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SETX Food Bank braces for ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ impact

News Staff
Wednesday, July 16, 2025
National legislative decisions exacted in recent weeks and days are taking food from the very mouths the national government claims to protect and serve, as budget cuts and the Big Beautiful Bill threaten the supplemental food provided to those in desperate need of the assistance, according to...
Signage posted within Pick N Shop — 870 S. Major Dr. — indicating cash payout.

Signage posted within Pick N Shop — 870 S. Major Dr. — indicating cash payout.

Beaumont City Council to decide fate of 8-liner gaming amid ongoing public safety concerns

Barbara Davis
Tuesday, July 15, 2025
The citizens of Beaumont may soon witness a turning point in the city’s approach to 8-liner game play as, throughout Southeast Texas, businesses are being brought to task for skirting the edges of legality while becoming flashpoints for violent crime, gambling addiction and financial exploitation.
Heartfield, Badon, Menchaca, Cahill and Baker

Heartfield, Badon, Menchaca, Cahill and Baker

Hill Country floods unite Southeast Texans in tragedy

Maddie Sims
Monday, July 14, 2025
After nearly a week of sifting through carnage left in the wake of a series of floods that engulfed the Texas Hill Country over the July 4 weekend, officials have identified more than 100 fatalities — three named in Southeast Texas youths Joyce Badon, 21; Ella Cahill, 22; and Mary Grace Baker, 8;...
Chester and his wife Lisa work with children facing special challenges and give them wildlife encounters. They also involve their dogs including Hawkeye, a super sweet and photogenic bullmastiff that has visited hundreds of kids and helped several dog bite victims overcome their fear of canines.

Chester and his wife Lisa work with children facing special challenges and give them wildlife encounters. They also involve their dogs including Hawkeye, a super sweet and photogenic bullmastiff that has visited hundreds of kids and helped several dog bite victims overcome their fear of canines.

Award-winning Chester Moore Outdoors coming to The Examiner

Chad Cooper
Friday, June 27, 2025
Chester Moore is one of the most recognizable names in wildlife. The lifelong journalist and native of Southeast Texas will begin his award-winning coverage for The Examiner every week beginning Thursday, July 2.
That Mexican OT (Photo by Chad Cooper)

That Mexican OT (Photo by Chad Cooper)

Popular rapper That Mexican OT returning to Beaumont in August

News Staff
Wednesday, June 18, 2025
Popular rapper That Mexican OT has announced a new tour - "That Mexican OT Recess Tour" - which begins in August and will include a Beaumont date Saturday, Aug. 30, at Doggett Ford Park Exhibit Hall at 7 p.m. Also on the Beaumont date are performers RNB FOEMOB and Drodi.
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8-liner games inundate Beaumont

Barbara Davis
Monday, June 16, 2025
Visible action has been enacted in recent weeks to quell the prevalence of illegal activity allegedly taking shape in Southeast Texas “game rooms,” venues akin to mini casinos, packed with 8-liner machines and suspected illicit gambling.
Chester Moore at the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy in North Chatham, Massachusetts.

Chester Moore at the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy in North Chatham, Massachusetts.

Great whites in the Gulf

Chad Cooper
Thursday, June 12, 2025
“You’re going to need a bigger boat,” said Roy Scheider as Chief Brody in the iconic thriller, “Jaws.” Released in 1975, the Steven Spielberg film created an instant fear of sharks as beachgoers saw them as aggressive, man-eating predators.
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