Beaumont News

Demolition has begun on more than 100 houses in west Jefferson County damaged by 2008's Hurricane Ike.

A teenager crashed his homemade four wheeler into a car and paramedics had to pull him out from beneath the vehicle before they could take him to a hospital.

A man who tried to hook a woman up to a dog collar attached to a heavy chain in his wall will serve 45 years in state prison for aggravated kidnapping, an Orange County jury decided Wednesday.

Beaumont Fire Captain David Chesser is in ICU at an Omaha, Nebraska hospital. Chesser was diagnosed with mesothelioma, a rare form of cancer.

Two train cars weighing more than 100 tons have derailed in Newton County, blocking a major intersection in the area.

A woman died at a Beaumont nightclub early Saturday morning. Police tell KFDM the 34 year old woman was dancing at Cue's Nightclub on Concord when she collapsed.

Tracy Byrd's brand of new traditionalist country made him a star in the '90s, particularly his playful, good-time party singalongs .

Relatives of a slain sailor are calling the 29-year-old's death a hate crime. Rose Roy of Beaumont said her nephew, Navy Seaman August Provost III, had complained a year before about being harassed for being gay.

Millions of mosquito eggs laid across southern Texas after Hurricane Ike hit the coast last summer are waiting for the little bit of rain and hot summer days they need to hatch.

Known as one of the premier rock venues in Southeast Texas, the Scout Bar will offer something a little different for music fans later this summer.

KFDM News has learned a Beaumont police officer indefinitely suspended for his actions during a prostitution sting last year will return to work on July 6. Lt.

The City of Beaumont has given people a chance to test ride new cleaner-burning buses that were put into service Wednesday.

A businessman is making history as the first African American president of the Beaumont Rotary Club.

In April, the Southeast Texas Record reported that the Beaumont Police Officers Association sued to stop the city of Beaumont from eliminating a high-ranking police position from its department.

South Park Middle School was scheduled for demolition this summer, but that plan could change if the efforts of one local organization succeed.

Eighty street gang members, including members of the notorious Mara Salvatrucha, were arrested during a five-day sweep through Houston, Beaumont, and Corpus Christi, U.S. Immigration officials said Tuesday.

A 5-year-old girl is learning how to walk again, after a near drowning in the Neches River 2 weeks ago.

At the same time his wife was calling police to report him missing, a man police said suffers from Alzheimer's was hit by an oncoming motorist on the Eastex Freeway.

From U.S. Attorney's Office United States Attorney John M. Bales announced today that a federal inmate has pleaded guilty to Second Degree Murder and has been sentenced to twenty-eight years in federal prison for his role in the May 7, 2005 murder of another federal prisoner while they were incarcerated in the United States Penitentiary in Beaumont ...

Supporters of the historic Hotel Beaumont in downtown are continuing their efforts to restore the building.