A group of electricians and their union filed a lawsuit against 10 contractors and two school districts, alleging the defendants did not follow prevailing wage laws when they paid the electricians.
Following a Thursday morning hearing to enter final judgment, both the Beaumont Independent School District and the Beaumont Heritage Society are contemplating appealing a local judge's ruling on the fate of South Park Middle School.
A local judge has dismissed the Beaumont Independent School District and Region 5 Education Service Center from wrongful death suits filed against them over a deadly crash in Mexico.
The Beaumont Independent School District filed a lawsuit against Employers Reinsurance Corp., claiming the corporation refuses to pay excess workers' compensation benefits to one of the district's employees.
A Jefferson County woman claims her 4-year-old grandson fears going to school after a bus driver left him stranded on the bus for more than three hours last winter.
Before he concluded a permanent injunction hearing to stop South Park Middle School from being razed, Judge Bob Wortham urged both parties to find a compromise before he ruled.
In two weeks, the Beaumont Independent School District will have an opportunity to convince appellate justices that a lower court erred in enjoining the district from razing South Park Middle School.
Forcing the Beaumont Independent School District to comply with the Texas Open Meetings Act, Jerry Jordan, editor for The Examiner, sought and received a temporary restraining order stopping the district from holding a board meeting last Thursday.
Nostalgic South Park graduates will see their former school stand for at least a few more months, as Judge Bob Wortham has granted the Beaumont Heritage Society's request for a temporary injunction.
A hearing over the future of South Park Middle School is attended by those who want to save the building as well as those who want to see it replaced. Every "intelligent tax payer" living in Beaumont should be "offended" that the school district wants to raze a structurally-sound building and replace it with a more expensive facility, said one local engineer at a recent hearing.
Local residents hoping the courts will intervene and stop the demolition of South Park Middle School will have to wait a little longer for an outcome, as a hearing on the matter slated for Tuesday, July 14, has been reset.
Citizens gathered at South Park Middle School on July 1 to protest the demolition of the 86-year-old school. The Beaumont Heritage Society filed for a temporary restraining while it works preserve the building.
Hoping to save South Park Middle School from being bulldozed, the Beaumont Heritage Society filed and obtained a temporary restraining order Wednesday, July 1.
The families of two educators killed last year when their van flipped into a ravine in Mexico have filed wrongful death suits against the school district, the driver, the maker of the van and others.
A contractor claiming he put in the lowest bid for Beaumont Independent School District's planned elementary school project is asking a judge to stop BISD from hiring a more expensive company.
The Beaumont Independent School District has been named as a defendant in a lawsuit alleging a student was sexually assaulted while walking home after a bus driver forced her off the school bus.
A Jefferson County jury found that a Beaumont Independent School District bus driver caused a collision with another automobile and ordered BISD to pay the medical expenses of the other driver.
The Beaumont Independent School District is gearing up to defend itself in court this week, as the civil trial of Tina McDaniel vs. BISD is set to begin on April 1.