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May 26th to June 1st is Hurricane Preparedness week. The City of Beaumont Emergency Management Team would like to remind you to have preparations made in advance, according to a press release from the Beaumont Police Department. You can register your cell phone for emergency alerts by calling 3-1-1. If you are going to need transportation or assistance in the event of an evacuation, register with 2-1-1. If you have already registered, you do not need to register again.

The man whose body was discovered on the Orange County side of the Neches River on May 5 has been identified as Desmond Gerard O’Hara of Beaumont, according to a news release from the Orange County Sheriff’s Department. O’Hara, 35-year-old black male, was reported missing by his family to Beaumont Police Department on Feb. 16, 2013.

Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Rod Carroll signed a permanent endowment named in his honor at Lamar Institute of Technology May 17 in the school’s Multi-Purpose Center.

The endowment was created with funds donated to the LIT Foundation, and will help provide cadets in LIT’s Regional Police Academy with the opportunity to begin or continue their education.

The endowment recognizes his many contributions to the citizens of Southeast Texas.

According to a news release from the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office, an inmate at the county correctional facility apparently strangled himself to death while alone in his cell.