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The Port of Beaumont is a deep-water port located in Beaumont, Texas near the mouth of the Neches River.. It is the fourth busiest port in the United States according to the American Association of Port Authorities U.S. Port Ranking by Cargo Tonnage, 2018 report, [3] and the forty-seventh busiest in the world in terms of tonnage, according to the American Association of Port Authorities World ...
South Texas is a geographic and cultural region of the U.S. state of Texas that lies roughly south of—and includes—San Antonio. The southern and western boundary is the Rio Grande , and to the east it is the Gulf of Mexico .
Louis William Conradt Jr. was born on January 30, 1950, in Kaufman County, Texas, to Montie Estelle King and Louis William Conradt. [6] Conradt Jr. graduated from Terrell High School in 1968, where he was the assistant editor of the yearbook and president of his senior class. [7]
At the end of an unnamed private road in Red River County, on a brisk fall day in 2019, Texas fire marshals approached the site of an explosion. Chunks of concrete littered the ground, while ...
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill began on April 20, 2010 when an explosion struck the rig, it occurred in the Gulf of Mexico on the BP-operated Macondo Prospect.Killing eleven people, it is considered the largest marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry and sources estimated that between 134–206 million barrels of oil was released into the gulf.
The South Texas region is an area of 28 counties defined by the Texas Comptroller for economic reporting in 2022, as mapped here. The region included 2020 population of 2.4, or 8.3 percent of Texas' population, with about 32 percent in Hidalgo County (which includes McAllen) alone.
A remorseful death row inmate pleaded for forgiveness and mouthed one final message before being put to death in Texas on Thursday, 20 years after he killed his strip club manager and another man.
Recovery efforts were underway across the eastern U.S. after a powerful storm inundated communities with heavy rain and caused at least 13 deaths.