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La. Guard has newest emergency response force package
PINEVILLE – Louisiana has a new National Guard resource for immediate emergency mass casualty response that will significantly increase disaster reaction for local, state and federal agencies. T...
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Huddling during Fire and Police Civil Service Board meeting are members, from left, Jan Ward, Fire Capt. Keith Vidrine and Police Lt. Donnie Thibodeaux.
Board cuts officer's pay loss for failure to log complaint
The Fire and Police Civil Service Board cut a communication officer’s loss of pay in half for admitted violation of policy after concluding she was not the only person at fault. Angelique LeBoeuf a...
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Man charged with rape, carnal knowledge of teen runaway
IOWA – A Lake Charles man is charged with rape and carnal knowledge after allegedly harboring a runaway and forcing himself on her. Iowa police recovered the 16-year-old girl who alleged told them ...
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Bivens
Would-be bandits shoot resisting woman with nail-loaded flare gun
BAKER – Two men who allegedly shot a woman with a nail-loaded flare gun after she refused to give up her purse face several charges. The robbery attempt occurred near Walmart on Plank Road in Baker...
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Landry
Abbeville teen allegedly pumps four shots into man after fight, flees, captured
ABBEVILLE – A man who allegedly fired four shots into his victim Thursday night i charged with attempted first degree murder. Police said Quincy Landry, 19, and his victim were in a fight after wh...
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Chief Ronald Dies inspecting the newest crack in cinder block walls of Police Department, this one in the Eunice jail.
Cracking walls, floors raise concerns about police headquarters
Another worrisome crack has appeared in the last two weeks in the cinder block walls of the Eunice Police Department. The department’s portion of City Hall has been shifting and settling for severa...
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Deaths Elsewhere
LSU’s first black professor BATON ROUGE – Services will be Saturday in Alexandria for Julian T. White, the first black faculty member of LSU. He died July 19 at age 73. White, who operated W.A. Whi...
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Roemer makes it official - he's a presidential candidate
Former Gov. Charles "Buddy" Roemer kicked off his Republican presidential campaign Thursday in New Hampshire. Though his speech at Dartmouth College marked the official start to his campaign, Roeme...
Jul 21, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 33 33 recommendations | email to a friend
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Dupuis
Compassion not part of public payroll law, Erath mayor learns
ERATH - Compassion is provided for in the Good Book, not the state law book. Consequently, a city employee has re-paid salary he drew even when not working. Erath Mayor George Dupuis said he did no...
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Citizens take Eunice jail complaints to sheriff, state and federal agencies
Eunice residents concerned about alleged mistreatment of inmates in the City Jail are taking their complaints to parish, state and federal officials. Two of the most outspoken, George Fisher and Cl...
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Developers pitch $500 million project to receptive Zachary officials
ZACHARY – Developers have begun the process of wooing city officials for support of their proposed $500 million project on the west end of the city. Representatives of the Daigle-Americana Develop...
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'Snake man' returned to La. for bond hearing; wife still at large
OAKDALE – A man charged in Kinder last year with 21 counts of felony cruelty to animals after a raid on his reptile farm has been returned to Allen Parish for a bond hearing this week. David Beauch...
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