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CROWLEY - Diversity is a signature of The Great Race — diversity of people and diversity of competing vehicles. That’s what makes the event so attractive to fans and competitors alike.
Open to auto...
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BATON ROUGE – With the 2013 hurricane season officially underway, the LSU AgCenter’s LaHouse Home and Landscape Resource Center will showcase hurricane and flood-hardy features for both new and exi...
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ABBEVILLE – Fishing for Memories: A Benefit Rodeo for the Alzheimer’s Association beginning June 20 added a 14th category in response to the extension of the Red Snapper Season by NOAA. This additi...
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HOUMA – Attorney General Buddy Caldwell announced today that a Houma man was sentenced to 99 years at hard labor after pleading guilty to eight counts of molestation of a juvenile under the age of ...
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WISNER – A Wisner woman was killed in a car crash on Sunday night in Franklin Parish.
The dead woman was identified as 25-year-old Memory Roberts, said Louisiana State Police.
Roberts was driving a...
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Crimes committed in Louisiana and Colorado
SHREVEPORT – United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that William Lyman Agnew, 55, of Cripple Creek, Colo., was sentenced Tuesday by U.S. Di...
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NEW ORLEANS – Following the settlement of a class-action lawsuit, hundreds of people will have their name removed from Louisiana’s sex offender registry.
Those removed were convicted of soliciting ...
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Funeral services were held at Gossen Funeral Home Chapel June 17, 2013, at 3:00 p.m. for Joyce Theresa Guidry Porrier, 77, who died Friday, June 14, 2013, in Rayne Guest Home in Rayne.
Intermen...
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Funeral services will be held for Steven LeBlanc at 10:00 am on Saturday, June 22, 2013 at Wilturner Funeral Home in Crowley, LA. Visitation will be on Saturday from 8:00 am until the time of serv...
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Cattle industry promoter
SHREVEPORT – Services for cattle industry publicist and promoter Robert “Bob” Felknor will be Thursday. He died June 14 at age 70.
He was retired executive vice-president o...
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D-Day vet, police juror
HAYNESVILLE – Services for D-Day veteran and long-time police juror Jack Price will be Tuesday. He died June 15 at age 93.
He held the Purple Heart and was a Claiborne Paris...
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TV repair man
CARENCRO – Services for William “Bud” Chandler, Jr., who operated Acadiana’s first shop specializing in repairing color television sets and later owned a music store will be Saturday....
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A child from the WWII era has finally made it home safely today. Mrs. Emiko Komoda Trahan was born in Nagasaki, Japan and in 1970 she made Crowley her home. Mrs. Emiko passed away in her residence ...
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Crowley Police and Crowley City Court have outstanding arrest warrants for the following people. If you know their whereabouts call Crime Stoppers of Acadia Parish at 789-TIPS. It could lead to a c...
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RAYNE - Officers with the City of Rayne Police Department arrested Gary Berry of Biloxi, MS for Possession of Stolen Things valued over $500 and an outstanding warrant from Biloxi Police Department...
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The City of Rayne Police Department executed a search warrant at the residence of Nathaniel Laughlin, who is 27 years old, located at 702 Chappuis Street, Rayne LA on May 4, 2013. Officers located ...
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RAYNE - Officers with the City of Rayne Police Department arrested Nicolas Barron of Rayne for Simple Burglary and Possession of Stolen Goods.
Chief Carroll Stelly advised that on the night of May...
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The City of Rayne Police Department arrested Donovan Phillips, 19, for Resisting and Officer and Illegal Possession of a Stolen Firearm.
Chief Carroll Stelly advised that on April 29, 2013, Rayne ...
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Defendant receives 40 years in prison and lifetime supervised release
Alexandria, La.: United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that
Oscar Stamper, age 61, of Natchitoches, La., ...
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Marais Bouleur, the area northeast of Rayne, had a rough reputation early on. People who lived there didn't back away from anything, least of all each other. That's why they got to be called les ba...
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When we think of the history of Louisiana, French, Spanish, African, and Acadian influences immediately come to mind. We consider also the role of other European settlers -- Germans, Irish, Italian...
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Memorial Day weekend means it's time to start watching the Gulf. The beginning of hurricane season is less than a week ago, and the predictions are that this could be a mean one. Philip Klotzbach ...
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Fire was a huge hazard to south Louisiana communities in the days before modern firefighting equipment and good water supplies, when wooden homes and buildings were illuminated by oil lamps and can...
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It's hard to believe that today marks the tenth anniversary of the death of Mary Alice Fontenot, the newspaperwoman, teacher, and storyteller who knew and was known by practically everyone in Acad...
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Cinqo de Mayo, the fifth of May, commemorates the Mexican army's defeat of French forces at the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862, It was a huge victory for the Mexicans who were outnumbered two to ...
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Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 6 and a very busy ballot awaits taxpayers. With early voting underway, we remind everyone that there are nine state constitutional amendments on the ballot and one loc...
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You have seen and heard the candidates running for president. After a year or more of listening to all the rhetoric it is time to make a decision. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican, you shou...
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These are excerpts from the editorial in which we recommended Rep. Boustany in the 2008 election. Little has changed other than that his dedication to all the people in the Seventh District has rei...
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Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 6 and a very busy ballot awaits taxpayers. With early voting underway, we remind everyone that there are nine state constitutional amendments on the ballot and one loc...
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You like going to the corner drugstore when you need to pick up a few things - aspirin, cough medicine for the kids, shampoo, household items and your prescriptions - all in one stop. You might eve...
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Vote for Constitutional Amendment #1 . A vote for Constitutional Amendment #1 will protect TOPS funding by redirecting annual Tobacco Settlement proceeds from the Millennium Trust to its col...
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To say this week has been one of the stranger ones I’ve experienced during my six years is....well, for lack of a lesser used word, an understatement.
To begin with Easter Sunday was very nice. I k...
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There are a lot of folks confused about the recent report on the unemployment rate. Some have the audacity to suggest that the numbers have been rigged by the federal government at 7.8 percent (...
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Compare the free enterprise system with socialism. Capitalism, the free enterprise system and individual initiative made this country the greatest in the world where thousands, no millions strive t...
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A friend of mine sent the following letter to me from a professional engineer reportedly written to his employees.
It is rather lengthy but I believe it expresses the views of every business ...
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Happy Easter Acadia Parish!
It seems I say this every year but it bears repeating that today isn’t about rabbits, eggs, candy or barbecues. Today marks the date that Christians around the world ce...
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When I was around 13-years-old, the most popular video game in the history of the world at that time was called Asteroids (showing my age, right?). My parents would drop my buddies and me off at th...
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