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Heroic action gets crop duster out of downed plane, emergency treatment started
KAPLAN - A crop duster crash north of Kaplan has brought together two families who never knew each other until that moment. A week ago last Wednesday, Kristyn Abshire and Gary Noel had no idea eac...
Aug 24, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 35 35 recommendations | email to a friend
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DeSoto School Board member held on cocaine charge
SHREVEPORT – A DeSoto Parish School Board member faces a cocaine distribution charge. Barthlomew Claiborne of Mansfield was arrested Wednesday night. Additional charges are expected as result of...
Aug 23, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 44 44 recommendations | email to a friend
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I-10/I-12 traffic impeded by leaking tanker
BATON ROUGE – A portion of Interstate 10 in both directions could be closed until Thursday due to cleanup from a leaking tanker truck. The busy highway between Essen Lane and Bluebonnet Boulevard i...
Aug 22, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 36 36 recommendations | email to a friend
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Suspected tripled-slayer captured in woods near murder scene
LARTO – Fleeing accused triple slayer Lee Ponthieux, Jr. didn’t get far after leaving his car in a ditch near the killing scene early Monday. Catahoula Parish deputies caught him in woods about a m...
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TD 9 building toward TS Isaac and then hurricane status
Tropical Depression 9 of the current hurricane season is expected to intensify to tropical storm strength sometime Tuesday, according to the National Weather Service. It has become become better or...
Aug 21, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 30 30 recommendations | email to a friend
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Hounds comb southern Catahoula Parish for suspected triple slayer
LARTO – Usually the most-talked about item in this south Catahoula Parish community is whether the white perch are biting. That changed Monday when three people were shot do death after a fight got...
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Officers lead Brandon Lavergne to court Friday.
Lavergne pleads to killing Shunick, Pate
Brandon Scott Lavergne, who thought he had earlier stabbed her to death, pleaded guilty Friday to shooting Mickey Shunick in May of this year in a cane field where he intended to bury her. He also ...
Aug 17, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 34 34 recommendations | email to a friend
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Lake Charles brothers get prison time in food stamp fraud
LAKE CHARLES – Two Lake Charles brothers will do prison time and make restitution for a food stamp scheme that took the federal government for $2.7 million. U.S. District Judge Patricia Minaldi gav...
Aug 17, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 37 37 recommendations | email to a friend
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Teen trying to retrieve puppies dies in house fire
HOLLY RIDGE – A teenager died when she apparently tried to retrieve two puppies rather than exit a burning house. Angle Johnston, 17, engaged to be married in December, died with fire destroyed the...
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Angler falls into Toledo Bend, drowns
TOLEDO BEND – A fisherman fell from his boat Thursday afternoon and drowned in eight feet of water. According to Sabine Coroner Ron Rivers, Brandon Jeane of Noble was fishing with a friend in a cov...
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Boys & Girls Club official drowns
ALEXANDRIA – The executive director of the Boys & Girls Club apparently drowned here Wednesday. Divers retrieved the body of Dominic Bradford, 24, from Bayou Rapides near Stracener Street in the ci...
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Recently released sex offender, girlfriend charged in juvenile rape case
JENNINGS – A sex offender recently released from prison and his girlfriend are charged with sex crimes involving a juvenile. Police said Jarred Pontiff, 29, of Youngsville, recently freed from pris...
Aug 16, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 32 32 recommendations | email to a friend
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