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Transocean claims its shielded by BP contract from spill costs, fines or damages
NEW ORLEANS – Transocean Limited, the company that owned the drilling rig that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico last year, is arguing that its contract with BP shields it from having to pay for the l...
Nov 01, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 30 30 recommendations | email to a friend
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Mother's boyfriend charged with two-year-old's murder
SHREVEPORT – The boyfriend of his mother is charged with first-degree murder of a two-year-old boy. Tristan Anderson, 26, was arrested Friday afer the boy's body was found in a locked shed on Thurs...
Oct 21, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 46 46 recommendations | email to a friend
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Attention focuses on electric space heater in fatal fire
VILLE PLATTE – The Louisiana State Fire Marshal's Office has released information in reference to an early morning residential fire that claimed the life of one person. The Ville Platte Fire Depart...
Oct 19, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
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Senate 28 campaign funding no contest
Sen. Eric LaFleur has overwhelmed Dr. Paul Miller in the campaign financing aspect of Saturday’s District 28 primary election. Reports filed with the Louisiana Ethics Administration indicate LaFleu...
Oct 19, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 26 26 recommendations | email to a friend
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Teen girls run over by allegedly drunk driver facing extended recovery
Two teenagers run over by an allegedly drunk former New Orleans Saints player Saturday are expected by their mothers to be hospitalized for some time in Lafayette. One of the girls, whose femur was...
Oct 18, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 47 47 recommendations | email to a friend
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Drivers in I10 accident that killed two women, five children blaming each other
BATON ROUGE – The drivers involved in an alleged road-rage-related crash that killed a former Eunice woman and her three children, as well as another woman, are blaming each other. David Ryan Leger...
Oct 18, 2011 | 2 2 comments | 27 27 recommendations | email to a friend
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ULL business school labeled outstanding by Princeton Review
University of Louisiana Lafayette's B.I. Moody III College of Business Administration has an outstanding business school, according to The Princeton Review. The education services company features ...
Oct 18, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 20 20 recommendations | email to a friend
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Snake breeder gets jail term, co-defendent wife remains at large
OBERLIN – An Oakdale snake-breeder has been sentenced to a year in jail but his wife and co-defendent continues to give the law the slip. David Beauchemin was given two years in jail with one year...
Oct 18, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 23 23 recommendations | email to a friend
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Alleged bank robber climbs across razor wire, escapes
PINE PRAIRIE – Alleged bank robber Brian Keith Soileau remains at large after escaping from the state correctional facility here. He was arrested for allegedly robbing Citizens Bank in Pine Prairie...
Oct 17, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 27 27 recommendations | email to a friend
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Two Opelousas juveniles charged in horse thefts, animal cruelty
Agriculture and Forestry Commissioner Mike Strain, D.V.M., said Livestock Brand Commission Inspectors and the St. Landry Parish Sheriff’s Office arrested two Opelousas juveniles Oct. 10-11 for live...
Oct 17, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 19 19 recommendations | email to a friend
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Motorcycle rider killed when bike hits 18-wheeler's trailer blocking roadway
St. Martin Parish - Sunday night, Louisiana State Police Troop I investigated a two-vehicle fatal crash on US 90 east of LA 92. The crash claimed the life of a New Iberia man. According to investi...
Oct 17, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 16 16 recommendations | email to a friend
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At large suspect currently being sought by numerous law enforcement agencies outside of Kentwood
Kaumba McGee, 36, is currently on the loose from Washington Parish Sheriff's Office near Highway 38 East in Kentwood (river bridge). According to TPSO, a traffic stop was initiated on the suspect f...
Oct 13, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 26 26 recommendations | email to a friend
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