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Jindal has seven DWI measures in legislative proposals
BATON ROUGE – Governor Bobby Jindal announced seven legislative proposals to crack down on DWIs that have been be approved by the DWI-Vehicular Homicide Task Force. These bills will be proposed as ...
Feb 27, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
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Henderson mayor says his city by the Basin no I-10 speed trap
HENDERSON – In 2009, the Louisiana Legislature passed a law requiring municipalities writing speeding tickets on interstate highways to give the state all revenue from tickets issued for driving le...
Feb 24, 2012 | 1 1 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
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Gas plant explosion forces evacuations
Residents within one mile of the CDM Max natural gas refinery plant southwest of Eunice were evacuated after an explosion early Friday afternoon. The plant is at 4905 Fournerat Road. A number of fi...
Feb 24, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 18 18 recommendations | email to a friend
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Facebook "friends" creates new delay in accused rapist's trial
A Eunice man’s trial on charges of multiple rapes that allegedly occurred over three years and ended with his August 2009 arrest has been delayed again by new wrinkle in the halls of justice. Step...
Feb 24, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 22 22 recommendations | email to a friend
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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...
Feb 22, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 31 31 recommendations | email to a friend
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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...
Feb 22, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 31 31 recommendations | email to a friend
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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...
Feb 22, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 27 27 recommendations | email to a friend
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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...
Feb 22, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 27 27 recommendations | email to a friend
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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 ...
Feb 22, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 19 19 recommendations | email to a friend
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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...
Feb 22, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 16 16 recommendations | email to a friend
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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...
Feb 22, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 17 17 recommendations | email to a friend
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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...
Feb 20, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
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