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Bailie and Gwen Reed before leaving for St. Jude's.
Bailie's battle begins again
By Myra Miller myra.miller@eunicetoday.com Bailie Reed is a typical teenager who talks on her cell phone, texts friends, reads and posts on Facebook, has a boyfriend and wants to attend high schoo...
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Coreil named interim chancellor at LSU Alexandria
ALEXANDRIA – Paul Coreil, vice chancellor and director of the Louisiana Cooperative Extension Service for the LSU AgCenter since 2001, has been named Interim Chancellor at LSU Alexandria, it was an...
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Father gets five years in accident that killed his child
ABBEVILLE – A man whose four-year-old child was not in a car seat when killed in an accident in which the father was the driver will serve five years in prison. Bryan Adams was sentenced after plea...
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Larto-Saline weir break closed, water loss stopped
LARTO – A breech in the Cross Bayou Weir, which helps regulate flow into and out of the Larto-Saline Lakes Complex, was plugged Monday. The Department of Wildlife and Fisheries retained Riverside C...
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Larry Harrington
Man charged with murder of son
ABBEVILLE -- A Vermilion Parish man is charged with the second-degree murder of his son. Police allege that Larry Harrington, 67, shot and killed MaCade Harrington, 40, during a family argument. Th...
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Pickup leaves road, hits culvert, overturns, driver dies
MARKSVILLE - State Police say a Bunkie man was killed Saturday in a single vehicle crash on Louisiana Highway 29. State police say in a news release that 47-year-old Kenneth M. Aymond was killed w...
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Deaths Elsewhere
Long-time sheriff GONZALES – Services were Feb. 2 for former Sheriff Harold Tridico. He died Jan. 31 at age 86. He was US Navy veteran of World War II. He was with the Assumption Parish Sheriff’s ...
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Cleanup to resume at Marine Shale site
BATON ROUGE - Cleanup activities are set to commence again soon at the Marine Shale Processors site in St. Mary Parish. The cleanup will involve dismantling portions of the facility and disposing...
Jan 31, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 32 32 recommendations | email to a friend
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Three missing a month found in submerged vehicle
TALLULAH – A car containing three people missing for almost a month was pulled from the Tensas River west of here Wednesday. State Police said two of the victims, driver Eddie Cobb Jr., 68, and bac...
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Weir wash-out threatens Larto-Saline Lakes complex
LARTO – A low-water dam that regulates flow of quality river water into the vast Larto-Saline Lakes complex east of Alexandria has failed, causing a continuing substantial drop in the lakes’ water ...
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Judge approves BP criminal case settlement
NEW ORLEANS – A federal judge on Tuesday signed off on the government's settlement with BP on criminal charges. BP will plead guilty to manslaughter and other charges and pay a record $4 billion i...
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LSU whistleblower sues, saying she was fired for coming reporting alleged violations
BATON ROUGE – Margaret Herster, a former LSU School of Art faculty member, filed a suit on Jan., alleging University administrators fired her for reporting violations of state and federal law inclu...
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