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Former Vermilion Parish Superintendent Randy Schexnayder’s retirement will be official in August.
It is not a move that will catch anyone off guard.
“I announced it to the school board two years ag...
Dates announced when Palmetto Island State Park roads will be overlaid
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LAFAYETTE – A New Iberia woman was sentenced Monday to 26 months in federal prison and for filing false claims of more than $12 million with the IRS and receiving tax refunds she was not owed. She...
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CHOPIN – Gov. Bobby Jindal and President and Chief Financial Officer Roy O. Martin, III of RoyOMartin-Martco Ltd. Partnership announced Monday that the company will invest $20 million to modernize...
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ZACHARY – Three Zachary women are charged with Medicaid fraud, each accused of filing false claims.
All three were arrested May 15 by the State Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit with a...
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BRANCH – A Eunice teenager died from wounds received in a shooting Sunday evening at the Branch/Church Point highway crossroad.
According to Acadia Parish Sheriff Wayne Melancon deputies responded ...
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RED OAK, Iowa --Four Louisiana men from Kentwood, Roseland and Ponchatoula were found guilty of poaching Iowa deer from a case that started when someone made a call to the Turn in Poachers hotline....
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MORGAN CITY — Alligators continue to be spotted in people’s yards and neighborhoods in Morgan City, a problem police have been dealing with for about a month, which could be due to several differen...
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Long-time vet
METAIRIE – Services for long-time vet Dr. Thomas Melius, Jr. will be Thursday. He died May 19 at age 90.
He was a U.S. Army veteran of World War II. He was former veterinarian for Aud...
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July 21, 1980 ~ May 18, 2013
ABBEVILLE—Funeral services will be held Tuesday, May 21, 2013 at 10:00 a.m. at Vincent Funeral Home - Abbeville honoring the life of George Ernest LeBlanc, 32, who di...
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January 24, 1940 ~ May 18, 2013
ABBEVILLE—Funeral services will be held Tuesday, May 21, 2013 at a 10:00 a.m. Mass of Christian Burial at St. Alphonsus Roman Catholic Church honoring the life of A...
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March 15, 1943 - May 18, 2013
ABBEVILLE — A funeral service will be held for Mrs. Mary Gage Maze 70 at 1:00pm Wednesday, May 22, 2013 at Mt. Triumph Baptist Church-310 S. Lamar Street in Abbevil...
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Nursing homes owner
ALEXANDRIA – Services for former Louisiana Nursing Home Association president Finley C. Matthews, Jr. are Monday. He died May 15 at age 78.
He was owner/operator of Naomi Height...
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Hospital executive
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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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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Fire was a huge hazard to south Louisiana communities in the days before modern firefighting equipment and good water supplies, when wooden homes and buildings were illuminated by oil lamps and can...
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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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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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My wife and I moved to Abbeville in June of 2004, “in the course of human events.” Anyone who has lived here for the last nine years knows it has been a mixed bag, and in the hazy shape of the next...
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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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