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Cameron Industries worker dies in accident
VILLE PLATTE – Details remain sketchy regarding an accident that killed a worker here Wednesday. The accident happened about 11 a.m. at Cameron Industries. Killed was a 60-year-old employee whose i...
Aug 25, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 35 35 recommendations | email to a friend
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State prohibits private burning as drought, heat continue
Officials have issued a ban on all private burning without permission in several parishes. Extraordinary dry and hot weather has turned most of Louisiana into a tinderbox, with just a stray spark n...
Aug 24, 2011 | 1 1 comments | 41 41 recommendations | email to a friend
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Man held on two counts of alleged child rape
COTTONPORT – City Police on Tuesday announced the arrest of a 42-year-old male for the alleged rape of a minor child. The investigation began on August 9 when family members contacted the police d...
Aug 23, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 45 45 recommendations | email to a friend
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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...
Aug 23, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 24 24 recommendations | email to a friend
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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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Luke Huval, Cameron Dupuy and Zachary Fuselier
Teen musicians highlight Liberty show Aug. 27
Saturday, August 27, 2011, the weekly "Rendez-vous des Cajuns" Music Show presents a "14 and Under" Family Edition show with the JAMBALAYA CAJUN BAND and special guests CAMERON DUPUY (age 13), ZACH...
Aug 22, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 42 42 recommendations | email to a friend
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Rayne teen killed when off road bike goes airborne, crashes in bean field
RAYNE -- A teenager reported missing after leaving home Saturday night was found dead Sunday after an apparent accident. Acadia Parish authorities said Jason Blake Petitjean, 16, was found in a soy...
Aug 21, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 37 37 recommendations | email to a friend
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Gerald Cox checks the master control of the 600-ton air conditioning system at LSUE. Cox has 16 years’ experience with the school’s cooling and heating program.
Punch list shrinking as LSUE prepares for Fall opening
Finishing touches are being done as Louisiana State University Eunice faculty and staff prepare for the 2011-12 academic year which begins Monday. Perhaps as many as 3,200 students will enroll, acc...
Aug 21, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 26 26 recommendations | email to a friend
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Elliot Venable receives frog souvenirs to distribute at the Little League World Series in Williamsport, Penn. later this week following his visit with Mayor Jim Petitjean.
Rayne teen living Little League World Series dream
RAYNE – Elliott Venable be on the mound or at shortstop when Louisiana’s Little League Challenger team takes Indiana in an exhibition game at the Little League World Series. He and 17 teammates are...
Aug 19, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 37 37 recommendations | email to a friend
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Crowley man shot to death
CROWLEY – A man was shot to death during an incident here shortly after 1 a.m. Friday. Brian Keith LaFleur, 30, of Crowley died as a result of bullet wounds, according to Acadia Sheriff Wayne Melan...
Aug 19, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 39 39 recommendations | email to a friend
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