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Beaumont EMS was called "to a male complaining of a gunshot wound" early Thursday morning, according to Beaumont Fire Captain Brad Penisson.

Silsbee's Pines Theater has been permanently closed, AMC Theatres told BeaumontEnterprise.com Thursday.

Demolition crews have begun tearing down the long vacant MacArthur Drive Shopping Center in Pinehurst. The outlet, which opened in the 1950's, is known as the first shopping center in Orange. Plans to build an HEB store at the site are still in the works as to the type of store that will be built, but construction is expected to begin by late 2018.

Beaumont Police are looking for a woman they believe may have shot her husband and pushed him out of a car near 3910 Eastex Freeway.

When Marcy Engleman travels for work, she can't bring items from the office with her.
"I didn't know what would be TSA-approved for my flight as far as human remains goes," Engleman said.
Engleman, an educator with the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia, will present her "Disturbingly Informative: A Museum of Medical Mysteries" lecture at the McFaddin-Ward House's Visitors Center on Thursday.
Some of the human anatomy and medicine museum's most notable exhibits include Albert Einstein's brain, a specimen from the vertebra of President Abraham Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth and the jaw tumor

Orange Police suspect a medical issue may have caused a crash near a football practice at West Orange-Stark Middle School Tuesday.

A Beaumont man allegedly attacked two Kroger employees with a box cutter and a glass bottle of wine in an "unprovoked assault" in March.