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Three held after allegedly stealing truck, fleeing accident
OPELOUSAS – Three teenagers who allegedly tried fleeing the police chief in a stolen car were jailed on felony charges. Opelousas police received a call early Sunday afternoon from a woman advising...
Dec 31, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 20 20 recommendations | email to a friend
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Teen playing with pistol shoots, kills another
BASTROP – A teenager faces a negligent homicide after allegedly accidentally shooting and killing another. Morehouse Parish deputies responding to a call determined Caleb Frisby, 17, and Michael Jo...
Dec 28, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 23 23 recommendations | email to a friend
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The Spillman family
'Coach' Spillman preparing for heart transplant
By Stacy Gill LSN ZACHARY – Widely known former Louisiana and Mississippi high school football Coach Brian Spillman, 39, of Zachary, suffers from coronary artery disease and is in dire need of a h...
Dec 27, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 23 23 recommendations | email to a friend
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Momentum builds for push to complete I-49 Lafayette to New Orleans
MORGAN CITY -- Supporters of completing Interstate 49 from Lafayette to New Orleans are working to pull together a nonprofit coalition with a full-time executive director to help move the project f...
Dec 27, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 28 28 recommendations | email to a friend
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Mitchell
Man gets mandatory life on cocaine charge
ABBEVILLE – A three-time loser has been sentenced to life in prison for selling cocaine. Assistant District Attorney F. Stanton Hardee, III prosecuted Tyrone Mitchell, 41, of Abbeville as a third t...
Dec 27, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 23 23 recommendations | email to a friend
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Sister charged in stabbing death of Baker man
BAKER – A 22-year-old man died Christmas morning from injuries he sustained after his younger sister stabbed him, an East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office spokesperson said. According to Tomeka Lathers...
Dec 27, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 22 22 recommendations | email to a friend
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Louisiana students facing more rigorous testing
BATON ROUGE, La. — Louisiana’s public schools are starting a three-year shift to more rigorous testing of public school students, using a set of uniform standards that education officials say are d...
Dec 26, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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The historic cemetery behind the National Hansen’s Disease Museum in Carville contains graves of about 1,000 patients who were buried on site. People from throughout the nation who were infected with the disease more commonly known as leprosy were sent to be quarantined in Louisiana. LSU Manship News Service/Kevin Thibodeaux
Louisiana once was center of leprosy treatment in U.S.
By KEVIN THIBODEAUX LSU Manship News Service CARVILLE, La. — Once relegated to the outskirts of society, the National Hansen’s Disease Program, centered in Baton Rouge, is attempting to bring the d...
Dec 26, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Louisiana news briefs
N.Y. woman arrested in 1984 La. death BATON ROUGE — A 47-year-old woman arrested by New York authorities on Dec. 3 in the 1984 slaying of businessman has been extradited to Louisiana. Leila Mulla...
Dec 24, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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Louisiana news briefs
Terrebonne gives $2 million to hospital HOUMA The Terrebonne Parish Council has voted to give $2 million to the Leonard J. Chabert Medical Center. The funding, discussed for weeks, is part of a d...
Dec 21, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Louisiana hospice cuts worse than previously announced
BATON ROUGE (AP) — Louisiana’s health department is acknowledging that planned cuts in the state’s Medicaid program will eliminate hospice care for all Medicaid recipients beginning in February. Ho...
Dec 21, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Alleged thief knocks Walmart employee to ground, seriously injuring her, and flees
ABBEVILLE – An elderly woman checking customers’ baskets as they leave Walmart was seriously injured when knocked down by an alleged teen thief. The woman, name not released, was allegedly knocked...
Dec 21, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 42 42 recommendations | email to a friend
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