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LAKE CHARLES – Services were Saturday for hospital executive Dave Usher. He died May 15 at age 62.
He was senior vice president of business development at Lake Charles Memorial ...
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BATON ROUGE – Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Enforcement Division agents and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials are looking for leads regarding a whooping crane that was found...
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The CCA Louisiana Statewide Tournament and Angler’s Rodeo (STAR) begins its 19th year of competition on Saturday, May 25. One of the largest, and richest saltwater fishing tournaments in the countr...
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LAKE CHARLES - A car driven by an Elton teenager suspected of being impaired allegedly ran a stop sign causing a Thursday collision that killed one of her passengers and critically injured the driv...
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MORGAN CITY – Hydrologists at the Lower Mississippi River Forecast Center in Slidell say the Atchafalaya River is expected to crest at 6 feet here early next week.
That forecast could increase by a...
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SHREVEPORT — Former Monroe City Councilman Arthur Gilmore will be sentenced Sept. 26 after being convicted in federal court Thursday of racketeering. He was acquitted of extortion.
The maximum sent...
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LAKE CHARLES – Services were Saturday for hospital executive Dave Usher. He died May 15 at age 62.
He was senior vice president of business development at Lake Charles Memorial ...
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Victor H.
“The Godfather”
Raphael
JENNINGS — A Mass of Christian Burial will be held Tuesday, May 21, 2013, at 11 a.m. at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church for Victor H. “The Godfather”...
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Farrell James
Fontenot
April 12, 1942
~ May 13, 2013
Lafayette—A memorial service honoring the life of Farrell James Fontenot, 71, will be held at 2:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 23, 2013 at Family ...
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Leola Terrebonne
Trahan
DELCAMBRE – A Mass of Christian Burial will be conducted for Leola Terrebonne Trahan, age 68, at 11:00 am Monday, May 20, 2013 at Our Lady of the Lake Catholic Church wit...
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December 1, 1980 ~ May 12, 2013
Jeb Daniel Bouillion, a man who inspired immense and abundant love in the world around him, passed away on May 12, 2013. He was 32 years old, and will live on forev...
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April 3, 1937 ~ May 14, 2013
KAPLAN — Ed passed away May 14, 2013 after a long and courageous battle with lung cancer. He was 76 years old. The family will receive friends on Saturday, May 18, 2...
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Stephain Brailey
(Male)
DOB: 3/19/1994
Charge: Felon Possession of Firearm (3 counts)
Charge: Possession of Firearm with Obliterated Number
Charge: Resisting an Officer
Charge: Illegal Possession ...
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Chief Boyd Adams advises officers investigated the following:
April 18
Alarm on the 100 block of S. Cushing.
Loose dog on the 1200 block of W. Seventh.
Disturbance on the 400 block of W. Veterans ...
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Tamiya R.
Allen
(Female)
DOB: 12/18/1989
Charge: Possession of Marijuana
Walter Jabrice
August
(Male)
DOB: 12/16/1994
Charge: Warrant Arrest
Jonathan C.
Baudoin
(Male)
DOB: 8/25/1966
Charge: Th...
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Chief Boyd Adams advises officers investigated the following:
April 4
Alarm on the 100 block of S. Cushing.
Loose dog on the 100 block of N. LeMaire.
Disturbance on the 200 block of N. Frederick.
S...
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Roland Bernard III
(Male)
DOB: 8/4/1992
Charge: Simple Battery
Aubrey Alan
Berryhill
(Male)
DOB: 1/13/1996
Charge: Aggravated Second Degree Battery
Elias J.
Bilski Jr.
(Male)
DOB: 1/9/1954
Charg...
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Clay Bodin
(Male)
DOB: 9/10/1976
Charge: (Felony) Theft of Goods
Brandon Bourgeois
(Male)
DOB: 7/13/1993
Charge: (Felony) Theft of Goods
Nathisha Nicho
Delcambre
(Female)
DOB: 9/18/1979
Charge: ...
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It's hard to believe that today marks the tenth anniversary of the death of Mary Alice Fontenot, the newspaperwoman, teacher, and storyteller who knew and was known by practically everyone in Acad...
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Cinqo de Mayo, the fifth of May, commemorates the Mexican army's defeat of French forces at the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862, It was a huge victory for the Mexicans who were outnumbered two to ...
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"Pacques Pacques" means "Easter Easter" in French, but it is also the name in Louisiana of a contest that began innocently enough but that has become a major tradition in some Louisiana communities...
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"Opera Houses" were scattered across south Louisiana in the late 1800s and early 1900s, a good number of them, like the Grand Opera House of the South in Crowley, on the upper floor of a mercantile...
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Jean Lafitte was the most notorious — and successful — of the pirates operating from Louisiana in the early 1800s, but he wasn't the only one.
A federal grand jury in New Orleans reported in July 1...
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The news that an attempt is being made to restore the old Southern Club will bring a lot of memories to folks who remember what some consider the heyday of Louisiana's distinctive swamp pop music.
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Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 6 and a very busy ballot awaits taxpayers. With early voting underway, we remind everyone that there are nine state constitutional amendments on the ballot and one loc...
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You have seen and heard the candidates running for president. After a year or more of listening to all the rhetoric it is time to make a decision. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican, you shou...
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Each day, in countless methods and manner, We have the opportunities, ( hundreds of them it seems ), to witness the unabashed dissection of each of the individual candidates, attempting to be the G...
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A woman I don’t know wrote the letter below to the protesters camping out in major cities. It says it all.
You won’t see it in the liberal news media that delights in giving these protesters wide...
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One of the things that has struck me, when I have gone on luxury cruise ships, is that most of the passengers look like they are older than the captain -- and luxury cruise ships don't have juvenil...
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Back in the 1920s, the intelligentsia on both sides of the Atlantic were loudly protesting the execution of political radicals Sacco and Vanzetti, after what they claimed was an unfair trial. Supre...
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Country living and city living, both have the same problem, but with different solutions: wildlife management. Last week I rediscovered this old problem. I’m getting close to finding a solution.
Wh...
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Alcohol, the drinking kind, has only played a small role in my life. There was none in the house as I was growing up.
But alcohol has long tentacles, and while high school was mostly a sort of inno...
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I don’t choose books to write about. They choose me. I choose when I do the writing, even if it’s in the middle of the night.
A colleague lent me this one: Dr. Kevin Leman’s 2009 (rev.) “The ...
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Beside me as I write this is a small monthly publication from Hillsdale College, called Imprimis, published in Hillsdale, Michigan, a small city in the southern part of the state. This is the March...
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Coincidences - two or more events happening around the same time - seem to bring with them a sense of purpose, that they are happening at the same time for some reason.
We wonder if there is a l...
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Life here in Abbeville seems tranquil. At night, the streets and sidewalks are quiet and empty. Security lights across the street are bright enough to read by. Inside a passing car, we can see the ...
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