Don the Beachcomber helped launch wave of Polynesian restaurants

05/04/11 Donn Beach prepares to board a Pan Am aircraft en route to Hawaii and Tahiti in 1953. Beach, born Ernest Gantt, conjured up the South Seas at his Don the Beachcomber restaurants.

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Living Dangerously in Big D

05/03/11 According to the New York Times, Dallas is no place for the faint of heart.

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Police chase caught on tape (newscast version)

05/03/11 Jefferson County S.O. pulled over this speedster in a BMW. This chase across Beaumont was caught on tape by cameras in a Jefferson County Sheriff's patrol unit.

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Rotary Sunrise Duathlon a success

04/27/11 Beneath blue skies with lots of sunshine, the 15th Opelousas Rotary Sunrise Duathlon was contested on April 10 upon the outlying roads of Opelousas. The event saw a sizeable crowd as over 140 triathletes from Louisiana, Texas, Alabama and California ran and biked in the competition.

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Shelter serving Jasper women

04/26/11 share: digg facebook twitter According to Dr. Alvin Williams, who is the Community Education Director for Family Services of Southeast Texas and a psychologist, In the state of Texas alone in 2009, 134 women were killed at the hands of their spouse. "Whitcomb also said, "We've had it for eight years in Beaumont, it is like a 98 percent success rate for those that finish the course that they don ...

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Fans roar for idols of metal at Big 4 fest

04/25/11 Frank Bello (left) and Joey Belladonna of Anthrax perform Saturday. / Marilyn Chung, The Desert Sun The Big 4 lived up to their billing.

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In the aftermath of the arrest

04/21/11 Former substitute teacher Kimberly Fleming-McBeth of Beaumont is trying to put her professional life back together after being arrested last year in a case in which she was never prosecuted.

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Stars shine at Flying Tiger Invitational

04/19/11 THREE-EVENT CHAMPION: San Jacinto High School's Immanuel Hutchinson leads a group of runners as he races for the finish line in the 400-meter dash Saturday.

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White Wizzard, Forbidden, Revocation and Havok Tour

04/14/11 White Wizzard are hitting the North American road with Forbidden, Revocation and Havok

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CSS Return With La Liberaci?n

04/13/11 The party-starting Brazilian new wavers CSS are back with the follow-up to 2008's Donkey . On August 29, they'll release the new album La Liberaci?n on V2 / Cooperative / Downtown -- their first for that umbrella of labels after releasing two albums on Sub Pop. The band recorded La Liberaci?n in their own Sao Paolo studio, and it includes collaborations with Ratatat and Primal Scream frontman ...

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Local sports wrap-up

04/11/11 Twenty-three local runners, competing among over 20,000 runners that started in the Los Angeles Marathon back on March 20, completed the full course. The 23 runners came from the Banning, Beaumont and Cherry Valley areas. Some 19,887 runners finished the marathon.

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U.S. Open Wrestling Championships Results

04/09/11 3rd - CC Weber, Colorado Springs, Colo. ( Sunkist Kids) dec. Erin Golston , Marquette, Mich. ( New York Athletic Club ), 5-0,1-0 5th - Victoria Anthony , Huntington, Calif. (New York Athletic Club) dec.

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Special run for Olympic champs

04/08/11 Special Olympics athlete Shailah Brousseau (CQ) works out on the uneven horizontal bars with Coach John Hayes at Cartwheels Gymnastics in Murrieta on March 23, 2011. The 16-year-old Beaumont High School student will give a speech about the meaning of Special Olympics at the start and at the end of the Central Riverside County Law Enforcement Torch Run. She will take part in the run on Saturday ...

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Jazz Recordings Among the 25 New Additions to National Recording Registry

04/08/11 Every year the Library of Congress, in accordance with the National Recording Preservation Act of 2000, selects 25 recordings to be preserved for posterity. The criteria for selection are both specific and general enough to produce a diversity that would astound just about any record collector.

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OUTDOORS: Weekly fishing report, April 7

04/06/11 The fish report is weekly. Its accuracy depends on marina operators, tackle shops and local fishermen we contact. Anglers catching large fish should send the information to Outdoor News Service, P.O. Box 9007, San Bernardino, CA 92427, or telephone 909-887-3444, so it can be included in this report. Faxes can be sent to 909-887-8180. E-Mail messages or fishing reports can also be posted to Jim ...

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Schools turn to breakfast to boost academics

04/03/11 For third-grader Viviana Marin, getting to school on time used to mean skipping breakfast. "When you're in a hurry, it doesn't give you time to eat and stuff," the 9-year-old said. On a recent Friday, though, she nibbled on an egg and sausage frittata at her desk just after the 8 a.m. school bell rang.

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Stark Museum of Art welcomes Dr. Dewey Mosby for lecture and reception

04/02/11 Dr. Dewey Mosby, a renowned art historian and native of Orange, Texas, will give an illustrated lecture about artist Henry Ossawa Tanner on April 26, 2011 at 6:30 p.m. at the Lutcher Theater, 707 W. Main Avenue.

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Tseng surges into lead at Kraft Nabisco golf

04/02/11 Defending champion Yani Tseng surged into the lead at the Kraft Nabisco Championship firing a third-round 66 to move two shots ahead of Stacy Lewis in the first women's major of the year.

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Fund set up for officer from Beaumont killed in desert

03/26/11 Investigators said it could take months to determine what caused a Cathedral City police officer to lose control of his squad car and crash during a high speed pursuit last Friday.

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Sewery at California: rigorous as never

03/12/11 When Allan Sloan hired a plumber to get to the bottom of his chronic plumbing problems, he discovere...
 

Big discounts for '10 foreclosure buyers

02/25/11 The gap between the average sale price of a foreclosed home and that of other properties grew wider ...
 

U.S. Open Wrestling Championships Results

04/23/10 At Cleveland Men Greco-Roman Quarterfinals All weights in pounds 121 Spenser Mango, St. Louis, Mo. (New York AC) dec. David Armstrong, Cleveland, Ohio (Cleveland WC), 6-0, 4-0 Nikko Triggas, Moraga, Calif. (Ohio Regional Training Center) pin Nate Engel, St. Helena, Calif. (Sunkist Kids), 2-1, 0:13 Jermaine Hodge, Colorado Springs, Colo. (U.S. Army) inj. dft. over Abraham Evans, Dover, Pa ...

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