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Bernie Sanders .. if you get paid a couple hundred thousand dollars for a speech, it must be a great speech. I think we should release it and let the American people see what that transcript was." Of course Hillary Clinton is not only refusing to release the transcripts, while claiming to be the most transparent modern politician, but her arrangement for those speeches required video to be pulled once the campaign began.

A mob of gleeful onlookers laughed at and mocked a cop lying unconscious on the ground after he was hurled from a speeding car while trying to arrest a woman in Texas early Friday, disturbing video shows. The video from Beaumont first shows a woman running across a parking lot and hopping into an open convertible, chased by a police officer. When the officer tries to leap into the car’s back seat to stop her, the woman hits the gas, sending the cop flying head-first into the pavement. As the officer — who suffered a serious head injury, authorities said...

The man who drove a truck into a crowd of New Year's Day revelers in New Orleans was part of a Muslim community in Houston with a scary history of hard-line Islamism, DailyMail.com can reveal. Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, a Texas-born US citizen and Army veteran, rammed the crowd in the French Quarter, killing 14 and injuring dozens more, after declaring his support for ISIS. He was killed in a shootout with police. The FBI has probed Jabbar's ties to ISIS and hunted for potential accomplices. One focus is his Muslim immigrant community in northern Houston, and nearby mosque Masjid Bilal,...

The terrorist who killed 15 people when he plowed his truck down crowded Bourbon Street in New Orleans was an American-born military veteran who was living in a run-down trailer park where he kept sheep and goats in the yard — just blocks away from the local mosque. -snip- Jabbar lived in a squalid trailer park on the outskirts of Houston that is home to mostly Muslim immigrants. Geese, chickens, and sheep roamed freely in Jabbar’s yard when The Post visited hours after the attack. One neighbor told The Post she spoke only Urdu, Pakistan’s national language. The neighborhood is...

BEAUMONT - Sources close to the private fundraiser held for Hillary Clinton in Beaumont Wednesday afternoon tell 12News it raised hundreds of thousands of dollars. Some estimates put the amount collected at half-a-million dollars, making it one of the top five private fundraisers Clinton has had in this country. Pakistani businessman Tahir Javed hosted the reception for Clinton at this home in West Beaumont. Former U.S. Representative Nick Lampson, who attended the event, says 250 people were there. Lampson says Clinton spoke about education, healthcare and individual freedoms for people of all backgrounds and faiths. Many of the Pakistanis at...

The twisted driver who massacred pedestrians celebrating the New Year on a New Orleans street and died in a shootout with police has been identified. Shamsud Din Jabbar, 42, a U.S citizen, drove a rental truck brandishing an ISIS flag into the crowd on Bourbon Street, killing at least 15 people and injuring dozens. He was killed by cops after he exited his vehicle and started shooting. The electric-vehicle-driving terrorist - who the FBI believes did not work alone on the horrifying attack - grew up in Texas and served in the U.S. Army. Jabbar worked for white-collar Deloitte as...

The suspect accused of mowing down a crowd of New Year's revelers on Bourbon Street in New Orleans early Wednesday has been identified as Shamsud Din Jabbar, Fox News Digital has confirmed.

Local Media, Charlie Kirk and others are reporting the name of the New Orleans Terrorist Attack, sound likes a good Irish Catholic Young Man to me.... The Suspect in the New Orleans massacre identified as 42-year-old Shamsud Din Jabbar. He was found with an ISIS flag by authorities. Let's recap, crossed the Mexican Border 2 days ago, rented a Ford F-150 Lightning, rents AirBnB in New Orleans and plows thru the crowd on Bourbon Street and the FBI assures us, it's not a terrorist attack.

A snake fell out of the sky and landed on a woman mowing her yard. The bizarre incident didn’t stop there. Peggy Jones was then attacked by a hawk. Jones was on her tractor mowing at her home in Silsbee, near Beaumont on Tuesday afternoon. She describes how suddenly a snake fell on her, wrapping around her arm. “The snake was squeezing so hard, and I was waving my arms in the air. And then, this hawk was swooping down clawing at my arm over and over,” explains Peggy Jones. “I just kept saying, ‘Help me, Jesus, Help me, Jesus.’’

Longtime Democratic state Rep. Ryan Guillen of Rio Grande City is switching parties as Republicans press to make new inroads in South Texas and after redistricting made his district much more favorable to the GOP. Guillen was set to make the announcement Monday morning during a news conference in Floresville where he was joined by Gov. Greg Abbott and House Speaker Dade Phelan, R-Beaumont. "After much consideration and prayer with my family, I feel that my fiscally conservative, pro-business, and pro-life values are no longer in-step with the Democrat Party of today, and I am proudly running as a Republican...

