The News

16-foot ‘Banana’ stolen from Gator Country

Although most people wouldn’t touch a 16-foot python with a 16-foot pole, at least one perpetrator has proved the exception to the rule and has absconded with a 16-foot yellow Burmese Python going by the name “Banana” from Gator Country located at 21159 Hwy. 365.

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Banana was stolen from Gator Country

The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office is requesting the public’s assistance in recovering a yellow 16’ Burmese python that is named “Banana”.

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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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