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The Port Neches-Groves High School student who set off a flare during the Mid-County Madness football game on Friday has been suspended from school indefinitely, his mother said Monday. The freshman, his mother and his father went to a meeting at the high school early Monday morning to discuss the incident. She said the minimum punishment the district is considering is assignment to an alternative campus for an undetermined length of time. The maximum penalty would be expulsion. The district does not have a timetable for making a decision, she said.

Port Arthur City Manager Brian McDougal resigned Monday night after more than two hours of private discussion with the City Council about unspecified concerns with his work.

The Newton County Sheriff's Office will pay $400 in restitution to owners of guns whose weapons were destroyed while their cases were still pending.
Sheriff Billy Rowles said in July that his predecessor, Eddie Shannon, destroyed evidence in at least three open cases before he left office in December 2016. Those cases were dismissed after Rowles took office in January.
"I assume that they were dismissed because the evidence was destroyed," Rowles said.

Marvin Mott has a notebook full of names of people who have traveled from around Texas and Louisiana to his shop in Spurger, 45 miles north of Beaumont, on a frequently fervent, quest. Tucked away in the small town along pine-embraced Farm Road 92, Mott's Texas Knives and Collectibles has become a destination for knife collectors. It's one of the reasons Spurger was declared the Knife Capital of Texas in a resolution sponsored by state lawmakers James White and Robert Nichols and signed by Gov. Greg Abbott.