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Sports shorts: WO-S football

The National Football Foundation recognized Demetrius Hunter as a member of the 2022 Team of Distinction along with 81 other high school scholar-athletes from around the nation. Hunter, who graduated earlier this year, had a 4.30 GPA and was a team captain as well as an Under Armour All-American.

Sports Shorts: NBA basketball

Port Arthur Memorial great Kenneth Lofton Jr. signed a professional two-way contract with the Memphis Grizzlies after going undrafted in last week’s NBA Draft. Lofton, 6-foot-7 and 275 pounds, averaged 16.5 points and 10.5 rebounds person game his sophomore season at Louisiana Tech.

Remembering: Ernest Gerhardt Schluter, Jr.

Ernest Gerhardt Schluter, Jr., 78, of Beaumont, passed away on Sunday, June 26, 2022, after a courageous battle with pancreatic cancer. Ernest is predeceased by his parents, Ernest Gerhardt Schluter, Sr. and Bertha Krueger Schluter; brother, Marvin Ray Schluter and son, Steven Ray Schluter.

Celebrating with safe streets

The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) Texas Highway Patrol will be initiating two traffic safety campaigns during the holiday weekend looking for people violating traffic laws from Friday, July 1, through Monday, July 4.

Lumberton ISD hires new safety director

Thomas “Tim” Lane has been hired as new Director of Safety, Security and Student Services for Lumberton ISD, according to a June 22 press release from district officials.

Texas man accused of impersonating a hero

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Lumberton PD reports arrests

The Lumberton Police Department reported a 43-year-old man was arrested on multiple drug charges last week.

Name released in Orange homicide

Saturday, June 25, at about 10:30 a.m., Orange Police Department officers were dispatched to Interstate 10, just east of Highway 62, in reference to a white male with a gunshot wound. The victim was identified at the scene as 28-year-old Chase James Miller of Orange.

Fugitive killed after Beaumont sighting

After Mont Belvieu police announced a man as a suspect in the murder of his estranged wife, officers in near the Texas-Mexico border found the man dead after he was hit by a truck on Highway 77 in Harlingen.

Chambers County catches catalytic criminals

Chambers County Sheriff’s Office (CCSO) deputies arrested four men they say stole a pair of catalytic converters from the Chick-fil-A across from Buc-ee’s in Baytown Sunday, June 26. On June 26, at about 4 p.m.