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Young job seekers should find summer work easier to come by Beaumont Enterprise Copyright 2013 Beaumont Enterprise.

Imagine Republican fat cats who want President Obama to say yes to the Keystone XL pipeline taking oil from Canada to Port Arthur, Texas.

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An employee of the Scalco Food Store in Port Arthur said an early morning fire damaged the store's entire inventory.

The Woodlands Financial Group's TWFG Insurance Services division has named 20 as outstanding performers and producers for the year 2012, the company announced.

Air Products is now operating a Department of Energy demonstration project that will capture about 1 million tons of carbon dioxide in an enhanced oil recovery project in Texas.

A Port Arthur teen has been sentenced to six months in jail after pleading guilty to assaulting two educators on the Memorial High School campus last October.

Four southeast Texas mayors were among those to win re-election on Saturday. In Beaumont Mayor Becky Ames picked up 91% of the vote over Christopher Jones.

When it rains in southeast Texas, it pours. When the sun comes out, it get warm quick! The atmosphere decided to bale on the final round of rain today, that meant more sunshine than earlier predicted.

The time has come for the citizens of Port Arthur Texas to wake up and demand change.

Parts of Houston received only very light rain, other areas received 1 inch or more, and a small region near Magnolia Park and Gulfgate received in excess of 4 inches.

That's almost double the number opened only four years ago. Parents are terrified of the trysts with students and in Texas, it's becoming a terrible truth.

The former president of Port Arthur Chemical and Environmental Services, LLC has pleaded guilty in federal court to occupational safety crimes which resulted in the death of an employee.

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Johnny Brown has accepted an early buy-out package, which will effectively end his employment with PAISD June 30.

Triangle Tonight: Increasing cloudiness, warmer and humid. Low near: 65 in Beaumont, 64 in Orange, and 65 in Port Arthur.

This Thursday April 18, 2013, aerial photo shows a crater, bottom left, the the remains of a fertilizer plant destroyed by an explosion in West, Texas.

Asked just weeks before her death what young people were looking for, 27-year-old Janis Joplin was quick to answer: "Sincerity and a good time." It's an apt description of what Joplin repeatedly delivered from stage, and it also neatly sums up "One Night With Janis Joplin," the amazing show - created, written and directed by Randy Johnson - now in ... (more)

Carlos Efren Rodriguez , 23, is wanted on two felony aggravated assault warrants in relation to the March 29 shooting of his girlfriend's brother and uncle.

Port Arthur city hall phones down for repairs, call alternate number Beaumont Enterprise Copyright 2013 Beaumont Enterprise.