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MORGAN CITY — The city’s ongoing struggle with the Federal Emergency Management Agency over base flood elevations, and purchases of new electrical system equipment, were among topics discussed at...
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MANSURA, La. – A dozen supporters of 4-H will be honored Saturday when they are inducted into the Louisiana 4-H Hall of Fame. The ceremony will be from 1-3 p.m. at the 4-H Museum at 8592 La. Highw...
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Several Louisiana State Parks will be opening their swimming pools for the summer in just a few weeks. The pools are scheduled to open Memorial Day weekend. Officials will then close the pools fo...
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VILLE PLATTE – It’s official, Evangeline Parish Schools are fully desegregated after nearly half a century. Nearly 48 years after the initial suit was filed, Evangeline Parish was in Federal Cour...
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JONESBORO – Police investigating a reported suicide discovered the victim had three wounds and charged his wife with murder. Teresa Jones reported Sunday night that her husband Alan had committed ...
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ZACHARY – A 12-year-old faces drug charges after allegedly being found in possession of cocaine and diazepam. The boy, police said, was a passenger in a car stopped for another reason. Gary Sloat...
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CROWLEY – Louisiana farmers let out a collective sigh of relief as word spread recently that federal officials had approved release of a new fungicide for rice. The U.S. Environmental Protection A...
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Beryl Dean Adams, 58, a resident of Houma and native of Terrebonne Parish, died Sunday at her residence. Visitation will be Saturday at Beautiful Zion Baptist Church, 120 Hialeah Ave., Houma, from...
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Jody Paul Domingue, 45, a native of Patterson and resident of Broussard, died Wednesday, May 16, 2012, at Lafayette General Medical Center. Jody attended Patterson High School and worked as a heav...
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October 31, 1942 — May 16, 2012 William Robert “Bob” Rollins, 69, a native of Lexington, Okla., and resident of Morgan City, passed away Wednesday, May 16, 2012, at Teche Regional Medical Center i...
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Elizabeth Daggett Fitter, 87, a native of Niagara Falls, N.Y., and a resident of Bayou Vista, passed away Wednesday at Teche Regional Medical Center in Morgan City. Elizabeth is survived by two so...
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Beryl Dean Adams, 58, a resident of Houma and a native of Orleans, died Sunday, May 13, 2012 at her residence. Visitation will be Saturday, May 19, at Beautiful Zion Baptist Church, 120 Hialeah ...
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Advertising exec RAYNE – Services are Friday for former newspaer ad executive Johnny Meche. He died May 16 at age 72. He was advertising director for The Daily Advertiser in Lafayette for 30 ye...
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Multi-jurisdictional Drug Task Force agents reported the following arrests this morning: Dontrell Robinson, 20, of 501½ Ninth St., Lot 10, Franklin, was arrested Thursday at 4:12 p.m. on a charge ...
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A Morgan City woman was arrested after attempting to steal $108 worth of seafood from Rouses Supermarket. Tanisha L. Thomas, 36, Joseph Street was charged at 12:39 p.m. Wednesday with theft by sho...
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Each law enforcement agency in the area reported one arrest in the past day. —Jammal Weeden, 36, of Tiffany Street, Patterson, arrested by the St. Mary Parish Sheriff’s Office Tuesday at 6:21 p.m....
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St. Mary Parish Sheriff Mark Hebert reported one arrest this morning. Joshua J. Perro, 23, of 179 Eves St., Jeanerette, was arrested Tuesday at 12:38 p.m. on a charge of domestic battery. No bond ...
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A car stolen from a Berwick residence was recovered and the person wanted in connection with the incident was arrested in Beaumont, Texas. Anthony Gloskey, 51, of Nederland, Texas, was charged on ...
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More details have emerged on the Patterson arrest of a man for peeping into the window of young girls in his neighborhood. Chief Pat LaSalle said Bobby Mouton, 37, of Tall Timbers Drive in Patters...
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The first athletic contests at Southwest Louisiana Industrial Institute (UL Lafayette today) were annual Field Days begun in 1904, in which SLII and area high schools competed in track and field ...
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The St. Landry Parish town of Washington was settled in 1720 and claims to be the second oldest settled place in Louisiana, behind Natchitoches, which was established in 1714 and is said to be the ...
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There's a minor flap going on because a local singer uses the "c" word to describe himself and his friends in the lyrics to one of his songs and the former head of CODOFIL doesn't like it. I'm ...
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Louisiana French music began to get a wide national audience in the 1970s after masters of the craft like Bois Sec Ardoin and Canray Fontenot, the Balfa Brothers, Nathan Abshire, and others were in...
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Revisionist historians have been telling us since the Revolution that American history began in the 13 "original" Atlantic colonies and that hardy, English-speaking pioneers pushing across the moun...
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Jean Lafitte was probably the most famous French speaker at the Battle of New Orleans, fought 197 years ago today. But there were some others — mostly former Napoleonic soldiers — who fought well a...
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The Northern Arapaho tribe in Wyo-ming was granted permission by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to kill or capture and release two bald eagles a year for ceremonial purposes. Quite a backlash ...
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“More domestic drilling won’t bring back $2.50-per-gallon gas, as Newt Gingrich has suggested — oil prices are dictated by the vast world market, of which U.S. production is just a small fraction. ...
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The surprise death of Davy Jones last week left baby-boomers and some beyond that generation, like me, a little depressed. The former Monkee was only 66. Now, when I was 20 years old, 66 seemed an...
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Of all tyrannies a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s ...
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We will be nearly finished, I think, when we stop understanding the old pull toward green things and living things, toward dirt and rain and heat and what they spawn. – John Graves, “Goodbye To A R...
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The United States Congress has authorized what some claim will mean unmanned drone aircraft to fly over U.S. skies, possibly as many as 30,000 by the year 2020. These would be available to federal...
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By GEOFFREY STOUTE The owners of Mr. Ronnie’s Hot and Famous Donuts in Houma are looking to expand into St. Mary Parish and currently are seeking those interested in purchasing a franchise between...
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BATON ROUGE — The Louisiana Association of Business and Industry, the state’s largest statewide business association, announced in September the creation of the new LABI Technology Advocacy Council...
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SM Energy third quarter net income increased by $214.6 million from the same period in 2010, and its stock soared by more than $3 per diluted share, both due to higher production, the sale of opera...
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Special to the Daily Review The latest tugboat to be part of the Settoon Towing fleet was christened the Fred A. Settoon on Nov. 4 in honor of owner Russ Settoon’s father. Settoon was the younge...
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NEW ORLEANS — The city’s most celebrated chefs and restaurateurs were on hand to help the Rouse family open its new market in the Arts District near the Mercedes Benz Superdome on Tuesday. This is...
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