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**Update** Early this morning, about 2am, three year old Riley Gautreaux and the suspect were discovered in a residence in the Turkey Creek, LA area. Riley was safely returned home and the suspe...
JOINT HIGHWAY PRIORITY CONSTRUCTION COMMITTEE MEETING SCHEDULED FOR TUESDAY
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BATON ROUGE – The Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission (LWFC) adopted notices of intent for the 2013-14 hunting season and the 2012-13 Wildlife Management Areas (WMA) General Rules and Regul...
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ABBEVILLE – Applications will be accepted Feb. 12-March 5 for superintendent of the Vermilion Parish School Board. Supt. Randy Schexnayder has announced he will retired in August of next year. The...
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CROWLEY – A teenager accused of first-degree murder took the state’s offer of accessory after the fact, pleading no contest and getting 33 months at hard labor rather than risk life in prison. Ove...
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MONROE – A landmark Monroe restaurant - The Chateau - will close in March. The eatery has operated on Louisville Avenue for more than 45 years. Victor Cascio sold the restaurant to Monroe develo...
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As of this writing, no one within the judicial bureaucracy has responded to last week’s column noting that persons accused of sex crimes get special treatment in St. Landry Parish. Minutiae about ...
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Louisiana State Police Troop A and Our Lady of the Lake (OLOL) Regional Medical Center have partnered for the common cause of making our roadways safer. With particular attention directed to the y...
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LT. THOMAS V. FIELDING, U. S. COAST GUARD (RET.) Lt. Thomas V. Fielding, U. S. Coast Guard (Ret.), 78, of Baytown, TX, formerly Marksville, LA, was born February 20, 1933 in Columbus, OH and passe...
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A Memorial Service for Charlie Harrison age 63, of Marksville, LA. will be held on Saturday February 4, 2012 at 10:00 AM in the chapel of Kilpatrick’s Rose-Neath Funeral Home in Marksville. Mr. H...
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Funeral services for Betty Ann McGee will be held at Our Lady of Prompt Succor Catholic Church in Mansura on Saturday, February 4, 2012 at 10:30 AM. Visitation will be held prior to the funeral mas...
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Funeral services for Layton “Bud” Coco, Jr. of Moreauville will take place at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church of Moreauville on Saturday, February 4, 2012, beginning at 1:00pm with Father Marc Noe...
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Baptist camps manager RUSTON – Services will be Feb. 11 for retired Southern Baptist camp manager Joe Backus. He died Feb. 1 at age 82. He helped organize Acadian Baptist Center in Eunice and w...
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Naomi Smith Carmouche Funeral services for Naomi Smith Carmouche will be held at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, February 5, 2012 at Marksville Baptist Church in Marksville with Pastor Mark Crawford, officiatin...
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Dec. 13 Smith, Aquanetta Nicole of 201 North Ash St., Bunkie; theft. Dec. 15 Ford, Monteil Kemon of 429 Chester St., Marksville; open container, possession of marijuana, possession of drug par...
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The St. Landry Parish Sheriff's Office reported booking Cain Siverand, 30, 219 Cook St., Bunkie, for possession of cocaine and a bench warrant.
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The name of a Simmeport resident was included in the booking report of the Lafayette Parish Correction Center before 5:57 a.m. Sunday contain. Jessie Fisher, 45, of 200 block of Stemley Drive, Si...
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Nov. 21 Gagnard, Bridget Renee of 613 Spring Bayou Road, Marksville; theft of goods greater than $500, trespassing. Dec. 1 Johnson, Laterskia Rachelle of 506 Laurel St., Simmesport; seven counts...
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Nov. 16 Ferguson, Emily Theresa of 1237 La. Highway 1184, Cottonport; theft of goods.
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Booked into Rapides Parish Jail on Nov. 10: Frazier, Brian Lowell of 703 Patton St., Bunkie; improper headlight equipment, possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia.
