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A Nederland man was arrested after police found marijuana butter and leaves in his car during a traffic stop.

Our cameras were at the Budweiser Clydesdales' appearance in Beaumont on Wednesday. Did we see you there?

A former employee of a Beaumont car dealership is accused of stealing headlights valued at more than $200,000.

Citing that the Alabama-Coushatta Tribe does not follow the "gaming laws and regulations of Texas," a federal judge ruled this week to shut down the tribe's popular electronic bingo hall 90 miles north of Beaumont.
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The Budweiser Clydesdales are in town and ready for their Mardi Gras of Southeast Texas appearances this week in Port Arthur. The Colorado-based team will make a stop Wednesday at the Event Centre in Beaumont at 3 p.m.

A private forecasting company took what was intended to be a routine National Weather Service test message and sent it to Southeast Texas subscribers' phones as an official tsunami warning Tuesday morning, the latest in a spate of false alarms since last month.
AccuWeather blamed the National Weather Service for the false alarm, saying the government weather agency "miscoded" a test message as a real warning.
The National Tsunami Warning Center sent the test message around 7:30 a.m. Tuesday. Users of the popular AccuWeather app then got a false tsunami alert.