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Jo-Jo Reed tells City Council officer had no reason to stop him, then impound vehicle
Alleged profiling again issue before Eunice council
Mayor Rusty Moody said he will check with other area mayors to see how they and their councils have handled recurring complaints about essentially autonomous police departments. Ward 2 City Council...
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Former detective facing perjury charge
BREAUX BRIDGE – Former Breaux Bridge Police Detective Raymond Calais has been arrested on suspicion of perjury during his testimony in an armed robbery case. The perjury charge was brought by the L...
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Alert detective prevents alleged monster from kidnapping child at Monster Truck Show
AMITE – An alert detective prevented a child from being abducted by one kind of alleged monster during a Monster Truck Show here. According to Chief Jerry Trabona, while working the south gate at t...
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Wilson
Rachel Wilson, Cameron Dupuy on Liberty bill
This Saturday, July 16, 2011, the weekly "Rendez-vous des Cajuns" Music Show will present a performances by RACHEL WILSON & Cajun Express, followed by 14-year-old CAMERON DUPUY and his band, the Ca...
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One St. Martin murder suspect nabbed in Georgia, second still on the lam
ST. MARTINVILLE – One of the suspects wanted in the murder of a Lafayette man found dead in Lake Martin is now in custody. "Late last night, officials with the U.S. Marshall's Fugitive Task Force ...
Jul 08, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 24 24 recommendations | email to a friend
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Duck hunting zones, seasons' split essentially unchanged
The Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission (LWFC) moved to maintain the two zones with split season arrangement for the 2011-2012 duck season at their July 7 meeting. Although expanded zones a...
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Fontenot
Eunice woman pockets $200K with Powerball ticket
While visiting her daughter and grandchildren for the Fourth of July, crawfish angler Julie Fontenot purchased a Powerball ticket on a whim. Distracted by the holiday weekend, she didn’t think abo...
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Board declares financial emergency, closes Adult Ed, leaves 34 teaching posts empty
Seventy-seven retiring St. Landry teachers were honored at a reception on Thursday. Thirty-four of them will not be replaced. That summarizes the school system’s financial predicament. The attritio...
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Mother, grandmother charged with horrendous abuse of two young girls found eating from garbage cans
MOSS BLUFF – The mother and grandmother of two young girls discovered eating food from a trash can have been jailed for a series of alleged cruelties to the sisters. Once the Dept. of Children and ...
Jul 07, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
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Jindal's executive branch hiring freeze includes higher ed, health care, state police
BATON ROUGE – Governor Bobby Jindal on Thursday announced a limited hiring freeze for the Executive Branch. The order prohibits the filling of any new or existing vacancies in executive branch posi...
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Kevin Thomas, left, was reunited with his biological mother, Shelia Richard, center.
Joyous reunion for mother searching for son given up for adoption 35 years ago
Lafayette resident Shelia Richard’s decades-long quest to find the son she was forced to give up for adoption has finally ended, here in Eunice. Richard reported this week that she has been reunite...
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Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal thanks surviving family members of deceased service members prior to signing into law House Bill 143 providing death and disability benefits for any National Guardsmen killed or disabled in the line of duty after 9/11 at Camp Beauregard in Pineville, La., July 5, 2011. House Bill 143 provides $250,000 to the survivor’s beneficiary in the event of death or $100,000 for a one hundred percent disability as determined by the Department of Veterans Affairs. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Master Sgt. Toby M. Valadie, Louisiana National Guard Public Affairs Office/Released)
Jindal signs benefits bill for deceased, disabled Guardsmen, their families
By Sgt. Rebekah Malone Louisiana National Guard Public Affairs Office PINEVILLE, La. – Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal signed into law House Bill 143 providing 32 death benefits for the families ...
Jul 06, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 19 19 recommendations | email to a friend
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