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Louisiana French music began to get a wide national audience in the 1970s after masters of the craft like Bois Sec Ardoin and Canray Fontenot, the Balfa Brothers, Nathan Abshire, and others were in...
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Revisionist historians have been telling us since the Revolution that American history began in the 13 "original" Atlantic colonies and that hardy, English-speaking pioneers pushing across the moun...
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Jean Lafitte was probably the most famous French speaker at the Battle of New Orleans, fought 197 years ago today. But there were some others — mostly former Napoleonic soldiers — who fought well a...
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A boy would likely be laughed out of the first grade today -- or certainly need a nickname -- if he was named the same as his great-grandpa, but it was once the fashion for Acadian families to give...
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The "little red church," on Hwy. 182 between Opelousas and Sunset has no pastor and no Sunday services but still has a large congregation that meets once each year. It's history dates to the year...
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War leaves lasting legacies, sometimes in places and ways that we least expect. That was the story behind the headline in October 1951 about a wedding in Vermilion Parish involving a World War II v...
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This article is being written as a response to a recent letter received from a statewide elected individual. He encouraged all candidates who presented themselves for public service consideration ...
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The following Veteran's Day message was written by Alexandria Mayor Jacques M. Roy, whose father, Chris Roy, is a native of Marksville. by Jacques M. Roy Comment ca va, Avoyelles! I write to ...
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The Louisiana REALTORS® Association is supporting a constitutional amendment on the November 19th ballot to prohibit any new real estate transfer taxes in the state. A vote FOR Amendment #1 on N...
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You like going to the corner drugstore when you need to pick up a few things - aspirin, cough medicine for the kids, shampoo, household items and your prescriptions - all in one stop. You might e...
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By Paddy Eger, teacher As states continue to slash education budgets to accommodate declining tax revenues, schools respond by trying to squeeze even more out of their beleaguered teachers: clas...
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Vote for Constitutional Amendment #1. A vote for Constitutional Amendment #1 will protect TOPS funding by redirecting annual Tobacco Settlement proceeds from the Millennium Trust to its college sch...
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by: Kobe East Baton Rouge La. (Formely of Bunkie) Everyone across America knows that the ‘Cell Phone’ may have been one of the best inventions since the introduction of sliced bread, to the fam...
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Just the FAX is a newsletter sent to state legislators each Friday from the Louisiana Federation of Teachers. Issues are available online at http://la.aft.org. Louisiana Federation of Teachers ...
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Edwin Edwards broke 32 year jinx on South Louisiana candidate winning for governor
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By Mike Reitz President and CEO, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana This year’s mid-term elections produced a new set of winners and losers, and with the dramatic shift in power that occurr...
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The Louisiana Oil & Gas Association will hold a "State of the Industry" meeting in Alexandria Thursday, February 2. Topics include the Tuscaloosa Marine Shale and Austin Chalk which are stirring ...
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Turner Bayou Chalk Project Well Updates Rabalais 35 No.1 (8.8% Working Interest / 6.6% NRI) The Rabalais 35 No.1 well Odenburg (south of Simmesport), in the Turner Bayou Chalk project, is cu...
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The Louisiana Oil & Gas Association has scheduled its State of the Industry meeting at 11 a.m. Thursday January 19, at Bayou DeSiard Country Club in Monroe. Don Briggs, president, will provide a l...
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The Rabalais 35 No.1 well of Odenburg in the Turner Bayou Chalk project is nearing final completion and being prepared for production. Tubing has been run in the vertical section of the well an...
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Goodrich Petroleum (NYSE:GDP) plans to drill between two and four Tuscaloosa oil wells in the Louisiana area this year, according to its 2012 budget. Goodrich, which has been transitioning away fr...
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The drilling of the deep horizontal Rabalais oil and gas well in Odenburg south of Simmesport is basically complete. The Rabalais 35 No.1 well in the Turner Bayou Chalk project has been drilled to...
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