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Port Arthur native Bailey’s star continues to shine
Imagine yourself walking down the halls of Port Arthur’s Thomas Jefferson High School in 1960. Amid the hustle and bustle of the transition period, you could find yourself rubbing shoulders with a young, long-haired and smiling, yet shy senior named Janis Joplin.
VIDEO: Mike Zito’s cd ‘Today’ to be released Tuesday
Harmony Exporters celebrate birthday to tune of 45 years
Lou Knabeschuh never thought he could be part of an organization that met weekly. But 45 years after joining The Harmony Exporters, the 82-year-old still spends every Thursday night singing in the barbershop quartet chorus.
VIDEO: Under the Sea program at PA Library
Plants and animals are apart of life. Becky Valls and Company reminds us of this fact of life. This company teaches science through the art of dance.
VIDEO: Prudhomme lends a hand to Habitat home in Port Arthur
When Gloria Prudhomme dreams of the life she and her teenage daughter will have in their new Habitat for Humanity home, her mind goes to the spacious quarters.
Riverfest 2008 Video
View footage of this year's Riverfest and Thunder on the Neches boatraces by the Port Arthur News.
NEW: Soundshow and story — No ‘Small’ honor for PA volunteer
If “only what you have done for Christ will be counted in the end,” the tally of what Fabiola Small has done will be a high number.
Take me out to the ball game
A metal “clink” rings out as a baseball soars far into the outfield and fans rise to their feet cheering — baseball season is here.
On one field at Bridge City baseball park, league president and coach of the Minor League Twins, Brigg Patterson, first rakes the infield sand then chalks the field as parents, players, coaches and fans begin to pour into the park.
Video slideshow of Jefferson County Master Gardeners Market Day
Les bon temps roulette at Mardi Gras Central 2008
The sights, the scenes and the sounds from the record-breaking 2008 Mardi Gras celebrations in Port Arthur.
Remembering Pfc. Bobb
An American soldier in Iraq, Pfc. Brandon Keith Bobb lost his life to a roadside bomb on July 17, 2007. On Monday he returned home to hundreds who mourned his loss.
MOVIE: A flutter in Anahuac
Each year the North American Butterfly Association gathers to count the majestic creatures all across America. Here is a portion of what was found in Southeast Texas.

Video By Guiseppe Barranco
MOVIE: Remembering Audrey
Video By: Guiseppe Barranco
50 years after Hurricane Audrey devastated the Louisiana coast line, victims gathered in Cameron, La. to remember, share and reunite.
MOVIE: Lotus Tour
Video By: Guiseppe Barranco
Each year the monks of Port Arthur’s Buu Mon Temple display their treasured lotus garden in an open house tour. Along with viewing exotic flowers, guests toured the temple grounds, dinned on Vietnamese foods and observed martial arts.
MOVIE: Witnessing the fate of nations
Stationed on Hawaii in 1941, Ervin Brody played basket ball for the US Army under the protective blanket of peace time, until travesty struck and the fate of several nations was left in the balance. Watch Brody's account of December 7, 1941.
MOVIE: PAPD's Tickets to safer streets
Video by: Guiseppe Barranco
Newly appointed to the Port Arthur Police's street unit, Ricky Antoine, is serving up sitations to keep the city's streets safer. Watch here at panews.com to see how and why.
MOVIE: In the line of duty
Video by: Guiseppe Barranco
“I think for everyone, that is the most intense ... serious call you can ever get,” Port Arthur Police Major Raymond Clark said following a manhunt Thursday morning that ended after an officer was shot in the leg and a suspect shot in the mouth.
MOVIE: Art in motion from underwater
Video by: Guiseppe Barranco
Tucked away in south-Port Arthur exists a unique form of art that lives and breaths underwater. Watch as Melanie Nau's majestic koi fish transform a backyard into an oasis of art and beauty

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