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EDITORIAL: Tip-toeing the line

News Staff

Friday, September 20, 2024

For the second time in about as many months, Beaumont City Manager Kenneth Williams has prolonged performing his duties to the point where vital decisions would be placed on City Council members to approve or deny at the last minute.

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Former finance director faces felony theft

News Staff

Tuesday, September 17, 2024

Fired for directing finances into her own pockets, former Greater Beaumont Chamber of Commerce Director of Finance and Administration Sidnee Lewis is at the center of an investigation into reports that the former executive stole a combined amount of more than $84,000 from the Chamber and Beaumont...

White sentenced to federal prison for defrauding precious metals buyers

News Staff

Tuesday, September 17, 2024

A Beaumont man has been sentenced to federal prison and ordered to pay over $1 million in restitution for federal violations, announced the United States Court in the Eastern District of Texas.

Jefferson County approves raise for translation services

News Staff

Monday, September 16, 2024

Following the Aug.

Beaumont budget begins with $40 million flaw

Jennifer Johnson

Monday, September 16, 2024

Page one of the highlights for the proposed city of Beaumont budget that begins Oct. 1 starts off with underreporting $40 million in collected tax revenue for 2023 – skewing fund balance numbers for the three years of required budgetary reporting mandated by the city charter.

BPD Crimes Against Persons Unit

SETX Crime Stoppers presents annual awards to local honorees

Dannie Oliveaux

Thursday, September 12, 2024

Crime Stoppers of Southeast Texas Administrator/Coordinator Jeremy Raley reported a host of awards were presented during the organization’s “Back the Blue Brunch” on Aug. 29 at the MCM Elegante Hotel and Convention Center in Beaumont.

Mayor accuses council of ‘bigotry and jealousy’

News Staff

Wednesday, September 11, 2024

Port Arthur Mayor Thurman Bartie expressed intense displeasure with the City Council voting 4-3 to not approve a request for the mayor to attend additional executive education sessions during his trip to the National League of Cities’ 2024 Centennial City Summit on Nov. 10-17 in Tampa, Florida.

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Sheriff-elect taps former DPS agent as county’s chief deputy

Dannie Oliveaux

Wednesday, September 11, 2024

Jasper County Sheriff-elect Chuck Havard announced that former Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) Special Agent Larry Pulliam Jr. will join the team as chief deputy. Havard takes office Jan. 1, 2025, and is readying for the position by tapping the office’s administration.

Regina Rogers, IEA chair & founder; Mike Burrow, IEA board member; Suzanne Maloney, IEA board member; Kim Phelan, IEA president; and Linda Domino, IEA secretary

IEA Camp Bright Star celebrates

News Staff

Wednesday, September 11, 2024

IEA-Inspire, Encourage, Achieve recently hosted its 22nd Camp Bright Star (CBS) Awards Ceremony at the Martin Luther King Middle School Gymnasium to honor more than 25 scholars participating in the five-week summer program.

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Vidor sales rep accused of fraud, impacting veterans and local customers in new scam

Jennifer Johnson

Monday, September 9, 2024

Mary G. Bond, out of jail and back in the saddle of swindling her neighbors according to a Southeast Texas victim reaching out to The Examiner, is now allegedly scamming disabled veterans who have served this country in the armed forces.

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