Port Arthur News

President Obama "is focused like a laser on putting people back to work," Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz assured us last fall - echoing repeated statements by President Obama and Administration officials who "can't wait" for Congress or others to take action and create jobs.

Chicago cash gasoline differentials plunged sharply on Friday on waning interest in robust supply of winter-grade fuels, traders said.

Another major poll has confirmed that American voters across the political spectrum welcome clean energy development.

Valero Energy Corp Chief Executive Bill Klesse said on Thursday the company expects global demand for distillates to grow about 2 percent in 2012 while gasoline demand will increase by 1 percent.

A Jefferson County grand jury indicted Charles Ray Moss, 20, on an aggravated assault with a deadly weapon charge and Mark Anthony Alexis Jr., 31, on an aggravated assault charge.

Two men have been indicted in connection with the death of a man whose body was found along the Intracostal Waterway last December.

The Jefferson County grand jury has indicted two suspects on murder charges after a man was thrown off a bridge and killed.

Two Jefferson County men are jailed in Orange County following the robbery of a Bridge City convenience store.

A man was arrested Wednesday afternoon after reportedly stealing purses from women at both Walgreens and Walmart in Port Arthur, according to information from the Port Arthur police department.

A man is jailed following two purse snatchings in Port Arthur. Police were called to the Walgreen's on Highway 365 where they were told a woman had her pursed grabbed.

Millions of folks reply on natural gas to heat their homes and light up their stoves and ovens.

Motiva Enterprises' 285,000 barrel per day Port Arthur, Texas, refinery returned a gasoline-producing fluidic catalytic cracking unit, an alkylation unit and a hydrocracking unit to production on Wednesday following a Tuesday power outage, sources familiar with refinery operations said.

U.S. crude futures rose to around $99 a barrel on Thursday, gaining for a third consecutive day, as hopes for a Greece debt deal helped offset the impact of rising U.S. oil inventories.

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While the US Senate is debating a bill that would revive the moribund Keystone XL pipeline while limiting legal challenges to the route, Joe Nocera of the New York Times published an ill considered OpEd today that shows he understands neither the risks nor the economics of tar sands oil.

President Obama "is focused like a laser on putting people back to work," Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz assured us last fall - echoing repeated statements by President Obama and Administration officials who "can't wait" for Congress or others to take action and create jobs.

Motiva Enterprises' 285,000-barrels-per-day Port Arthur, Texas, refinery was hit by a brief power interruption on Tuesday morning, according to sources familiar with refinery operations.

An employee of the Port Arthur Wal-Mart received what is described by police as "minor bumps and bruises" after a scuffle with a teenage shoplifter.

Police say shortly after 4:00 p.m. Sunday Wal-Mart loss prevention personnel at the Twin City Highway Supercenter tried to stop two Port Arthur brothers, one 17-years-old and the other 11-years-old, from leaving the store without paying for merchandise.

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