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What's that white cloud in your house? Vangy deputies bust two allegedly cooking meth at home
VILLE PLATTE – A new investigative program helped Evangeline Sheriff's deputies shut down an alleged meth lab. Investigators followed up on leads developed from a new investigative program utilize...
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Vangy deputies seize 'legal weed' in house search
VILLE PLATTE – Investigators with the Evangeline Parish Sheriff’s Department conducted an investigation Sept. 8 and seized approximately 500 grams of “legal weed” after receiving information from C...
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From left, Public Defender Ed Lopez, Marla Giglio, Barry Giglio and attorney Donald Foret at Pig Stand news conference.
Pig Stand owners ready to rebuild reputation after grand jury rejects child-sex charges
VILLE PLATTE – A couple that owns a popular eatery here wants to rebuild their reputation and their business after being cleared by a grand jury of heinous charges. Barry and Marla Giglio, owners o...
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Fugitive Poets, Joe Simon on Liberty playbill
Saturday, September 17, 2011, the weekly "Rendez-vous des Cajuns" Music Show presents performances by THE FUGITIVE POETS, a group of singer/songwriters with the look of a classic Bluegrass band but...
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Guard unit deploys to Afghanistan
PINEVILLE -- Marking the tenth anniversary of 9/11, the Louisiana National Guard, family and friends bid farewell to approximately 170 soldiers of the 1086th Transportation Company during a deploym...
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Ceiling fan, discarded cigarette eyed in fire that killed two young Crowley children
CROWLEY – Investigation continues into an early Sunday house fire that killed two youngsters and into another that destroyed two homes and damaged others. Fire Marshal investigators say a fire tha...
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Two young children die in Crowley house fire
CROWLEY – Two young children died in a house fire early Sunday. Responding firefighters said several others in the house on West 8th Street were taken to a Crowley hospital. The names of the dead c...
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Phyllis Gail Rozas Talbot, in a photo taken at her son's wedding, spring 2001.
Remembering Chataignier native killed in terrorist attacks 10 years ago
When the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks tragically cut short the lives of 2,977 people, Chataignier native Phyllis Rozas Talbot was among their number. She was born Phyllis Gail Rozas, the only d...
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Gerald "Papoose" Matt is arrested outside an Aymond Street trailer house Friday.
Home invasion suspect who vowed not to be taken is after hideout standoff
Eunice police and St. Landry Parish deputies late Friday morning apprehended a fugitive who had vowed to do whatever was necessary to avoid returning to prison. He changed his mind after being subj...
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Two Iota men charged with illegal squirrel hunting
Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Enforcement Division agents cited two men for allegedly hunting squirrels during a closed season on Sept. 1 northwest of Iota. Agents heard shots and ...
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'Liz' Fontenot
Two indicted in crash that killed two women, three children
BATON ROUGE – The man and woman involved in an I-10 crash that killed five people, including a former Eunice woman and her three children, were indicted Wednesday. David Leger, 29, was indicted on ...
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Cody Marshall
Teen driver, his sister killed in Vernon accident
LEESVILLE – Services are pending for a teenager and his sister killed when he turned in front on an 18-wheeler on La. 28 at La. 121 east of here. Cody J. Marshal, 17, and Jaden Marshall, 9, were ki...
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