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Crime News: Week of Jan. 6

Convenience store criminal sentenced A Beaumont man has been sentenced to prison for federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston on Jan. 4. Moses Ray Rhine, Jr., 21, pleaded guilty on Aug.

News Shorts: Week of Jan. 6

Class of COVID Beaumont Independent School District (BISD) administration is eyeing the start of 2022 Spring Semester with its sights set on academics, as well as the COVID-19 Omicron variant, as classes resumed for students and staff on Jan. 3.

Good News: Week of Jan. 6

Baby New Year Meet Hendrix, the first baby born at CHRISTUS Southeast Texas St. Elizabeth in 2022! Hendrix was born to joyful parents Alex and Ashley at 7:21 a.m. on Jan. 1, weighing 8 pounds and measuring 20 and a quarter inches long. Hendrix was delivered by CHRISTUS Southeast Texas physician Dr.

New partnership, new name for CHRISTUS facility

Patients across Southeast Texas will soon become familiar with a new name in health care: CHRISTUS Trinity Clinic.

Philanthropic foundation feeds hospital staff

Thanks to a “generous” donation from the Wayne A. Reaud Charitable  Foundation, more than 150 food service, housekeeping and laundry employees of Beaumont Baptist Hospital received “massive” turkeys and three boxes of sides Wednesday, Dec. 22, according to a hospital representative.

CDC advisors recommend COVID booster for teens

According to vaccine experts advising the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), children 12 to 15 should receive a COVID-19 booster shot. A full CDC endorsement is still pending approval from the organization’s director.

Orange to get new medical campus

NexCore Group and CHRISTUS Southeast Texas Health System recently announced plans to begin the initial development phase of the Gisela Houseman Medical Campus (GHMC). Phase I will be a two-story, 55,000-square-foot medical office building (MOB) in Orange.

IRS sends info about recouping advanced credits

Just days shy of Christmas, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced that information letters to Advance Child Tax Credit recipients began being mailed in December, and recipients of the third round of the Economic Impact Payments should start seeing mail at the end of January.

Editorial update: BISD bankrollees still in court

Although the state of Texas intervened and halted the rampant embezzlement and mismanagement documented at the Beaumont Independent School District in 2014 with a Texas Education Agency takeover, actors accused of pilfering the taxpayer coffers – or facilitating its occurrence – are still in court...