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Narcotics team nabs 5; seizes guns, cash, drugs
Sheriff’s Office Narcotics Division detectives arrested five persons after executing a search warrant in the Ashton area of western St. Mary Parish Wednesday. Drugs, guns and cash were recovered, S...
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Man rams Baldwin storefront
A Baldwin man is jailed after inexplicably ramming a truck through the entrance of a local store, police say. Chief Gerald Minor said Danny Ray Mitchell, 32, of 109 Lockley St., Baldwin, was arrest...
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Morgan City utility crews began placing Christmas decorations this week. Mark Broussard hangs a flag on a light post on Brashear Avenue Tuesday afternoon.
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas
By JEAN L. KAESS AND ZACHARY FITZGERALD jkaess@daily-review.com zfitzgerald@daily-review.com MORGAN CITY, La.-- Streets in the Tri-City area are being trimmed with Christmas decorations in anticipa...
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Renwick Subdivision nearly complete in Berwick
BERWICK, La. — Phase five of Renwick Subdivision should be about 95 percent complete by mid-December and it was transferred to the Berwick Development District by ordinance Tuesday in preparation f...
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Report critical of state fire marshal
BATON ROUGE (AP) — A state inspector general’s wide-ranging report on Louisiana Fire Marshal Butch Browning includes a finding that one of Browning’s inspectors failed to detect mechanical problems...
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Sheriffs’ detainee records sought
By JANET McCONNAUGHEY Associated Press NEW ORLEANS — A state judge in Crowley has ordered the Vermilion Parish sheriff to provide records to a nonprofit group of immigrants detained since 2009. The...
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Doctors linking patient records electronically
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A New Orleans hospital and 11 clinics are hooked up to share electronic health records so doctors can see what treatments a patient has had and whether a new prescription would i...
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Louisiana news briefs
New Orleans-based Coast Guard unit returns NEW ORLEANS — A New Orleans based U.S. Coast Guard anti-terrorism team is scheduled to return home today from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba after a six-month depl...
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Commodities to be distributed
St. Mary Community Action Agency and Food For Families Program will be distributing commodities Friday, according to Almetra J. Franklin, CEO. Distribution will be on a first- come, first-served ba...
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Wheelhouse -- A calendar of events for East St. Mary Parish
Fall Revival At New Zorah Baptist Church, 604 Julia St., Morgan City, 7 p.m. Monday and Tuesday, Nov. 19 and 20. Evangelist the Rev. Ricardo Handy of Mt. Zion Baptist Church, Plaquemine. Public inv...
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Parish council meets tonight
A full slate of meetings awaits St. Mary Parish Council members ahead of their regular meeting tonight. A budget/finance committee meeting of the whole council is slated at 5 p.m. followed by publi...
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Yokely theft arrests now 7
Three more juveniles were arrested in connection with the reported break-in and burglary of the Yokely Pumping Station. Three 13-year-olds, two males and a female, were charged Tuesday evening with...
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Hearing set on coastal master plan
The State’s Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority will hold a public briefing on its recently released Draft 2012 Coastal Master Plan on Tuesday, 3-5 p.m., at the Morgan City Harbor and Term...
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Oneal Chube Jr. dedication
Family, friends and former students of the late Coach Oneal Chube Jr. gathered Saturday for the renaming of Fourth Street in Franklin in his honor. Chube taught and coached at Franklin schools for ...
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School board adopts redistricting plan
CENTERVILLE — The St. Mary Parish School Board adopted its redistricting plan Thursday. No comments were received concerning the matter during either the public hearing or the regular board meetin...
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Automated permit process approved by levee board
Members of the St. Mary Levee District agreed Thursday to take part in the use of an automated permit process. Billy Wall of the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority told commissioners that...
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Rousse awaits bail hearing in Jefferson
New details have emerged in the arrest of the Baptist youth and music minister arrested for online solicitation of a minor, among other charges. Mitchell J. Rousse, 33, of Diane Street in Patterson...
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Sales tax collections up in 2011 by $900,000
St. Mary Parish taxpayers showered local governments with $37 million in sales tax receipts in 2011, a $900,000 increase over 2010 and up $2.5 million over 2009. While the bounty left local governm...
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First Baptist releases statement on youth minister's arrest
The following statement was released this afternoon by First Baptist Church regarding today's arrest of youth minister Mitchell Rousse: "We are shocked and deeply saddened by the actions of Mitche...
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Patterson preps to phase in water rate increases
PATTERSON — Water customers here will see the first step of a phased-in rate increase soon. Customers also will see increases in general fees, deposits and new water meter installation costs that ...
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Property owner makes case for marina at Port
John Tesvich, owner of a parcel of property on the West St. Mary Port slip, told the port commission Tuesday he wants to build a docking facility there that is mostly commercial with only a small r...
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High water delays boat launch building
A 30-day extension for the construction of a boat launch for state and federal agencies at the Morgan City Harbor and Terminal District’s dock has been granted because high water conditions that ha...
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St. Mary Parish President Paul Naquin, seated, and the Parish Council began their new terms of office Monday with inauguration ceremonies in the council meeting room on the fifth floor of the courhtouse in Frankllin. Standing from left are Butch Metz representing District 1; Butch Middleton, District 2; David Hanagriff, District 3; Glen Hidalgo, District 4; Ken Singleton, District 5; Logan Fromenthal, District 6; Tim Tregel, District 7; Sterling Fryou, District 8; Albert Foulcard, District 9; Steve Bierhorst, District 10; and Kevin Voisin, District 11.
Parish council, prez take oaths, hold 1st session
Parish President Paul Naquin and members of the St. Mary Parish Council began their new four-year terms as oaths of office were administered Monday by legal officials that included a Louisiana Supr...
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MC residents have say at zoning meeting
MORGAN CITY — Updating zoning codes with more emphasis on character, rather than land use, will give the city a more useful tool to use during the next 20 years in determining how it wants landsca...
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