Beaumont Enterprise

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Fourteen schools in Southeast Texas had improved test scores last year that bumped the schools up on the state's accountability rating system.

For family members and friends of James Holden, a nightmare ended Friday afternoon when Orange County District Court Judge Dennis Powell announced a “not guilty” verdict.

Bird activity was fairly light Friday on a former rice farm south of Winnie in the blazing mid-afternoon heat.

Our Seen cameras were on hand Friday night as Jack Edery & Ultrasuede played to a crowd at the Grill on Calder Avenue in Beaumont. Were you Seen?

HOUSTON, Texas - The Federal Aviation Administration says a small plane got too close to a Continental jet as it was approaching George Bush Intercontinental Airport.

BEAUMONT, Texas - Austin Hilliard saw the inside of a hospital room more times than any child should.

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BEAUMONT, Texas - The Beaumont Police Department is asking for the public's help in locating a man wanted on a parole warrant.

Citing security concerns in narco-violence-torn Ciudad Juarez, the U.S. State Department is shutting down indefinitely its consulate in the border city located across from El Paso.

A Houston judge this morning set a no-cash personal bond for a man who was imprisoned 27 years for a rape he did not commit.

A mother whose three children were found starving after being shut away in a Dallas hotel bathroom for as long as nine months changed her plea to guilty Friday, bringing her trial to a sudden end.

BILOXI, Miss. - BP's incoming CEO said Friday that it's time for a "scaleback" of the massive effort to clean up the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, but he added that the commitment to make things right is the same as ever.

The Austin Motor Hotel that once stood at the corner of McFaddin Avenue and 11th Street is barely recognizable today.

First-round draft pick Sean Weatherspoon has reported for training camp after reaching an agreement on a contract with the Atlanta Falcons.

PORT ARTHUR, Texas - In other indictments Thursday, a Port Arthur man was charged in connection with an incident of flinging human feces while in jail.

Three Port Arthur men were indicted Thursday in connection with a string of armed robberies committed on an 12-day spree starting June 25.

The right lanes of eastbound and westbound Interstate 10 will be closed in Orange County today between the Bonner Turnaround and State Highway 12 until 5 p.m., according to the Texas Department of Transportation.