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Couple held in Pine Prairie bank robbery
PINE PRAIRIE – A Pine Prairie couple has been arrested in connection with a bank robbery here Wednesday. Brian Keith Soileau and his wife Anna are also being investigated in connection with theft o...
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Bandit shoots Kentwood woman making night deposit
KENTWOOD – An employee from Popeye's Fried Chicken in Kentwood was shot while attempting to make a late night deposit after closing Tuesday, Aug. 2. According to Kentwood Chief of Police Greg Newto...
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LifeCare buys Ruston hospital
RUSTON – North Louisiana Specialty Hospital has been sold to LifeCare Holdings. The Plano, Texas firm says it will retain the 300 employees. The hospital has satellite locations in Farmerville and ...
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Man guilty of killing, sawing up World War II vet
SHREVEPORT – A jury found Eric Mickelson guilty of killing and then chopping into pieces an elderly man. First-degree murder was the verdict Wednesday in the death of Charles Martin, an 86-year-old...
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Motocycle-riding bandit strikes Pine Prairie bank
PINE PRAIRIE – Citizens Bank in Pine Prairie was robbed at gun point at approximately 12 noon Wednesday. Police were on the lookout for a white male wearing a bandana and possibly riding a black pe...
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Man tries to steal copper at substation, electrocuted
HOUMA – A Houman man died when electrocuted trying to steal copper wire from an electric utility substation. Terrebone sheriff's deputies said Timothy Lewis, 34, broke through a fence at the distri...
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In the wee, small hours of the morning ... K-9 nabs fleeing naked peeper
WALKER – A man roaming a neighborhood naked, breaking into some homes and peeping into others, then riding a stolen lawn mower to his get away truck, faces several charges. Jason Clayton, 35, of De...
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Winn sheriff under federal drug indictment, state also investigating his office
SHREVEPORT – Sheriff A.D. “Bodie” Little is among 11 suspects in an alleged drug-trafficking scheme indicted by a federal grand jury in Shreveport, accused of organizing the distribution of more th...
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Quartet allegedly cooking in Mamou, but it wasn't gumbo
MAMOU – Something was cooking at an 8th Street house and police allege it wasn’t gumbo. Four people were arrested Monday after authorities, acting on a tip, raided the residence at 229 8th and alle...
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Judge Richard T. Haik shows Eunice City Council members and members of the public an architectural depiction of the proposed improvements to City Lake, to be paid for by the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Foundation from train derailment settlement funds.
You get a line, I'll get a pole and we'll go to the new fishing hole -- $1.1 million to makeover Eunice City Lake
Every cloud has a silver lining, and good things can even come out of catastrophies, Judge Richard T. Haik told Eunice elected officials and audience members Tuesday evening as he presented a $1.1 ...
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2 Eunice men held in home invasion, theft; third sought
Two Eunice men are in custody and a third is sought in the invasion of a St. Landry Parish home and subsequent theft of guns, jewelry and a safe, and a truck to carry it in. Deputies said the unide...
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Help sought in stolen truck probe
St. Landry Crime Stoppers needs help finding two men and a stolen truck. On July 9, Eunice police were called to Manuel's used car lot at 1242 West Laurel Avenue to investigate a stolen truck. A wh...
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