chair in Government and Public Service will focus on substance abuse when it hosts the 2013 Brooks Conference Thursday, April 18.

Activities will begin at 7:30 a.m. in the Lamar Institute of Technology Multi-Purpose Center, at Jimmy Simmons Boulevard and East Lavaca. 

Dawn Mathis of the Drug Enforcement Administration in Houston will be the keynote speaker for a luncheon from noon to 1:15 p.m. Other guest speakers include Shane Howard, Jefferson County tax assessor-collector.

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Port Arthur man gets 55 years for burglary

Gerald Franklin

 

A Port Arthur man has been sentenced to a lengthy prison term for stealing paint. 

Gerald Franklin, 47, went to trial for the theft of 5-gallon buckets of paint he stole from an elderly woman in Port Arthur Aug. 2, 2012. 

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Gena Reaud, Aug. 31, 1924 - March 23, 2013

Gena Reaud

Bells tolled, choirs of angels assembled, and God himself opened the gates of heaven last Saturday, March 23, to welcome Genevieve Hawkins Reaud home.

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