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(From left to right, top to bottom) Chad Cooper, B. Scott McLendon, Jennifer Johnson, Dod Dodd and Sharon Brooks pose with The Examiner's first-place awards from 2022

(From left to right, top to bottom) Chad Cooper, B. Scott McLendon, Jennifer Johnson, Dod Dodd and Sharon Brooks pose with The Examiner's first-place awards from 2022

Examiner staff earns national acclaim at 136th NNAF ceremony

Scott McLendon
Thursday, November 3, 2022
Pitting their 2021 reporting against a pool of more than 1,600 newspapers from across the country, staff at The Examiner emerged as the fifth-most awarded publication – with 15 honors won – at the National Newspaper Association Foundation’s (NNAF) 136th annual “Better Newspaper Contest” in San...
Mark Allen Davis

Mark Allen Davis

Man charged for bloodying ER tech

News Staff
Thursday, November 3, 2022
After punching and “possibly” breaking the nose of a 19-year-old emergency room technician, a Jefferson County grand jury indicted a 20-year-old Port Arthur man for assaulting EMS personnel providing services – a third-degree felony.
Carly Kay Abshire

Carly Kay Abshire

Jeep Driver indicted for passenger death

News Staff
Thursday, November 3, 2022
After a 22-year-old Modelos Sports Bar employee drove her Jeep drunk and crashed, with her coworker dying in the flaming heap, a Jefferson County grand jury indicted a Nederland woman for intoxication manslaughter Nov. 2.
Lukas Allen Waller

Lukas Allen Waller

JCSO seeks stolen goods

News Staff
Thursday, November 3, 2022
The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office (JCSO) is seeking the public’s help in locating an elementary school’s stolen PA system that may have been abandoned in the area of Henderson Avenue in China between Oct. 23 and 26.
Max Lee Keath

Max Lee Keath

Man killed following noise complaint

News Staff
Thursday, November 3, 2022
Detectives with the Beaumont Police Department (BPD) have arrested a 45-year-old Mauriceville man in connection to the vehicular homicide of 38-year-old Christopher Matthews, of Beaumont. BPD reports that officers were called to The Trace at North Major Drive apartments on Sunday, Oct.
Dakota Leander Bailey

Dakota Leander Bailey

Child sex crime arrest

News Staff
Thursday, November 3, 2022
A 22-year-old Orange man was arrested for sexual assault of a child, according to the Lumberton Police Department’s (LPD) arrest report for Oct. 21-27. Dakota Leander Bailey, LPD reports, was arrested, charged with the second-degree felony, and released on bond set at $5,000 by Pct.
Carron Joseph Dickenson Jr

Carron Joseph Dickenson Jr

Murder suspect identified

News Staff
Thursday, November 3, 2022
Beaumont Police Department (BPD) detectives obtained a murder and aggravated robbery warrant for the suspect in a Sept. 21 robbery and subsequent shootout that occurred in the 300 block of E. Simmons. Oct. 28, BPD announced, officers named 29-year-old Carron Joseph Dickenson Jr.
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