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Woman leaves two young children in car while she goes in Ville Platte store
VILLE PLATTE – A second parent within a week has been charged after leaving children unattended in a parked vehicle while she shopped. According to Police Chief Neal Lartigue, officers responding t...
Jun 22, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 18 18 recommendations | email to a friend
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Man wanting better service takes assault rifle into night club
AMITE – A patron disgruntled over allegedly poor service thought an assault rifle would command more attention. According to Tangipahoa Sheriff Daniel Edwards, deputies on Saturday night observed P...
Jun 21, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
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Farmer discovers Harley, its dead driver in Jeff Davis irrigation canal
JENNINGS – A farmer discovered a motorcycle and the body of its driver in an irrigation canal three days after the accident. According to State Police, Steven Marx, 39, of Jennings was killed in th...
Jun 20, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 17 17 recommendations | email to a friend
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Unbelted driver ejected, killed when truck overturns
MELVILLE – An unbelted driver died when his pickup left the road and overturned Sunday morning. State Police said Sam Yander, 38, was driving on La. 105 near Coulon Street when his truck failed to ...
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Man leaves infant in car, shops at Walmart
VILLE PLATTE – A man who left an infant in a sweltering auto while he shopped in Walmart was booked into the Evangeline Parish jail. According to police, Zachary Fitzgerald, 34, Highway 167 North,...
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A Chrysler 300 sits where it came to rest after being struck by a train in Eunice Sunday night. The woman occupying the front passenger seat was killed.
Train hits car sitting on Eunice track; Lake Charles woman killed, two passengers critically injured; driver may have been drunk
A Lake Charles woman was killed and two other people critically injured when the car driven by her husband was hit by a train in Eunice Sunday night. Police said the car was sitting on the track ne...
Jun 19, 2011 | 1 1 comments | 27 27 recommendations | email to a friend
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33-year firefighter and five-year Eunice Chief Wayne Lavergne.
Lavergne, fire chief for five years, retiring
His wife told Wayne Lavergne to put up or shut up. He’s putting up, and will retire from the Eunice fire chief’s job on July 31. He reached full pension retirement status three years ago and has be...
Jun 17, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 16 16 recommendations | email to a friend
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Savoy, bridge-jumping kidnapper, gets 12 years
Mark Savoy will serve 12 years in prison for the second-degree kidnapping of his estranged wife and the flight from police that ensued, ending when he jumped from a bridge in the Atchafalaya Basin....
Jun 16, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 24 24 recommendations | email to a friend
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St. Landry Council still searching for happy trails
The St. Landry Parish Council changed horses Wednesday night, then changed again, leaving the same burr under the saddle. Clearly vexed by the continuing hassle over trail rides -- when, how often,...
Jun 16, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
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Avoyelles shoplifting complaint leads to seizure of $500,000 cash and drugs
LSN MARKSVILLE – Over a half million dollars in cash was seized from what began as a shoplifting report involving two sisters. The amount is believed to be largest amount of cash ever handled by an...
Jun 15, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 28 28 recommendations | email to a friend
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Backyard gator
Big dog alerts woman to even bigger gator in Catahoula backyard
ST. MARTINVILLE – Misti Poché was getting ready for work when she heard the family dog, Marley, barking in the back yard. Something was amiss. Marley, a Great Pyrenese, is a big, calm dog that almo...
Jun 13, 2011 | 1 1 comments | 34 34 recommendations | email to a friend
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St. Landry board will follow attorney's advice - whatever it is
The St. Landry Parish School Board voted Thursday to follow its attorney’s advice in further handling of the desegregation matter, whatever that advice might be. The board in closed session heard ...
Jun 03, 2011 | 1 1 comments | 22 22 recommendations | email to a friend
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