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Turner Bayou Operational Update: focus now on second well
Efforts to enhance the Deshotels Oil and Gas well between Dupont and Odenburg have hit another snag, so, at least for the meantime, the well is not producing as much as oil execs believe it will at...
Feb 28, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
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Grant Parish Deputy Shot
Earlier this afternoon, Grant Parish Sheriff’s Deputies were involved in a shooting. The shooting occurred around 2:50 pm at the Grant Parish Sheriff’s Department Criminal Investigative Divisio...
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Hearing for ousted school board member Lizzie Ned rescheduled
A court hearing involving ousted Avoyelles Parish School Board member Lizzie Ned has been delayed until March 10 in the federal courthouse in downtown Alexandria. Judge Dee Drell reset the hearin...
Feb 26, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
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The Morasse sisters of Mansura
Old photos sought for Mansura book
Old photos of Mansura area families are being sought for an upcoming book. Volume two of the Mansura Sesquicentennial series features French, Creole, and other family histories and photos. In par...
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Aundra Bennette
Simmesport pair charged with 32 rocks of crack cocaine
According to Avoyelles Parsih Sheriff Doug Anderson two (2) Simmesport residents were arrested after deputies searched the home of Eden Rabalais located at 6648 Hwy 1, Simmesport, La. late tuesday ...
Feb 24, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 17 17 recommendations | email to a friend
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Log shows no unanswered calls from murder victim
Avoyelles Publishing Company was allowed to view previously denied phone logs at the 911 Center looking for three, alleged, “hang-up” phone calls concerning the murder of Gail Borrell. Today, Avo...
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911 call log to be inspected
The Avoyelles Parish Sheriff will now allow access to the call log of the disputed 911 calls in the Borrell murder case. Earlier, the APSO denied the request of the newspaper to see the daily log ...
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Moncla man compares nation's debt to Senator as "paying off your Mastercard with your Visa"
A Moncla man summed up the rising debt to a visiting United States Senator Wednesday afternoon in Marksville. “We’re borrowing nationally 41 cents on the dollar,” said Willie Elmer, Phd, of Moncla...
Feb 23, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Murder victim Gail Borrell: informant claims calls to 911 went unanswered
Sheriff denies newspaper request to check log for three alleged "hang up" calls from murder vicitm; investigation ongoing
The domestic abuse turned second degree murder case has now added the investigation of three alleged unanswered phone calls to 911 from the murder victim's home. A commenter on the story which app...
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State prison in Avoyelles to be transfered to Sheriff's Office
Today, Department of Public Safety and Corrections Secretary James Le Blanc announced that the state is transferring two state prison operations to the Rapides Parish Sheriff and the Avoyelles Pari...
Feb 23, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
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Suicide confirmed near Hessmer
An uncomfirmed but official report has said the body found off Hwy. 115 in between Hessmer and the Bayhills area on Wednesday, February 23 was a suicide. The body, and apparently the act itself, ...
Feb 23, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
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Police officers block off a section of road while they investigate the possible suicide in Hessmer.
Body on driveway off of Hwy. 115 between Hessmer and The Bayhills reported
A commotion on Hwy. 115 between Hessmer and The Bayhills has been reported. Initially the newspaper received a phone call that someone had been hit by a car, however other sources indicate that a...
Feb 23, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
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