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Alleged pot farmer busted in Basile
BASILE – The drought apparently wasn’t hurting an alleged pot farmer’s crop. Evangeline Parish Sheriff’s Office Detectives arrested Connie M. Fuselier for alleged possession of Schedule II narcotic...
Aug 26, 2011 | 1 1 comments | 39 39 recommendations | email to a friend
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Evangeline gets $1.5 million for disaster recovery costs
The Louisiana Office of Community Development - Disaster Recovery Unit has awarded $1,519,484 in disaster recovery funding to Evangeline Parish for five infrastructure projects, allowing parish off...
Aug 25, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 22 22 recommendations | email to a friend
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Bridge jumper wrong, his alleged victim survived; jumper didn't
HENDERSON – The body of a man who thought he had shot another to death was found in the Atchafalaya River on Wednesday after he jumped from a bridge two days earlier. Police said Jontrell Ford, 27,...
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Cameron Industries worker dies in accident
VILLE PLATTE – Details remain sketchy regarding an accident that killed a worker here Wednesday. The accident happened about 11 a.m. at Cameron Industries. Killed was a 60-year-old employee whose i...
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Man held on two counts of alleged child rape
COTTONPORT – City Police on Tuesday announced the arrest of a 42-year-old male for the alleged rape of a minor child. The investigation began on August 9 when family members contacted the police d...
Aug 23, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 45 45 recommendations | email to a friend
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Houma attorney dies after his plane crashes in Oregon
HOUMA – Long-time maritime and personal injury attorney Louis St. Marin died after his airplane crashed Sunday at Brookings, Ore. St. Martin, 63, was flying a single-engine, four seat plane alone w...
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Man apparently jumps into Atchafalaya River after allegedly shooting another
SIMMESPORT – Officials think a Point Coupee man may have jumped from an Atchafalaya River bridge after allegedly shooting someone at a night club. The shooting occurred early Monday at a private pa...
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Woman stabs, kills intruder; his alleged accomplice held
AMITE – Tangipahoa Parish sheriff’s deputies say a man who allegedly broke into a home and assaulted the owner died after a woman in the home stabbed him several times with a kitchen knife. Deputie...
Aug 23, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 25 25 recommendations | email to a friend
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Darryl Hebert, senior legal counsel for Hancock Bank, holds a recent newspaper article on an instance of elder financial abuse in Louisiana.
Bank legal counsel reports increase in elder financial abuse
Darryl Hebert, senior legal counsel for Hancock Bank, told Eunice Kiwanians that one of the least-talked about forms of elder abuse, financial abuse, is becoming increasingly more prevalent. Accor...
Aug 22, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 35 35 recommendations | email to a friend
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Stretch of I10 to be one lane only nightly for three weeks
Beginning Wednesday, August 24, 2011, I-10 in Lafayette and St. Martin Parish will be reduced to one lane nightly for a moving operation in the eastbound and westbound directions. The work will tak...
Aug 22, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 34 34 recommendations | email to a friend
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Development message unchanged: City needs first to clean up
The message started with a visiting economic development consultant’s observation last summer, and it hasn’t changed. Eunice needs to clean up. That consultant, otherwise complimentary of the city,...
Aug 19, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 27 27 recommendations | email to a friend
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Alleged mule stopped carrying 14 pounds of coke near Welsh
WELSH – A driver allegedly following another too close on I-10 had more than 14 pounds of cocaine in his car, State Police said. Troopers stopped John Flores, 35, of San Antonio early Friday when t...
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