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Legacy Health celebrates new Beaumont clinic

Legacy Community Health Services (LCHS), a full-service, Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) with five main locations and a variety of secondary sites across the greater Houston area, is celebrating the grand opening of its newest clinic, Legacy Community Health Services South Park, at 4450 Highland Ave. in Beaumont at the former location of Ubi Caritas health clinic.

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Orange council limits flagpole height … again

While the Orange City Council approved flagpole and banner restrictions aimed at

At the Orange City Council meeting on Tuesday, April 23, the council again unanimously approved an ordinance regulating the size and height of flagpoles and banners for residential and commercial property in Orange. 

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Jack Brooks Regional Airport Spring 2013 update

American Airlines Eagle

In a PowerPoint slideshow and presentation at a workshop of the Jefferson County Commissioners Court on Monday, April 22, Jack Brooks Regional Airport Manager Alex Rupp offered an update on the airport and the success of the new American Airlines American Eagle route from Jack Brooks to the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport.

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Out for justice

Deborah Ray Holst, right, has attended each day of testimony.

After the death of her mother at the hands of accused courthouse shooter Bartholomew Granger, Deborah Ray Holst said what she’ll miss most about her mother, Minnie Ray Sebolt, was cooking some of the finest holiday meals in all of Southeast Texas.

“This past November, I had to do it alone,” she said in an exclusive interview with The Examiner. “I had never done it by myself. Me and her always did it together.”

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Set in Southeast Texas

Gerald Duff speaks with a fan

Many authors choose to write fiction set in the most popular locations such as New York, London, or Hollywood. And although these settings are commonplace and perhaps overdone, they sell, according to publishing statistics regarding U.S. fiction titles compiled by Bowker, an American limited liability company that provides bibliographic information of published works to the industry and is the exclusive U.S. agent for issuing International Standard Book Numbers.

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Accident shuts down portion of North Street

An accident between an 18-wheeler and a pickup truck has a portion of North Street closed off as of 10:45 a.m. The accident occurred at approximately 10:35 a.m. at N. Pearl St. and North St. in Beaumont. A Jefferson County Sheriff's deputy was on the scene diverting traffic around the accident. According to the driver of the tractor trailer, he was turning left and the pickup truck attempted to pass on the left, veering into the curb causing damage to the front driver's side tire of the pickup truck.

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UPDATE: Police identify man killed in traffic

On April 22, Beaumont police released the name of the man who died after laying in oncoming traffic on April 20 as 28-year-old Michael Tyrone Motton of Beaumont. See related article at http://theexaminer.com/stories/news/man-killed-after-laying-down-highway-traffic-lane.

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UPDATE: Deputies release name of man killed in China

On April 23, Jefferson County Sheriff's Deputies identified the man killed in yesterday's industrial accident in the 1000 block of Aggie Drive near China as 27-year-old Kevin Oneal Fairman. See related article at http://theexaminer.com/stories/news/death-due-industrial-accident-near-china.

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Day three of testimony in Granger trial

Bartholomew Granger enters the courtroom.

Day three of Bartholomew Granger’s capital murder trial ended after more than 14 family members, Beaumont police officers, attorneys and employees at a local business testified they were caught up in Granger’s scheme to kill Claudia Jackson, Samantha Jackson and Rebecca Richards.

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Village Creek benefits from $1 million settlement

On Monday, April 23, U.S. Attorney John M. Bales called a press conference to announce that a $1 million settlement has been reached with a European shipping corporation resulting in “significant enhancements to nature conservation groups in the Eastern District of Texas” such as Village Creek located in Hardin County.

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