Bill Leger @ July 30, 2010 # Comments Off
This week’s restaurant report card comes to us from the Beaumont Health Department.
This week flies, mold and an employee with an eyebrow ring are on the list of health code violations.
We’ve got the highs and lows in this edition of Leger’s…
KFDM.com Breaking News : Local News @ July 30, 2010 # Comments Off
AUSTIN - 5 Southeast Texas school districts are rated Exemplary, 20 Recognized, 8 Academically Acceptable and one charter academy is rated Academically Unacceptable, according to information released Friday afternoon by the Texas Education Agency….
Scott Lawrence @ July 30, 2010 # Comments Off
A teenager who received a heart transplant when he was two and lived life to the fullest while waiting for another donor organ has died.
Austin Hilliard was 16-years-old. The Beaumont West Brook High School student had been in a Houston hospital last…
Scott Lawrence @ July 30, 2010 # Comments Off
AUSTIN - From Texas Medical Board - On July 30, 2010, a panel of the Texas Medical Board suspended the license of Felix Nabor Sabates Jr., M.D., of Baytown, Lic. No. J2773, after determining that Dr. Sabates’ continuation in the practice of medicine…
Scott Lawrence @ July 30, 2010 # Comments Off
TYLER, Texas (AP) - An 83-year-old east Texas woman is recovering after being attacked by a pit bull mix authorities say may have been used in illegal dog fighting.
Glynda Hulsey and her two dogs were attacked as she walked to her mailbox in Smith…
Scott Lawrence @ July 30, 2010 # Comments Off
BEAUMONT - Beaumont Police are searching for a man accused of violating his parole.
The original charge against Joseph Benard Samuel, 34, of Beaumont, was burglary.
He’s 6′ and weights about 185 pounds. Samuel has black hair and brown eyes.
His last…
Scott Lawrence @ July 30, 2010 # Comments Off
MEXICO CITY (AP) - The U.S. closed its consulate in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez on Thursday pending a security review, an unexpected decision that comes months after drug gangs killed three people tied to the consulate.
The U.S. Embassy…
Amber Downing @ July 30, 2010 # Comments Off
ORANGE - A capital murder case that took 15 years to work its way to trial has ended in an acquittal, and a KFDM camera captured video of James Edward Holden emerging from jail to the cheers of waiting family and frieneds.
A jury in Orange County…
Scott Lawrence @ July 30, 2010 # Comments Off
DALLAS (AP) - A mother whose three children were found starving after being shut away in a hotel bathroom for as long as nine months changed her plea to guilty Friday, bringing her trial to a sudden end.
Abneris Santiago’s plea on the third day of…
Scott Lawrence @ July 30, 2010 # Comments Off
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - School ratings to be announced Friday by the Texas Education Agency were formulated using a measure that allows students to get credit for improvement even if they didn’t pass.
Click here after 1 p.m. to read the state…