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Wesley
Wesley takes Baton Rouge Chamber post
BATON ROUGE – The Baton Rouge Area Chamber (BRAC) announced Wednesday that Erin Monroe Wesley will assume the role of executive vice president and chief operating officer (EVP/COO) for the organiza...
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SANE will assist sexual assault victims in St. Martin
BREAUX BRIDGE – A team of professionals in health care and law enforcement is developing a program that would tend to the victim’s physical and emotional needs while making the criminal investigati...
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Breaux
Driver who killed woman still at-large
GUEYDAN – Six months after she was run over police apparently have no active leads to who killed Amy Breaux. She and her fiance were hit by an unknown hit-and-run driver in August 2013 and her daug...
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Nicole Hebert
Bond reduced from woman whose shotgun allegedly misfired
ABBEVILLE – Bond had been reduced for a woman who allegedly tried to kill her sister, failing when the gun did not fire. Nicole Hebert’s bond was dropped from $160,000 Thursday to a total of $46,00...
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EWE no longer under federal supervison
BATON ROUGE – Former Gov. Edwin Edwards is now out from under the federal corrections system thumb. U.S. Dist. Judge Brian Jackson on Wednesday approved terminating Edwards’ court supervision. He w...
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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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