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Byron Jones, 26, was killed on the job Friday after getting caught in a tire shredder in northeast Harris County.

A Beaumont man was arrested Monday night for alleged involvement in a shooting that injured two people.

Ruby Robinson is ready to come home.
For three months after Harvey, she carried the denial letter from her insurance company everywhere she went, hoping she would run into someone who could help while she waited to hear from Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Robinson is scheduled to return to her house in Nome this week.
"I'm so glad, if I could jump I would," she said Tuesday, joking that she would happily sleep in a tent in the yard for the next two nights until repairs are complete.

Beaumont Police are investigating a fatal shooting in the 1100 block of Church Street.

Since Super Bowl I in 1967 to now, Southeast Texas has sent 26 players to football's biggest stage.
Click through the gallery above to see all 26.

Former White House chief of staff Andrew Card will speak in March at the Texas Energy Museum's Blowout 2018, the museum announced on Tuesday.
The annual scholarship event is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. March 22 at the Beaumont Civic Center.
Card, who served in the Reagan administration and was chief of staff to President George W. Bush, is remembered for whispering the news about the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorists attacks in Bush's ear while the president was reading to children in a Florida classroom.
Card is now a Union Pacific Corporation board member and a NBC News contributor.

A former Hardin County judge candidate who is accused of aggravated perjury will go to trial in Jefferson County after his latest appeal was rejected.

A Silsbee man was arrested at a Beaumont UPS store Monday when he tried to pick up a package of fentanyl.