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School Board opts for $88k from Atchafalay Basin cypress harvest, group threatens to sue
ST. MARTINVILLE – A group of environmentalists is threatening the sue the St. Martin Parish School Board under the federal Clean Water Act if the board proceeds with a plan to cut down stands of ba...
May 26, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 23 23 recommendations | email to a friend
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LSU chancellor takes Colorado State post
BATON ROUGE – LSU Chancellor Michael Martin announced that he will accept the position of chancellor of the Colorado State University System, which includes CSU in Fort Collins, CSU-Pueblo and the ...
May 25, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 31 31 recommendations | email to a friend
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Another search for missing Shunick yields nothing, tips keep coming
ST. MARTINVILLE – Four days after pretty, petite Mickey Shunick vanished from a Lafayette street in the middle of the night, peace officers and volunteers convened at Lake Martin in St. Martin Pari...
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Waste tire transport faces more than 100 charges
CHURCH POINT – Rakeim Senegal, 20, of Church Point, a waste tire transporter employed by Reds Transport, is being charged with 58 counts of forgery; 58 counts of filing a false public record; one c...
May 24, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 20 20 recommendations | email to a friend
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Pine Prairie services set for teen accident victims
PINE PRAIRIE – This community where everyone knows everyone is in mourning in the wake of the deaths of two teenage boys who will be memorialized Friday in the chuch where they confirmed in their f...
May 24, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 27 27 recommendations | email to a friend
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Shunick search in fifth day, reward raised to $20,000
LAFAYETTE – No sign of Micky Shunick, now missing five days, has turned up despite searches by countless volunteers, trained dogs and the posting of a reward. Tuesday night, that bounty was increas...
May 23, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 29 29 recommendations | email to a friend
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Councilman charged with cruelty to horses, intimidation
MARKSVILLE –A city councilman who apparently tried to throw his political weight around faces charges. Elliot Jordan, 41, of 440 Green St., Marksville, was charged with public intimidation, resisti...
May 23, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 22 22 recommendations | email to a friend
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Oakdale accident kills two Ville Platte teens
OAKDALE – Two Ville Platte teenagers were killed in a late-morning crash just east of here. State Police said the accident occurred at 11:25 a.m. on La. 10 about one mile outside the town. Prelimin...
May 23, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 26 26 recommendations | email to a friend
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Woman rides bike into the night, has been missing since
LSN LAFAYETTE - People from across Acadiana have mobilized in force to search for Mickey Shunick, the missing Lafayette woman who would have celebrated her 22nd birthday on Monday. She hasn’t bee...
May 22, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 27 27 recommendations | email to a friend
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Computer-enhanced satellite image of Hurricane Katrina, dated Aug. 28, 2005, as one of the worst storms in U.S. history moved through the Gulf of Mexico. Katrina caused 1,836 confirmed deaths and over $82 billion in property damages.
Research Center predicts eight named storms this hurricane season
COLUMBUS, OHIO – According to the Weather Research Center, Tropical Storm Helene should be the eighth and final named storm of the 2012 Hurricane Season. Five of those named tropical storms --- in...
May 22, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 30 30 recommendations | email to a friend
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DEQ loans Zachary $9.3 million to upgrade wastewater system
BATON ROUGE – The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality and the city of Zachary closed a loan Monday of $9,300,000 for use on the rehabilitation and replacement of sewer collection lines an...
May 22, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 23 23 recommendations | email to a friend
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Kisatchie holding youth fishing derbies
PINEVILLE – With summer just around the corner, Kisatchie National Forest (KNF) invites families to explore the state’s only national forest by participating in the annual youth fishing derbies hel...
May 22, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 23 23 recommendations | email to a friend
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