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Texans mourn Lady Bird Johnson
Lady Bird Johnson, former first lady, in the Texas Hill Country. The Lone Star State mourned the passage of a woman close to its heart July 11 with the death of the Lady Bird Johnson, the former U.S. first lady with the green thumb. She was 94.
City of Orange files for injunction against Transtar
City leaders in Orange are so fed up with an ambulance service that is operating without a permit that they are seeking a court order to have the company cease and desist.
TB patient waives jury, agrees to stay in hospital
Lemone Yowman A Port Arthur man with tuberculosis waived a jury hearing set for Monday and agreed to remain in a hospital until his treatment is complete.
Wrecked Hyundai sold as new leads to fraud suit
Ruthie Williams and Jo Beth Byerly purchased what they believed was a new 2006 Hyundai Sonata from Philpott Motors, which had obtained the car through a dealer trade with Billy Navarre Chervolet Honda Hyundai.
Widow files $3.5 M suit against crane company
The wife of an iron worker crushed by a crane load says there is no way to determine the value of a "husband and good man," but she is seeking $3.5 million from the crane company that she claims is responsible for her husband's wrongful death.
Former Palms manager sues Pleasure Island Commission
The clubhouse of the Palms at Pleasure Island Golf Course Since it opened in 2003, the Palms at Pleasure Island Golf Course has had to deal with erosion along the greens of the back nine and recurring problems with a series of course managers. Now one of the latest management companies is taking the city of Port Arthur to court over its contract to operate the 18-hole, 72-par course.
The Record takes a holiday break from print edition
Happy Fourth of July!
Inmate used fake gun in courthouse drama
Andre David Leffebre Leading corrections officers to believe he had a gun, a federal inmate caused a shut-down of the Jefferson County Courthouse on Monday.
Inmate with gun shuts down courthouse complex
Beaumont police officers secured the Jefferson County Courthouse after an inmate with a gun held corrections officers hostage at the adjacent city jail. An inmate with a gun at the Beaumont city jail caused a tense morning at the Jefferson County Courthouse Monday.
Houston attorney indicted in multi-million dollar bribe and kickback scheme
A federal grand jury in Houston charged an attorney and two former employees of The Hartford Insurance Company with conspiracy, mail and wire fraud and the laundering of millions of dollars.
Nike has deadline to respond to Reebok's patent claim
Nike Free 5.0 Imagine going to the gym for a game of b-ball and forgetting to bring sneakers. Reebok claims it came up with an idea for a shoe that could be dispensed from a vending machine as easily as a can of soda in just such an emergency.
Recent patent/copyright infringement cases filed in U.S. District Courts
Eastern District of Texas, Tyler Division
Civil rights attorneys to be honored with statue at courthouse
In the mid-1950s, law partners Elmo Willard III and Theodore Johns Sr. sued the city of Beaumont to open its recreational facilities and libraries to blacks and then sued Lamar Tech, now Lamar University, to open its doors to black students.
Recent business licenses/assumed names June 21-27
Orig. Filing Date: 06/21/2007 Certificate #: 70878
Fourth of July events offer patriotic celebrations throughout area
Beaumont's Riverfront Park will be filled with the sights and sounds of American independence when the city celebrates the Fourth of July.
Man says hospital's decision to remove monitor led to wife's death
A Hemphill man says his wife died because hospital staff did not realize her breathing tube had fallen out, a discovery made instead by the couple's 10-year-old son.
Expert says hundreds of years of exposure needed to cause asbestos disease
After being named as a defendant with 42 other companies in a recent lawsuit, one company says it has experts that will show that the plaintiff would have to have received hundreds of years of asbestos exposure to contribute to his death.
Huntsman to sell to private company
The Huntsman Corporation announced June 26 that it will be acquired by Basell in a transaction valued at approximately $9.6 billion.
Company requests venue change for asbestos case
A company that allegedly distributed asbestos products is requesting that a recent civil suit be moved out of Jefferson County.