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Teen struggling to overcome shooting's effects succumbs to them
CROWLEY – Chyna Young’s inspiring struggle to overcome paralysis caused when she was shot four times by a former boyfriend is over. She died Wednesday of complications from her injuries. Chyna Youn...
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Natchitoches man held in Melville bank robbery, two others sought
MELVILLE – A Natchitoches man is charged with robbing a bank here and two others are being sought. Police said Tyrone D. Byers was apprehended in Amarillo, Texas on Feb. 16 after a high-speed chase...
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Former group home worker charged with molesting juvenile
BAKER – Baker Police have arrested a woman for allegedly molesting a juvenile boy at group home, said Baker Police Chief Mike Knaps. Detectives arrested Cynthia Haynes, 43, of 2116 Davenport Avenu...
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Alleged crawfish swindle allegedly nets $120,000
OPELOUSAS – A man faces more than 100 counts from alleged crawfish swindle. Police said Wendell Mason, 44, of Opelousas was arrested on 58 counts of theft and 53 counts of felony theft. He is alleg...
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Two children die when car crashes into bayou; two others, driver swim to safety
GONZALES – Two children were killed and two others survived when their car crashed into a bayou late Tuesday. State Police said sheriff’s deputies arriving first at the scene were unable to rescue ...
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Caddo commissioners put proposed PJ law to rest
SHREVEPORT – The Caddo Parish commissioners aren’t interested in becoming pajama police. The panel on Tuesday voted 8-4 not to put on its agenda a proposed ordinance to ban wearing PJs in public. M...
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Man slips from float trailer tongue, run over and killed
NEW ROADS – Investigation continues into the death a man who fell from a Mardi Gras float on Tuesday. State Ppolice said the accident happened following the New Roads parade on Fat Tuesday. Investi...
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Eunice man dies after head-on crash
A Eunice man died at a hospital from injuries suffered about sunrise Monday. State Police said a truck crossed the center line at the La. 13-La. 29 curve-intersection and hit another shortly before...
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10 cited in alleged deer-poaching activity
SALINE– Wildlife agents have cited 10 persons with alleged poaching activity that killed at least 15 deer. The violations occurred from December 2011 through February 2012 in Webster and Bienville ...
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Five teens charged in cyberbullying, battery case
PORT BARRE – Four teenagers, one a juvenile, are charged with the cyberbulling of a Port Barre boy. A fifth teen is accused of battery. Police say the youth was attacked on two days while at school...
Feb 17, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 28 28 recommendations | email to a friend
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St. Landry board rejects school budget cuts on tie vote
Dist. 6 member Ronald Carrier tried to get a vote early in the raucous St. Landry School Board meeting on Thursday. He was ruled out of procedural order and when he subsequently had to leave, budge...
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Woman returns home to find smouldering ruins of home, estranged husband a suspect
ABBEVILLE – When Jessica Sonnier left her house Thursday night with her five-old-son because her estranged husband was in her house, she did not expect to return the next morning and see her house ...
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