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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 | 25 25 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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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...
Aug 22, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 36 36 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...
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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 | 39 39 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 | 27 27 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 | 38 38 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 | 41 41 recommendations | email to a friend
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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 | 29 29 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...
Aug 19, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 40 40 recommendations | email to a friend
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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 | 61 61 recommendations | email to a friend
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Kenner woman 'shocked' by Crowley animal shelter as she retrieves her pets
CROWLEY - Rosemarie Harmon, 61 of Kenner, was traveling with her three aging pets - two dogs and one cat -when she was involved in a car wreck which resulted in her vehicle being impounded, her bei...
Aug 17, 2011 | 7 7 comments | 35 35 recommendations | email to a friend
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