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Gerald
Drunk driver gets 70 years for killing seven after birthday binge
LSN CLINTON -- It was an emotional day in court Tuesday when Judicial District Judge William G. Carmichael sentenced Brett Gerald, 30, to 70 years in prison for killing seven people in a drunk dri...
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Retriver wins chase, black bear apparently wins tangle
PATTERSON -- Gauge, a Chesapeake Bay retriever, is recovering after squaring off with a bear south of the railroad tracks in Patterson. He got into a fight with a Louisiana black bear Tuesday night...
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Driver on bond in traffic fatality charged with OWI
LAFAYETTE – A driver out on bond on a charge of vehicular homicide was charged with Operating Under Influence by Lafayette police last week. Dallas Fabre, 49, is accused of being drunk when the veh...
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Fisher
Educator, civil rights activist killed in head-on collision
Eunice retired educator and civil rights activist George Fisher was killed Sunday night when his vehicle was hit head-on by a pickup truck driven by an unlicensed and suspected impaired driver on L...
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Cans tipped by Patterson bears.
There are new garbage collectors in town -- black bears
PATTERSON — Black bears are no longer just searching for food south of the railroad tracks in the city. The bears have now made their way to other parts of the city, Mayor Rodney Grogan said. “We m...
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Grotheer
Wrong number leads to woman allegedly selling her child's meds
ABBEVILLE – A woman faces several charges after allegedly selling an undercover agent her child’s medications in a deal arranged through a wrong-number phone call. Vermillion/Municipal Narcotics Ta...
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Logan
232-HELP referral center has new leadership, director
LAFAYETTE – A new board of directors and executive committee have been announced to lead 232-Help, an education and referral center based in Acadiana to identify, catalogue and better connect those...
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LSU launches on-line graduate school program
BATON ROUGE – A new, completely Web-based, distance-learning initiative was launched Monday by Louisiana State University. LSU Online’s initial launch offers graduate students a choice of three ma...
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8-year-old packs loaded pistol in book sack
MONROE – An 8-year-old student was expelled after taking a loaded .22-caliber pistol to school Monday. Monroe Police said the boy was a student at Madison James Foster Elementary School. The scho...
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Horse virus outbreak has La. officials' on watch
BATON ROUGE — Louisiana agriculture officials are monitoring an outbreak of Equine Herpes Virus-1 at the Horse Shows in the Sun equestrian event last month in Ocala, Fla., keeping Louisiana horses ...
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Boustany rules out run against Landrieu
WASHINGTON – Rep. Charles Boustany (R-La.), fresh off an expensive re-election campaign, announced Monday that he will not run for Senator Mary Landreiu’s seat next year. Boustany had been floated ...
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Rockerfeller fish lab, complex, at last, to be rebuilt
NEW ORLEANS - The Federal Emergency Management Agency has announced more than $1 million in recovery aid to build a new Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge Fish Lab and Fish Lab Complex, which were destroy...
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