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Our cameras were at the Chambers House Christmas open house on Thursday evening. Did we see you there?

Beaumont ISD's decision on the future of Central High School hinges on cost estimates and insurance payments for the Old Town campus, where leaks and mold continue to be an ongoing issue, Superintendent John Frossard said Thursday.

Port Arthur Police Chief Patrick Melvin is one of six finalists for St. Louis Police Chief, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Fifth and eighth grade students in Southeast Texas school districts who fail their math and reading STAAR tests twice will still be able to move to the next grade this year, under a waiver announced by the Texas Education Agency Thursday.

A City of Port Arthur employee was found guilty on Thursday of theft by a public servant for stealing metal from the city.
Joseph Soliz, who was Port Arthur's water utilities distribution maintenance supervisor, was sentenced to five years probation, according to his defense attorney, James Makin.
Soliz, 57, was indicted in March 2016 on six third degree felony counts of theft of metal by a public servant for stealing copper from the city between 2013 and 2015.
The Jefferson County District Attorney's Office said in 2016 that Soliz sold about 8 tons of city-owned metal to a Beaumont scrap yar

A former City of Port Arthur employee was found guilty on Thursday of theft by a public servant for stealing metal from the city.