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Alleged crawfish swindle allegedly nets $120,000
OPELOUSAS – A man faces more than 100 counts from alleged crawfish swindle. Police said Wendell Mason, 44, of Opelousas was arrested on 58 counts of theft and 53 counts of felony theft. He is alleg...
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Two children die when car crashes into bayou; two others, driver swim to safety
GONZALES – Two children were killed and two others survived when their car crashed into a bayou late Tuesday. State Police said sheriff’s deputies arriving first at the scene were unable to rescue ...
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Caddo commissioners put proposed PJ law to rest
SHREVEPORT – The Caddo Parish commissioners aren’t interested in becoming pajama police. The panel on Tuesday voted 8-4 not to put on its agenda a proposed ordinance to ban wearing PJs in public. M...
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Man slips from float trailer tongue, run over and killed
NEW ROADS – Investigation continues into the death a man who fell from a Mardi Gras float on Tuesday. State Ppolice said the accident happened following the New Roads parade on Fat Tuesday. Investi...
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Eunice man dies after head-on crash
A Eunice man died at a hospital from injuries suffered about sunrise Monday. State Police said a truck crossed the center line at the La. 13-La. 29 curve-intersection and hit another shortly before...
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10 cited in alleged deer-poaching activity
SALINE– Wildlife agents have cited 10 persons with alleged poaching activity that killed at least 15 deer. The violations occurred from December 2011 through February 2012 in Webster and Bienville ...
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Five teens charged in cyberbullying, battery case
PORT BARRE – Four teenagers, one a juvenile, are charged with the cyberbulling of a Port Barre boy. A fifth teen is accused of battery. Police say the youth was attacked on two days while at school...
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St. Landry board rejects school budget cuts on tie vote
Dist. 6 member Ronald Carrier tried to get a vote early in the raucous St. Landry School Board meeting on Thursday. He was ruled out of procedural order and when he subsequently had to leave, budge...
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Woman returns home to find smouldering ruins of home, estranged husband a suspect
ABBEVILLE – When Jessica Sonnier left her house Thursday night with her five-old-son because her estranged husband was in her house, she did not expect to return the next morning and see her house ...
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Consultants say merge La. Tech and LSU-Shreveport (and pigs might fly)
SHREVEPORT – Consultants recommend consolidating Louisiana Tech University and LSU-Shreveport to improve educational opportunities to the underserved in northwest Louisiana. The report by Virginia-...
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Man accused of lewd acts with a grandchild arrested at airport
PORT BARRE – A man accused of child molestation was nabbed Thursday as he prepared to board an airplane in Lafayette. Police said Richard Spears is accused for engaging in lewd acts with one of his...
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Body of driver recovered from Bayou Teche
LEONVILLE – State Police suspect impairment as a factor in the case of a man who drove into Bayou Teche on Wednesday night. Joseph Charles, Jr., 36, of Opelousas ran a stop sign at La. 103 and Chur...
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