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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...
Nov 23, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 28 28 recommendations | email to a friend
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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...
Nov 18, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 31 31 recommendations | email to a friend
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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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Budke
Former Techsters coach, assistant die in Okla. State plane crash
RUSTON – Former Louisiana Tech and current Oklahoma State women's basketball coach Kurt Budke and former Techsters assistant Miranda Serna died in a plane crash Thursday night along with two others...
Nov 18, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 17 17 recommendations | email to a friend
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Judge says evidence valid against alleged child killer
MANSFIELD - Information from the telephone of a man who allegedly posed a girl to lure a young boy to his cab before killing him can be used at trial. Dist. Judge Robert Burgess ruled Wednesday aga...
Nov 17, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 35 35 recommendations | email to a friend
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Kaplan man, daughter just keep running
KAPLAN — It is said that life is a marathon, not a sprint. That can be taken almost literally for Boyd and Olivia Girouard. The father and daughter from Kaplan have run a combined 19 marathons. An...
Nov 17, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 22 22 recommendations | email to a friend
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