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Woman pleads guility in Medicare wheelchair scam
LAFAYETTE _–A Rayne woman pleaded guilty Tuesday to federal health care fraud. Dorothy Cole, 59, owned a company that provided such items as power wheelchairs and scooters to Medicare recipients. S...
Sep 19, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 20 20 recommendations | email to a friend
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Agents book eight teal hunters who can't count
Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Enforcement Division agents cited eight men for allegedly possessing over the limit of migratory game birds on Catahoula Lake in LaSalle Parish on Sep...
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Alleged wife killer described as 'evil'
Robert Heard, a killer described by one who knows him as just plain evil, has allegedly killed again, this time stabbing his wife to death at their Eunice home. Police say he stabbed Demetra Doyle ...
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Junior high band director child in child porn case
DERIDDER – State Police say a junior high school band director distributed child pornography. Robert McNamee, 65, was charged after an Operation Child Watch investigation led to investigators findi...
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Teen passenger killed when van crosses centerline, strikes car head-on
DOYLINE – A teenager was killed Sunday when the van he was a passenger in hit another vehicle head-on. State Police said Matthew Kirkheart, 15, died in the collision on La. 164 about 4:30 p.m. Josh...
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Texas man held for allegedly stealing kiss at Walmart
Theft at Walmart is nothing new, but police have arrested a Texas man for an unusual alleged theft - a kiss. According to Eunice police, they responded to a complaint at Walmart after Randy J. Butc...
Sep 13, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 44 44 recommendations | email to a friend
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Lake Charles man gets 51 months in food stamp cash scheme
LAKE CHARLES – A Lake Charles man has been sentenced to 51 months in federal prison for stealing more than $1 million in food stamp benefits. U.S. District Judge Richard Haik on Tuesday sentenced 4...
Sep 12, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 36 36 recommendations | email to a friend
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Magnet Academy director dies in head-on crash
OPELOUSAS – The second-year director of the Opelousas High Magnet Academy of Biomedical Sciences was killed on her way to school Tuesday. Robin Jeffers, 33, who lived in Carencro, was hit while slo...
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Guardsman convoying home from Isaad deployment killed when Humvee hit by 18-wheeler
NATCHITOCHES – A National Guard member headed home from Hurricane Isaac relief duty was killed and another injured in a Humvee accident west of here Tuesday. According to State Police, Sgt. Kevin W...
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Shoes desparately need in LaPlace in wake of Isaac
LAPLACE – The City of LaPlace, located in St. John the Baptist Parish, has been the most devastated area in Louisiana from Hurricane Isaac, due to the lack of levee protection. Within a population ...
Sep 11, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 34 34 recommendations | email to a friend
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Survey again rates Louisiana at bottom of lawsuit climate
A new national survey released Monday by the U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform (ILR) finds that Louisiana’s lawsuit climate is perceived as the second worst in the country at number 49. The ...
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Former Alabama governor headed back to Oakdale prison
OAKDALE – Don Sigelman is returning to federal prison here, where he is not the first former governor to do a stretch in the federal prison here. The former Alabama governor, 66, is supposed to rep...
Sep 11, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 32 32 recommendations | email to a friend
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