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Houma attorney dies after his plane crashes in Oregon
HOUMA – Long-time maritime and personal injury attorney Louis St. Marin died after his airplane crashed Sunday at Brookings, Ore. St. Martin, 63, was flying a single-engine, four seat plane alone w...
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Man apparently jumps into Atchafalaya River after allegedly shooting another
SIMMESPORT – Officials think a Point Coupee man may have jumped from an Atchafalaya River bridge after allegedly shooting someone at a night club. The shooting occurred early Monday at a private pa...
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Woman stabs, kills intruder; his alleged accomplice held
AMITE – Tangipahoa Parish sheriff’s deputies say a man who allegedly broke into a home and assaulted the owner died after a woman in the home stabbed him several times with a kitchen knife. Deputie...
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Darryl Hebert, senior legal counsel for Hancock Bank, holds a recent newspaper article on an instance of elder financial abuse in Louisiana.
Bank legal counsel reports increase in elder financial abuse
Darryl Hebert, senior legal counsel for Hancock Bank, told Eunice Kiwanians that one of the least-talked about forms of elder abuse, financial abuse, is becoming increasingly more prevalent. Accor...
Aug 22, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 35 35 recommendations | email to a friend
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Stretch of I10 to be one lane only nightly for three weeks
Beginning Wednesday, August 24, 2011, I-10 in Lafayette and St. Martin Parish will be reduced to one lane nightly for a moving operation in the eastbound and westbound directions. The work will tak...
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Development message unchanged: City needs first to clean up
The message started with a visiting economic development consultant’s observation last summer, and it hasn’t changed. Eunice needs to clean up. That consultant, otherwise complimentary of the city,...
Aug 19, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 27 27 recommendations | email to a friend
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Alleged mule stopped carrying 14 pounds of coke near Welsh
WELSH – A driver allegedly following another too close on I-10 had more than 14 pounds of cocaine in his car, State Police said. Troopers stopped John Flores, 35, of San Antonio early Friday when t...
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Federal disaster $$$ available in flood-damaged areas
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced that federal disaster aid has been made available to Louisiana and ordered federal aid ...
Aug 18, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 57 57 recommendations | email to a friend
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Rumback
Four charged with sex crimes against 6-year-old; two charged earlier with crimes on 3-year-old
OPELOUSAS – A couple and two men are charged with sex offenses against a 6-year-old. Two of the suspects were previously charged with sex offenses involving a 3-year-old. Police said Sheila Rumbac...
Aug 17, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 34 34 recommendations | email to a friend
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Woman allegedly attacked, pelted with rocks by trio of men, including her brother
Several men were arrested and charged with fighting after a trio of young men allegedly attacked a young woman; one of them being the victim’s brother. Eunice Police received a call shortly after 7...
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Man pleads guilty in felony child support case
MONROE – The first felony non-support case prosecuted under a 2008 law resulted in a conviction in 4th District Court. Warren Green of Plano, Texas owed about $27,000 in child support payments, whi...
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State joins new national campaign against scoffers who drink and drive
Louisiana has joined the national "Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over" campaign designed by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to reduce the number of people killed in alcohol-related t...
Aug 11, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 27 27 recommendations | email to a friend
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