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  • 2500 doping tests planned for Sochi Olympics

    MOSCOW (AP) — Sochi's anti-doping director says 2,500 drug tests will be conducted at next year's Winter Olympics, about 350 more than at the 2010 Games in Vancouver.Alexei Slautin, head of Sochi's anti-doping section, said in a statement Thursday on the Russian Sports Ministry's web site that another 600 tests are planned for the Paralympics.The World Anti-Doping ...

  • Open Meetings Act to allow video teleconferences

    AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas Legislature has amended the Open Meetings Act to allow for video teleconferences.The bill sent to the governor on Thursday would allow public officials to meet using a teleconference even if a quorum is not physically present. Supporters say the bill will bring the state's strict rules for official meetings into the modern age by allowing public ...

  • Orange Co. paves way for economic growth

    Orange County Commissioners have unanimously approved a resolution to nominate International Paper as a double jumbo enterprise project and entered into a contract with iDocket.com for the company to provide public, fee-based access to records of the district and county clerk ...

  • To lie is to steal

    Is BISD a victim in this woman’s plot or should they be held accountable for not verifying Lambert’s credentials before passing over many others who might have been twice as qualified as she? Every student, parent, teacher and educator should contact Superintendent Timothy Chargois and the BISD board immediately and express - no, demand - that this fraud be heralded as a lie and ask ...

  • 40-year sentence in Beaumont murder

    Deanna Edwards Wilson, 41, was indicted for the murder of Elkin Savoy, 58, whose body was found Monday, Nov. 14, 2011, burned and maimed as a result of an apparent ...

Movie Review

Alex & Emma

Alex & Emma

The ads for Alex & Emma, both in print and on television, proudly declare that it comes to us from Rob Reiner, the director of When Harry Met Sally, but dont be fooled. For every bit that the latter is a warm, engaging, funny, and knowing exploration of modern romance, the former is an awkward, trite, manufactured romantic comedy that is not particularly romantic or funny. If the ad ... ...

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  • End of an era at OHA

    After nearly a decade at the Orange Housing Authority (OHA), president of the board of commissioners Mary McKenna has moved on to greener pastures, now representing taxpayers as a member of the Orange City Council instead. During the last few years of her tenure at OHA, McKenna has seen the departure of two executive directors; one was let go rather than outright fired after a report from ...

  • Texas painter immortalizes fallen soldiers

    Some artists paint to express themselves or as a form of therapy- to get out feelings trapped inside. Others use art as a path to immortality, using their works to carry on their own names. Ken Pridgeon paints to immortalize others - fallen soldiers who not only fought and died for their country, but were also mothers, fathers, wives, husbands, daughters and sons mourned by their families. On ...

  • Lunch at the ranch

    A group including local politicians, business and community leaders, and Jefferson County sheriff’s deputies welcomed the consul general of Qatar, Faisal Abdulla Al-Henzab, to the ranch of former Jefferson County judge and business consultant Carl Griffith on Friday, May 17, to celebrate the blooming friendship and business relationship between Qatar and Jefferson ...

  • Plants can keep mosquitos at bay

    Well … most everyone has them but no one likes them. Mosquitoes have been around forever, and will probably be here for a while longer. What can you do to cut down on your mosquito population? In addition to tips to keep areas dry, certain plants can be added to our yard that those pesky mosquitoes don’t like. They don’t like them at ...

  • How important is reading and remembering

    While talking to a young man the other day about the Lord and His work, we each spoke about reading the Bible. I was interested to hear the very well educated fellow say, "It doesn’t really do me any good to read the Bible or go to church. I just can’t seem to remember very much of it any time later." He’s in good company. Well, perhaps not good company, but joined by ...

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