Beaumont News

Calvin Walker, center, takes a his place on the front row during the BISD board meeting, in which the group discussed Walker's contract with the district on Tuesday, June 18, 2013.

A federal magistrate in Beaumont on Tuesday accepted the plea from 70-year-old Terrence Ewing Syler.

Willie Mae's, a soul food restaurant on Fannett Road in Beaumont, is the June 13 restaurant of the week.

While some parts of Texas are experiencing dense-bee populations, Southeast Texas bee farmers say the pollinating plant producers are showing a low turnout this year.

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A Beaumont orthodontist on Tuesday pleaded guilty to health care fraud, according to information provided by U.S. Attorney John Bales ' office.

So it seems that the Beaumont Enterprise , one of the newspapers in the Beaumont, TX, area, runs profiles of notable locals on occasion.

Beaumont police officers are searching for a mentally-challenged woman who left her home Monday afternoon and has not returned.

The Supreme Court barred the required reading of Bible passages in public schools this day in 1963, as new race protests were scheduled in Maryland.

A mistrial has been declared after a 10-day break in the trial of a Beaumont man accused of shooting his girlfriend to death last year.

Beaumont artist Randy Welborn featured Pig Stand #41 on the front of their menu.

An exhibition of Beaumont man Keith CarterA A A s early work is currently on display at the Museum of the Gulf Cost in Port Arthur, located at 700 Procter Street in Port Arthur.

A bloody and deadly race riot in the midst of World War II underscored that there were divisions at home that needed to be addressed as well as threats from enemies overseas.

In his early 20's Ruble came to the United States and started working as a bus boy at a restaurant.

The Beaumont Police Department says one man is in custody following an aggravated robbery that led to a high speed chase through the city's north end.

Beaumont pastor is one of People Magazine's '5 Coolest Dads' Beaumont Enterprise Copyright 2013 Beaumont Enterprise.

We sympathize with Beaumont ISD teachers who are dismayed with a proposal that they start paying $69 a month for health insurance, a benefit currently covered in full by the school district.

A line of showers and thunderstorms associated with the sea breeze are pushing through Tyler, Jasper, and Newton counties as of 7 pm.

Sabrina Batten held her 7-year-old daughter Kaylee tight Saturday morning, as she looked at her north Beaumont home that was crippled by a suspected drunk driver.

The Freedom From Religious Foundation has sent a letter to a Texas public school district saying it violated the constitution when a principal led students and parents in prayer before a kindergarten graduation.