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Maddie Osburn, an eighth-grader at Berwick Junior High School, practices typing her words per minute in Amy Vaccarella’s computer enrichment class in January.
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The average scores of students in St. Mary Parish public schools meeting or exceeding promotional standards in fourth and eighth grades beat the state average, while students in grades three throug...
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DOTD installs sinkhole monitors
BATON ROUGE — State officials have installed enhanced monitoring equipment along La. 70, near the Assumption Parish sinkhole.
The Louisiana Department of Transportat...
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BATON ROUGE (AP) — Gov. Bobby Jindal’s top budget architect said Thursday the state will have enough money to cover the costs of privatizing nearly all of the LSU-run hospitals next year without sh...
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St. Martinville – Relying almost solely on the memories of an ordeal that occurred when the victim was only 10 years old back in 1984, St. Martin Parish Assistant District Attorney Pamela Lemoines ...
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BATON ROUGE (AP) — Lawmakers have delayed the start date of Gov. Bobby Jindal’s signature retirement achievement from last year, a law that would shift future rank-and-file state workers to a 401(k...
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BATON ROUGE, La. — Attempts to raise tuition at Louisiana’s public colleges appear dead for the session, despite concerns about repeated rounds of budget cuts to schools.
Rep. Walt Leger, the numb...
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BATON ROUGE (AP) — A proposal to ban employers and schools from demanding access to personal online accounts has been scrapped.
The House had approved the measure. But Rep. Ted James, D-Baton Rouge...
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October 4, 1954 — May 23, 2013
Patricia Marie Francis, 58, a resident of Morgan City, passed away Thursday, May 23, 2013, at AMG Specialty Hospital in Houma.
Patricia was born on Oct. 4, 1954, in M...
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Ara Mae Francois-McClue, 74, a native of Morgan City and resident of Houston, died May 17 at her residence.
A funeral service will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at South Park Baptist Church, 283 Van Flee...
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Ara Mae Francois-McClue, 74, a native of Morgan City, and a resident of Houston, Texas, died Friday, May 17, 2013 at 10:45 p.m., at her Houston residence.
Funeral service will be Saturday, May 25,...
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Former mayor
HENDERSON – Services will be Friday for former mayor Earl “To-Bit” Patin. He died May 21 at age 74.
He was mayor from 1996 to 22045 and was a village councilman for eight years prior ...
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Beulah Mae Gibson, 87, a native and a resident of Franklin, died Wednesday, May 15, at 9:04 a.m., at Franklin Nursing Care.
Visitation will be Friday, May 24 at St. Jules Catholic Church in Frankli...
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Mud-logging exec
LAFAYETTE – Services for mud-logging company founder William Scott will be Friday. He died May 20 at age 90.
He was a U.S. Army veteran of World War II’s European theater, recommen...
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A Morgan City man was arrested Thursday by St. Mary Parish Sheriff’s deputies after he was observed taking a miter saw out of the back of a truck at a casino on Tuesday, according to Sheriff Mark H...
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St. Mary Parish Sheriff Mark Hebert reported the following arrests from the past 24-hour reporting period:
Bobby Lee Beard, 30, of 7257 La. 182, Apt. 10, Morgan City, was arrested Thursday at 7:21 ...
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St. Mary Parish Sheriff Mark Hebert reported the following arrest:
—Edwin Burke Jr., 40, of Pacific Street in Berwick, was arrested at 2:58 p.m. Wednesday on warrants for failure to appear for mult...
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St. Mary Parish Sheriff Mark Hebert reported the following arrests from the past 24-hour reporting period:
Ruthie Liz Renee Barnes, 61, of 1017 St. Jude Ave., New Iberia, was arrested Wednesday at ...
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BAYOU VISTA, La. — The St. Mary Parish Sheriff’s Office is looking for a suspect in an attempted armed robbery that was reported around 7 a.m. Tuesday at Chabill’s Tire Service in Bayou Vista, Sher...
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St. Mary Parish Sheriff Mark Hebert reported the arrest of Carl Cage, 47, 121 Hekeb Lane, Verdunville, Tuesday at 5:32 p.m. on charges of possession of synthetic cannabinoids and abuse of toxic vap...
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By JOHN MAGINNIS
and JEREMY ALFORD
LaPolitics.com
The pay raise proposals winding through the Legislature for clerks of court, assessors and judges could potentially increase the salaries of sherif...
