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Nearly 900,000 - one in five - Louisianians have no health insurance
About one in five Louisiana residents has no health insurance, Census Bureau data releasted Tuesday shows, and that percentage in higher in the state’s poorest parishes. Roughly 886,000 in Louisia...
Sep 14, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 27 27 recommendations | email to a friend
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Rayne man gets 40 years in woman's stabbing death
CROWLEY – A Rayne man has gotten a 40-year sentenced in the stabbing death of a woman. Quinton Mouton, 38 at the time of his arrest, pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the multiple stabbing in Augus...
Sep 13, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 34 34 recommendations | email to a friend
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Jindal says Perry's the best choice
BATON ROUGE – Gov. Bobby Jindal on Monday night endorsed Rick Perry for president. Jindal announced his support for the Texas governor ahead of Monday night’s GOP presidential debate in Tampa, Fla...
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School Board association fires exec director over alleged theft coverup
BATON ROUGE – The Louisiana School Board Association has fired its executive director as a probe of the alleged cover up of theft by another employee continues. Nolton Senegal, Sr., executive direc...
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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...
Sep 12, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 35 35 recommendations | email to a friend
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Blood
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...
Sep 12, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 48 48 recommendations | email to a friend
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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...
Sep 12, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 44 44 recommendations | email to a friend
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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...
Sep 12, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 18 18 recommendations | email to a friend
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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...
Sep 12, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 28 28 recommendations | email to a friend
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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...
Sep 11, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 30 30 recommendations | email to a friend
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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...
Sep 11, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 41 41 recommendations | email to a friend
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