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Spilled cucumbers snarl holiday interstate travelers
GROSS TETE – An accident which spilled thousands of cucumbers on the highway snarled traffic for 30 miles on Interstate 10 Sunday. On the heaviest traffic day of the year, travelers were delayed af...
Nov 28, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 19 19 recommendations | email to a friend
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Louisiana National Guardsman Sgt. 1st Class Shawn Kell hugs her daughter, Shelby, with her husband, John, and daughter, Austyn, during a return-home celebration of the 415th Military Intelligence Battalion at the Gillis W. Long Center in Carville, La., Nov. 23, 2011. The battalion was deployed to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom to conduct counterintelligence operations throughout Afghanistan. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Master Sgt. Toby M. Valadie, Louisiana National Guard Public Affairs Office/Released
Guard unit returns from year-long Afghan duty
By Staff Sgt. Denis B. Ricou Louisiana National Guard Public Affairs Office BATON ROUGE – Approximately 120 Louisiana National Guard Soldiers from the 415th Military Intelligence Battalion return...
Nov 23, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 34 34 recommendations | email to a friend
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Frey
Mountain-hopping in Papua a far cry from Mowata rice fields
EUNICE – Farming is in Patrick Frey’s genes, but evangelism is in his spirit. Consequently, the Mowata native left the farm and answered the calling and is now serving God for New Tribes Mission i...
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La. leaps in Forbes 'best states' list
BATON ROUGE – Louisiana vaulted 14 positions in the latest Forbes ranking of “Best States For Business,” capping a year in which the state climbed to its highest-ever business climate ranking by ev...
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Judges uphold citizen right to make DUI arrest, perp stays in prison
NEW ORLEANS – An appeals court says private citizens can arrest other motorists suspected of driving under the influence of alcohol (DUI). The ruling came Tuesday in a case from Westwego. On Dec. 3...
Nov 22, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 30 30 recommendations | email to a friend
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Man accused of stabbing his mother to death has mental disorders history
BOSSIER CITY -- A man previously diagnosed with mental disorders is accused for stabbing his mother to death. Christopher Holder had been committed for psychiatric evaluation twice this year. Holde...
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Women held in strangling death of mother/grandmother
ST. MARTINVILLE – Two women are charged with allegedly strangling their mother/grandmother and leaving her body at Lake Martin. Police said no bond has yet been set for Toni Dupuis or her daughter ...
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First 10 grand gets confiscated Harley
ERATH - The Erath Police Department is normally not in the market of seizing and then selling what it seized, but this is an exception. Two years ago the police department stopped Scotty Romero of ...
Nov 19, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 29 29 recommendations | email to a friend
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Python escapes parrot cage, slithers about a half-mile before re-capture
SPRINGFIELD -- A city worker found a python that had slithered about a half-mile after escaping its cage 18 hours earlier. The 12-foot, 80 lb. albino Burmese python was discovered along LA 22 in S...
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Matthew Conway
Jury convicts in case of shot, burned Vick man; four other defendants plead guilty
MARKSVILLE – A murder conviction closes the case of a Vick man who was burned to death after five people high on synthetic drugs lured him to a robbery. Matthew T. Conway was convicted of the seco...
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High School ROTC instructor dies in rappelling fall
ZACHARY – The Army JROTC instructor at Northeast High School died Nov. 17 when he fell from a rappelling wall at Camp Avondale in Clinton, accordign to the East Feliciana Sheriff’s Office. Retired ...
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Elderly man dies in Eunice house fire
A Friday morning fire claimed the life of an elderly man and set a Third Street house ablaze. At 7:27 a.m., the Eunice Fire Department responded to a report of a fire at 711 N. Third Street. Firefi...
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