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Baseball fields at Ford Park

County awards $136K to bring in tourists for local events, ponders $1.5M for Ford Park upgrades

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Thursday, March 23, 2023

By Barbara Davis | Staff Writer Ford Park Entertainment Complex General Manager Claudio Oliveria stood before the elected officials of Jefferson County Commissioners Court on March 21 to detail why spending $1.

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GOOD NEWS | From The Examiner

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Thursday, March 23, 2023

Fair for free Provost Umphrey Law Firm, LLP is sponsoring a night of free admission to the Young Men’s Business League’s (YMBL) South Texas State Fair on Monday, March 27. Gates open at 5 p.m.

ExxonMobil Beaumont Refinery Plant Manager Rowena Dendy

NEWS IN SHORT | By The Examiner

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Thursday, March 23, 2023

Women in Industry ExxonMobil Beaumont Refinery Plant Manager Rowena Dendy was recently named 2023 Women MAKE Awards honoree.

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CRIME & PUNISHMENT | From The Examiner

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Thursday, March 23, 2023

Party bus murder investigation continues Beaumont Police Department (BPD) detectives are still interviewing witnesses and investigating the March 18 homicide and aggravated assault on Phelan Boulevard.

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Alleged perp from violent viral West Brook High School bathroom assault in court

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Thursday, March 23, 2023

A 16-year-old certified to stand trial as an adult stood all by himself before Jefferson County Criminal District Court Judge John Stevens on March 21, facing robbery charges stemming from a brutal beat-down filmed and uploaded to social media from the boys bathroom at Beaumont ISD’s West Brook...

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Local school police departments grow by one

News Staff

Thursday, March 23, 2023

Kountze ISD became the latest school district in Hardin County to form its own police department.

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Man imprisoned for officer’s death sentenced for second officer’s assault

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Thursday, March 23, 2023

Luis Torres, just a teenager when he drunkenly wrecked head-on into a Beaumont police cruiser while driving the wrong way on the freeway in August 2020, was sentenced this week to a concurrent sentence for seriously injuring an officer in the melee that ensued.

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Banner project broadcasts honor for nation’s heroes

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Thursday, March 23, 2023

People traveling along U.S. 96 and State Highway 326 in Kountze may notice a banner honoring a veteran. The 54-inch by 30-inch double-sided vinyl banner was placed March 15 on a street pole honoring United States Marine Conley “Reece” Hathorn, a former Kountze resident.

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Orange adopts Beaumont curfew citing crime control

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Thursday, March 23, 2023

Not since the height of COVID-19 pandemic was there an active curfew ordinance in the city of Orange, but Orange Police Department Chief Lane Martin considers it a beneficial move for the city.

More than 10,000 fentanyl-laced tablets seized in drug raid. | Photo by Hardin County Sheriff's Office

Raid nets four in Hardin County’s largest seizure of fentanyl-laced tablets

Dannie Oliveaux

Thursday, March 23, 2023

In the largest seizure of fentanyl-laced tablets in Hardin County history, Sheriff Mark Davis reported more than 10,000 tablets were confiscated in a drug raid and the arrest of four men on March 17.

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