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Fire was a huge hazard to south Louisiana communities in the days before modern firefighting equipment and good water supplies, when wooden homes and buildings were illuminated by oil lamps and can...
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It's hard to believe that today marks the tenth anniversary of the death of Mary Alice Fontenot, the newspaperwoman, teacher, and storyteller who knew and was known by practically everyone in Acad...
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Cinqo de Mayo, the fifth of May, commemorates the Mexican army's defeat of French forces at the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862, It was a huge victory for the Mexicans who were outnumbered two to ...
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By MELINDA DESLATTE
Associated Press
BATON ROUGE — Tax discussions may be largely dead for the legislative session, but lawmakers have found a list of other issues over which to bicker for the next...
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In October 1788, César Archinard, Edward Murphy, and François Brunet were sent to the Bayou Chicot community by Nicolas Forstall, commandant of the Poste des Opelousas, to investigate the sudden de...
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May 13
The Advertiser, Lafayette, La., on online sales tax would level playing field:
It is time for states to begin collecting sales tax on Internet purchases. This is a po-tential source of reven...
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May 11
Times-Picayune, New Orleans, on Congress should make sure flood insurance is affordable:
Hurricane Isaac spared 86-year-old Addie Riley’s home in Bohemia last fall. But new federal flood ins...
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May 12
The Advocate, Baton Rouge, La., on state’s children facing crunch:
Continuing challenges with the state budget mean that funding for basic social services is deeply strained, and that realit...
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May 5
The Advocate, Baton Rouge, La., on an end run on textbooks:
Without knowing the background, there is no apparent reason to object to a bill in the Legislature that would give local school dis...
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May 6
The Courier, Houma, La., on voters making a sound decision on taxes:
It was a day for deciding the fates of taxes.
In Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes alone, there were five separate tax iss...
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May 3
The News-Star, Monroe, La. on school systems deserving a vote:
Rural school systems in northeastern Louisiana are suffering financially.
In some communities, the dollars assigned to public sc...
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By JOHN MAGINNIS
and JEREMY ALFORD
LaPOLITICS.com
Proposed salary bumps for assessors, clerks and judges are all positioned to move forward in the remaining three weeks of the regular session. Toge...
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By JOHN MAGINNIS
and JEREMY ALFORD
LaPolitics.com
With the U.S. Senate approving legislation earlier this week to allow states to collect sales taxes on Internet purchases, attention turns to the ...
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By JOHN MAGINNIS and JEREMY ALFORD
LaPolitics.com
BATON ROUGE — Considering all the lawsuits that have been filed and those that are anticipated, the court system is putting Gov. Bobby Jindal and h...
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By JOHN MAGINNIS
and JEREMY ALFORD
LaPolitics.com
A committee hearing that was scheduled Monday for a bill to place the Artificial Reef Development Fund in the state constitution was temporarily de...
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An AP News Analysis
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Gov. Bobby Jindal has punted the tax debate to lawmakers with no guiding principles for the multibillion-dollar budget implications involved in his bid t...
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By JOHN MAGINNIS and JEREMY ALFORD
LaPolitics.com
BATON ROUGE — With Gov. Bobby Jindal’s tax repeal package and those like it apparently immobile and parked for the session, lawmakers are slowly tu...
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By MATTHEW DALY
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz said Tuesday he will put on hold about 20 applications to export liquefied natural gas until he reviews studies by the En...
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Rockin’ Rooster held its grand opening Saturday and was welcomed into the Patterson community by Mayor Rodney Grogan who pointed out that getting restaurants and other businesses like this will hel...
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Cleco sends crews to help in Okla.
PINEVILLE — Cleco Corp. is sending a 34-member crew to Oklahoma City to help Oklahoma Gas and Electric Company restore power to customers after a tornado destroye...
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NEW IBERIA – Teche Federal Bank Board of Directors announced the promotion of Kelli Hayes to banking officer.
Hayes is the branch sales and service manager of Teche’s Bayou Vista branch located at ...
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LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) — It never gets old when companies announce they'll locate or expand in or around Lafayette.
But Gregg Gothreaux, Lafayette Economic Development Authority president and chief ex...
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Louisiana's unemployment rate rose in April for the fourth straight month, as fewer people reported having work.
While the labor force was basically flat, according to the federal Bureau of Labor S...
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