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Two of Beaumont ISD's trustees will be seated and the transition process to hand off the district to an elected board will begin immediately, the Texas Education Agency announced.

The alert was accidentally sent out and was supposed to only be a test.

The Beaumont man accused of murder in a shooting at a car wash last month was arrested in Houston this morning, Beaumont Police announced.

In an attempt to clean up all the plastic bottles, Styrofoam cups, tires and mattresses littering Beaumont's highways and nearly 4,000 empty lots, city officials are considering taking over their cleanup at a cost of up to $250,000 a year.
At a work session last week, city council members said Beaumont's trash problem along Interstate 10 and U.S. 69 likely keeps visitors from stopping here.
The Texas Department of Transportation is responsible for maintaining the grassy areas along the two highways but only mows the areas about three times each year, City Manager Kyle Hayes said.

A man accused of stealing more than $200,000 from investors in 2010 for projects in Port Arthur that were never built is in court this week for a long-awaited trial on three felony charges.