A new study published by Beaumont Health finds that COVID-19 vaccines prevent serious illness, hospitalizations and death. The study, published Thursday in the open access Lancet Regional Health journal, observed over 11,000 adult patients at Beaumont hospitals who visited emergency rooms between Dec. 15, 2020, and April 30, 2021, due to COVID infection, identifying patients who were unvaccinated, partially vaccinated and fully vaccinated. The study found that COVID-19 hospitalization rates were 91% lower in fully vaccinated people compared to those who were unvaccinated. Officials say that emergency room visits among fully vaccinated people peaked at 1.29 visits per 100,000 vaccinated...

The nail salon Beaumont Mayor Becky Ames visited this week in spite of a standing shutdown order due to the coronavirus outbreak is now under state investigation. The Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation said the agency has received at least three formal complaints against The Nail Bar and “many, many, many” more complaints on its Facebook page, spokeswoman Tela Mange said in confirming the investigation to The Enterprise. The department issues permits required for nail salons and other service businesses. The Texas Attorney General’s Office later Thursday declined to confirm or deny whether it is pursuing an investigation into...

Four federal prison inmates have been charged after law enforcement say they repeatedly escaped prison only to return each time with contraband. The men, 34-year-old Julian Lemus, Robert Young, 45, Leo Martinez, 25, and 35-year-old Silvstre Rico were nabbed by U.S. Marshals last week as they escaped from the Beaumont Federal Correctional Institute complex in Texas, according to the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office. Marshals said that they began surveillance after “repeated reports” of prisoners continuing to escape and bring back contraband such as whiskey and cellphones into the complex, which houses both low- and medium-security inmates. “Investigators observed 4 males...

Minutes after their wedding ceremony, a young Texas couple was killed in a car collision as they were leaving the courthouse, CNN affiliate KFDM reported. Harley Morgan, 19, and Rhiannon Boudreaux, 20, were killed in the town of Orange, more than 20 miles east of Beaumont, Texas. They pulled out of the parking lot and were merging onto Highway 87 when their car collided with a pickup truck that was towing a trailer loaded with a tractor, the Orange Police Department said in a statement. The newlyweds were leaving an Orange County Justice of the Peace precinct after their marriage ceremony, Lt....

Tocqueville: on America, Algeria, & How "despotism" of "all powerful government" comes when citizens "debase" their souls seeking "vulgar pleasures"Alexis de Tocqueville was born JULY 29, 1805. A French social scientist, he traveled the United States in 1831, and wrote a two-part work, Democracy in America (1835; 1840), which has been described as: "the most comprehensive and penetrating analysis of the relationship between character and society in America that has ever been written." In it, Tocqueville wrote: "Upon my arrival in the United States the religious aspect of the country was the first thing that struck my attention; and the...

Voters elected Stephens in November of 2016. She is the first female African-American sheriff in Texas... KFDM confirms with the Chambers County Sheriff's Office the indictment of Sheriff Zena Stephens of Jefferson County on one State Jail Felony count of Tampering with a Government Record, related to campaign contributions, and two misdemeanor charges. Two other candidates for sheriff in the race Stephens won in 2016 were also indicted on misdemeanor charges. According to a copy of the indictments obtained by KFDM/Fox 4, the contributions in question to each came from Larry Tillery, a Beaumont car dealer under federal investigation following...

BEAUMONT, Texas (KFDM) - The City of Beaumont has lost its water supply throughout the city due to Harvey floodwaters causing the Neches River to flood the city's pump station, according to Beaumont Fire-Rescue Capt. Brad Pennison. In the next three to four hours, the City of Beaumont will be without water until repairs can be made. Workers will have to wait for water to recede to determine the damage before repairs can be made, Pennison said. Therefore, there is no way at this time to determine how soon repairs can be made.

BEAUMONT — If you have a gun, you could receive a $100 gift card from a group of churches and community leaders teaming up to stop violence in Beaumont. Pastors John Adolph and Randy Feldschau developed a program called "Not in My City" last summer in response to violence against officers. Following four homicides in Beaumont in June alone, the program is trying to stop violence here through a gun "buy back" program. A meeting about the gun buy back program will be held Monday at 11 a.m. at the Cathedral Church, off Eastex. They're in the process of choosing...

A pregnant mother expecting her second child was shot dead by a trio of robbers as she returned home from a doctor's appointment. Kera Teel, who was seven months pregnant, was in a car with her mother when two men walked up to the vehicle and opened fire. Her unborn daughter, who she and husband Andrew had decided to name Kyndal Jae, was delivered at hospital but died as a result of the attack.

Talks have been bubbling in recent months about making major route changes to Interstate 14, but the primary organization behind the push says it’s facing resistance from a West Texas representative and the state’s senior senator. Regional transportation lobby group Midland-Odessa Transportation Alliance (MOTRAN) has pushed to change the congressionally approved western route of I-14, also known as the Forts to Ports Highway and the Gulf Coast Strategic Highway System. Forts to Ports aims to connect Fort Bliss in El Paso with Fort Hood in Central Texas and Fort Polk in Louisiana. The plan also connects to military deployment ports...