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Retired teacher, blind man perish in house fire
PATTERSON — A retired St. Mary Parish educator perished along with another person in an early morning fire that destroyed both her home and a day care center next door in Patterson. Barbara Hall a...
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Suspect under $1.5 million bond for 150 counts of juvenile porn
WEST MONROE – Bond has been set at $1.5 million for a West Monroe man who was arrested and charged with 150 counts of possessing pornography involving juveniles, Attorney General Buddy Caldwell ann...
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Sen. Allain at I-49 South meeting.
I-49 South Coalition's next step: recruiting stakeholders willing to invest
PATTERSON — The I-49 South Coalition took a first step toward recruiting paying members for the push to complete I-49 South from Lafayette to New Orleans. State Sen. Bret Allain, R-Franklin, hosted...
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Veteran State Police sergeant booked on narcotics, other charges
MONROE – An eighteen-year veteran State Police sergeant has been arrested Monday by troopers from the agency’s Bureau of Investigation and charged him with a variety of criminal violations includin...
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SUV overturns, hits pole, two killed
ST. MARY PARISH -- Late Tuesday night, Troopers with Louisiana State Police Troop I investigated a single-vehicle crash on La. 182 at Sun Road, which killed two men. According to investigating tro...
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Blanco says Jindal's tax reform ignores more important issues
LAFAYETTE – Former Gov. Kathleen Blanco thinks the state should be more concerned about stopping the evisceration of higher education and health care funding than shifting its revenue structure fro...
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Cal State president choice for LSU post
BATON ROUGE – A search committee has recommended that LSU’s next system president and main campus chancellor should be F. King Alexander, president of California State University Long Beach. The c...
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Inmate who pleaded guilty as teen to killing parents, brother seeking re-sentencing
EUNICE – Chad L. Young, serving life in prison for the murder of his parents and a brother in Eunice, is undergoing psychiatric evaluation prior to seeking to have his sentence reconsidered. Young ...
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Unbelted passenger dies when Jeep hits tree
ROBERT--An overnight crash on Interstate 12 in Tangipahoa Parish on Saturday killed a 74-year-old Hammond resident and resulted in minor to moderate injuries to three additional passengers. The si...
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Car careening into living room a startling wake-up call
MAURICE — Steven and Tammy Marlin were sleeping soundly, only to be awakened to the sound of what a neighbor thought was thunder. “My husband thought it was a tornado,” Tammy Marlin said. “I though...
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Pit ban doesn't save puppy; Mamou council issues reminder
MAMOU – An ordinance prohibiting possession of pit bulls or pit bull-mix dogs didn’t do a puppy much good last week. According to Councilman Charles Reed, the puppy was killed by one of the banned ...
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Franklin CWO dies in Afghan chopper crash
Chief Warrant Officer Bryan J. Henderson, 27, of Franklin Parish died in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan on Monday, one of five killed in accident. Henderson was assigned to the 4th Battalion, 3...
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