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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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Biker killed when his Harley enters I-20 in wrong direction
WEST MONROE – A West Monroe man was killed when he drove his motorcycle the wrong way onto an I-10 exit ramp, hitting an 18-wheeler head-on. State Police said the accident happened at the Camp Road...
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Perp says he'd sexually exploit kids again, judge gives him life
SHREVEPORT – United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley said Wednesday that four additional defendants were sentenced Tuesday, one receiving life for their involvement in an international criminal ...
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Teen dies from electrocution
DELCAMBRE - A teenager died Tuesday night as a result of electrocution on Saturday. Matthew Duhon-Gary, 14, was electrocuted while cleaning his four-wheeler, officials said. He was a freshman at De...
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Swamp people use Swampeater to attack hydrilla choking waterways
MARKSVILLE – South Louisiana may have its “swamp people” but Avoyelles has its own “swamp weed eaters.” A new aquatic harvesting machine may be the answer to the problem of hydrilla growth in Sprin...
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