Shell of a Home

Peggy Yetman trains in the Health and Wellness pool for the upcoming Iron Man competition in Kona, Hawaii. Yetman is the 2008 Iron Man winner in her age group.
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Jarrod Summers stretches for the basket during practice at Silsbee High School. Dubbed J-Rock by team mates and an intense player by his coach, Summers' is known around the area as an aggressive player reaching for his dreams of playing in the NBA.

Memorial Titan's kicker Omar Zepeda poses for a photo following practice at Memorial High School in Port Arthur, Texas.
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From left, Raymon Morris, Seburn Fox and Billy Wayne Barton climb across the skeleton of a massive Christmas tree being erected at Beaumont's Art Museum of Southeast Texas. The tree is expected to be finished by the weekend.
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Crowds gather around a home in the 800 block of Ninth Street in Port Arthur as police detectives investigate the city's third homicide of the year. Police believe a man was shot to death during a drug deal gone bad.
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Earl Trahan rides atop a small building along Beaumont's Fourth Street Tuesday. Trahan stood on the roof, wielding a plastic pipe used to raise electric lines out of the way. Moody's Moving Company transported the structure to a plot of land on Texas 124.
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From left, Raymon Morris, Seburn Fox and Billy Wayne Barton climb across the skeleton of a massive Christmas tree being erected at Beaumont's Museum of Southeast Texas on Wednesday. The tree is said to be finished by this weekend.
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Seven Dust rocks out the audience at Ford Park Sunday during Dog Jam '09. The Black Crowes, Saving Able and Seven Dust performed at the outdoor amphitheater for more than seven hours.
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Central's offensive lineman Sterling Cantue has been the one constant on an offensive line highly associated with change.
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West Brook's Donte Lopez leaps for yardage near the end zone during a match up against Sterling High School Saturday at the Bruin's stadium.
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Category 2 Hurricane Ike rolls into the Port of Beaumont Sept. 12, 2008. According to weather instrumentation on the Cape Vincent, a cargo ship docked at the port, winds reached up to 110 knots as storm surge rose six feet in the port.
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Daniel Aquino jumps a tethered ball with, from left, Victor Ceballos, Francisco Ceballos and Sergio Ceballos at their family's apartment on Monday. The Ceballos brothers and three other siblings have been living with the Aquino family since their mother was deported to Mexico earlier this month.
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An early morning police chase Monday ended quickly on Walden Road near Major Drive in Beaumont. Police, who took off on foot through a drainage canal near the city road, found and arrested a shirtless Fedro Gatlin. Gatlin was charged with burglary of a car. The manhunt occurred on a historically cold day.
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