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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...
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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 | 29 29 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 | 29 29 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...
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Guard director of joint staff attains general officer rank
PINEVILLE – Barry D. Keeling is the newest general in the Louisiana National Guard. The New Orleans soldier was promoted this month to brigadier general. He serves as director of the joint staff fo...
Sep 11, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 21 21 recommendations | email to a friend
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Two killed when airborne pickup squashes their car
ZACHARY – Two elderly men were killed when their vehicle was squashed by another. State Police said Kenneth Cavin, 19, of St. Francisville was driving north on U.S. 61 when his pickup went out of c...
Sep 10, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 24 24 recommendations | email to a friend
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Isaac ag loss at $100 million; could have been much worse
Louisiana’s individual agricultural commodities escaped major damage from Hurricane Isaac, according to analyses from the LSU AgCenter. LSU AgCenter county agents and crop specialists spent the we...
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Fontenot with violin/fiddle parts
He knows violins -- from soul to shell
The impeccably dressed Frenchman was leading a group of French tourists of equal stature deep into Cajun country. When he steered his group -- 35 or 40 touring Acadiana by bus -- to a booth where ...
Sep 09, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 31 31 recommendations | email to a friend
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Getting an 11-foot-long gator up on the scales.
Real 'Swamp People" wrestle 11-foot gator on opening day
VERMILION PARISH – It almost resembled a scene from “Swamp People.” Three gator hunters battling an 11-foot alligator for 15 minutes before trying to bring it in the boat. That was the scene Wednes...
Sep 08, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 28 28 recommendations | email to a friend
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