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St. Landry board approves 182 job cuts, more to come
OPELOUSAS – The domino topple that will eventually cost 182 persons their jobs began at Tuesday’s St. Landry Parish School Board meeting. The board approved Acting Supt. Joseph Cassimere’s two-part...
Apr 18, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 42 42 recommendations | email to a friend
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Tangi board approves school system cuts
AMITE – The Tangipahoa Parish School Board has approved the continuation of a package of one-year cuts that should save the system $2 million during 2012-13. The cuts include suspending professiona...
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Donor-named funds established by Community Foundation of Acadiana
LAFAYETTE - Community Foundation of Acadiana (CFA) recently established several separate named Funds under the direction of its donors. CFA offers a variety of Funds affording its donors opportun...
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DL Menard, Bruce Vin will celebrate birthdays at Liberty Theater
Saturday, APRIL 21, 2012, the weekly "Rendez-vous des Cajuns" Music Show will celebrate the 80th birthdays of two Legends of Louisiana Music...VIN BRUCE and DL MENARD. Along with the JAMBALAYA CAJU...
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Jindal's retirement overhaul goes to Senate floor
BATON ROUGE – Afters hours of back and forth over the legality of the measures and promises of court challenges, the Senate Retirement Committee on Monday sent Gov. Bobby Jindal’s package on for fl...
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Father, son killed in high-performance boat accident
NEW IBERIA – Investigation continues into a boating accident that killed a father and son Saturday. Erath natives Leon Ortemond and his son David died when their high-performance boat caught fire i...
Apr 16, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 41 41 recommendations | email to a friend
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Women fuss over one's sending naughty image of her to other's 12-year-old
Responding to neighbors fussing over barking dogs, wandering cats, loud music or mis-parked cars is routine police work. But two engaged over a, shall we say, risque picture sent to a juvenile is r...
Apr 13, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 40 40 recommendations | email to a friend
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White Lake birding, nature trail opens
GUEYDAN – T\the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) on Thursday opened a new, two-mile birding and nature trail at White Lake Wetlands Conservation Area (WCA) south of Gueydan in ...
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Lightning strikes tin building, killing two fishermen getting out of storm
AMITE – About 75 persons are killed annually by lightning strikes in the U.S. A Tangipahoa father and son are among that number this year. The sheriff’s office says a father and son who never retu...
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Vehicle winds up in canal, driver escapes serious injury
FRESHWATER CITY – State Police are trying to determine why Shawn Harris of Abbeville drove his vehicle into a canal along La. 82, not far from Pecan Island. The Vermilion Parish Sheriff’s Office an...
Apr 12, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 28 28 recommendations | email to a friend
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Third Circuit says lawyer, wife were La. residents, owe state $715,000 income tax
The Third Circuit Court of Appeal has ruled that Opelousas attorney and businessman Louis Viviano and his wife Christy owe more than $700,000 in disputed state income tax due 20 years ago. At issue...
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Louisiana students say flat tires landing was rough but not scary
WASHINGTON D.C. - A handful of Mt. Carmel (Vermilion Parish) students and chaperones did not realize their lives were in danger until they began being interviewed by the Washington D.C. media on Mo...
Apr 10, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 27 27 recommendations | email to a friend
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