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LSU six-year grad rate climbs to two-thirds, highest ever
BATON ROUGE – LSU’s six-year graduation rate has increased to 66.7 percent, the highest in the university’s history, according to the LSU Office of Budget and Planning. This year’s graduation rate ...
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Revenue panel hears Holloway, industry spokesman disagree on solar energy tax credit
BATON ROUGE - Public Service Commissioner Clyde Holloway and the renewable energies industry disagreed before legislators on the merits of a solar energy tax credit. Holloway warned members of the...
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Man allegedly cuts fetus from wife, kills it
WALKER – A man described by neighbors as normally nice was howling like a wolf when deputies restrained him after he allegedly killed his unborn child. Authorities alleged that Jeffery Reynolds, 31...
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Deaths Elsewhere
Killed in action WHITEHALL – Services for Corporal Joseph Fontenot, missing in Korea since June 28, 1951 will be Saturday. He was killed in action at age 20. His remains were recently found and ide...
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'Judge, I swear I saw horns'
HOUMA – Maybe, just maybe, there was a reason the hunter thought that doe had horns. Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Enforcement Division agents cited a Houma man for alleged deer hu...
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Deer hunter cies in apparent stand accident; attaching straps broken, no safety harness
OAKDALE – Investigation continues in the apparent accidental death of a Lake Charles deer hunter. The Reeves Police Department received a report on Oct. 18 about a truck that had been parked on th...
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Motocrcylist dies when bike hits bridge rail
WESTLAKE – A Moss Bluff man is dead after a motorcycle crash in Calcasieu Parish. Shortly after 1 Saturday morning, Louisiana State Police Troop D responded to a single-vehicle motorcycle crash on...
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Crash kills Opelouas Gold Wing driver
OPELOUSAS – Investigation continues into a fatal Saturday night motorcycle crash. State Police said Edward Lanclos, 69, of Opelousas was driving a 2006 Honda Gold Wing Trike west on LA Highway 104 ...
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Buck stops here, and there, then walks out of town
ABBEVILLE – A deer on the streets of Abbeville is about as rare as a bar closed on Mardi Gras Day. Nevertheless, here’s an Abbeville deer story. Monday at around 4 a.m., Jimmy Hebert was sleeping ...
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Mother charged with killing her children, ages 3 and 4
NEW ORLEANS – Police say a mother allegedly confessed to shooting her young son and drowning her daughter. She is jailed on two counts of first-degree murder. Chelsea Thornton, 23, allegedly killed...
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Suspect whose gun fell apart charged with armed robbery
BAKER - An alleged armed robber whose pistol fell apart as he fled the scene has been arrested. Chavis Duncan, 19, is accused of robbing two fast-food employees of several hundred dollars after he...
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Former police chief gets 46 months on federal gun charge
LAFAYETTE - Former Leesville police chief Bobby Hickman was sentenced Tuesday to 46 months on federal firearms charge. U.S. Dist. Judge Richard Haik also sentenced Hickman, 51, to three years of su...
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