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Husband, father questioned in stabbing, burning of his wife, children
LOCKPORT – Charges have not yet been filed in the case of a fire set to cover up the stabbing deaths of a mother and her two young children. Police have questioned the husband-father as the investi...
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Bullied student, with broken arm, parents, others want Amite action
AMITE -- About two dozen family members, friends and supporters of 13-year old Jewel M. Sumner Middle School student Chris Lang arrived in protest at the Tangipahoa Parish Schools Central Office M...
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Babineaux Sisters playing Liberty on Saturday
The Babineaux Sisters are on the bill at the LIberty Theater on Saturday, Nov. 10, the end of the first day of special Main to Main activities in the city, a day that begins with a community-wide g...
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Man pulls neighbor from burning house
"I just grabbed him and got out of there," said Bobby "Junior" James. James reported that he was outside his home on Saturday afternoon when he saw dark smoke nearby. James went down the road to s...
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Allegedly drunk driver's car leaves roadway, unbelted passenger ejected, killed
JEANERETTE -- An allegedly drunk driver will be charged with vehicular homicide in a crash that killed her passenger. The accident happened about 1 a.m. Saturday on La. 182 north of La. 318. State ...
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Man hets 40 years on child porn counts
ALEXANDRIA – Oscar Stamper, 61, of Natchitoches, La., was sentenced to serve 40 years in federal prison for receiving child pornography. In addition to the prison term, Judge Dee Drell also senten...
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Medicaid cut cuts deep into community pharmacies
CROWLEY – If community pharmacies were waiting for things to get better with the Department of Health and Hospital’s (DHH) new plan for Medicaid reimbursement, they probably have realized by now th...
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Residents jittery as search for missing python continues
MONROE – Police searched but were unable Thursday to find a pregnant escapee. The search just off Martin Luther King Drive isn’t for a missing inmate. It’s for a 25-feet-long, yellow-and-white, pre...
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Jurors deadlocked on cop killer's fate
SHREVEPORT – A jury will try again Friday to determine cop killer Christopher Cope’s fate. The 10 women and two men could not reach a unanimous verdict in their penalty deliberations Thursday after...
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Coast Guard CWO gets five years on child porn charges
LAKE CHARLES – A Coast Guard chief warrant officer will serve five years in prison after pleading guilty to child pornography charges. Michael Robert Gleason, 50, of Houston, Texas and formerly of...
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Va. artist's work picked for La. duck stamp
BATON ROUGE – Ron Louque of Charlottesville, Va., captured first place Thursday in the 2013 Louisiana Waterfowl Conservation Stamp competition sponsored by the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and ...
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Mary Margaret a special Homecoming Queen
By Erin Foster LSN The story of this year’s West Feliciana High Homecoming Queen begins four years ago when a freshman made up his mind to one day escort a particular coed to the homecoming pep ra...
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