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Deputy Scott Jarreau honored
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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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PINEVILLE - Department of Health and Hospitals Secretary Bruce D. Greenstein and Pineville Mayor Clarence Fields announced Wednesday a two-phased plan to vacate the current Central State Hospital ...
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We all make our Christmas plans usually way in advance of the holiday season. We eagerly count down the days until we host the festive holiday party, the family get together, or travel out of town....
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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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I have seen this movie before, several times. Oil and gas prices spike, pouring revenues into the state’s coffers. The money hardly makes it there before it is spent. If there isn’t time to spend i...
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Few things have captured in microcosm what has gone so painfully wrong, where racial issues are concerned, like the recent election for mayor of Washington, D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty, under whom the...
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As it must every year, the Revenue Estimating Conference (REC) met last week to estimate what Louisiana’s unemployment compensation (UC) trust fund balance will be next year. Whenever the REC proj...
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September 10, 2010…This week, Governor Bobby Jindal was given multiple opportunities to make an endorsement in the race for U.S. Senate. In each instance, he refused to support fellow Republican U....
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William Edward “Bud” Hatcher was born on September 14, 1938 and passed away on Thursday, February 2, 2012 at his residence. He was 73, a native and resident of Kentwood. He was a retired Dairyman,...
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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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Former prosecutor RUSTON – Services for former prosecutor as well as defense lawyer James Lewis will be Saturday. He died Jan. 29. He was a former Marine Corps captain, taught business law at U...
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Holly Wideman LeJeune was born September 20, 1978 and passed away on January 31, 2012 at her residence. She was 33, a native of Grundy County, TN and a resident of Roseland. Holly is survived by h...
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Hospital exec CUMMINGS, Ga. – Services for Warren Simonds, former president of the La. Hospital Association, will be Feb. 11. He died Jan. 25 at age 84. He was administrator of Baton Rouge (La....
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Long-time attorney LAFAYETTE – Services for attorney Keith Borne will be Wednesday. He died Jan. 29 at age 57. He practiced with several firms before founding Borne & Wilkes in 1994. He also ow...
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The following individuals were arrested and booked and/or incarcerated in and/or scheduled for release from the Tangipahoa Parish Jail between January 19 and January 23: Davonta Abron, bm, 10/28/1...
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Tangipahoa Parish Fire District #1 responded to the following calls from Sunday, January 1 through Thursday, January 19: Sunday, January 1 104 Northeast Central Avenue, EMS East Bell Road, autom...
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The following individuals were arrested and booked and/or incarcerated and/or scheduled for release from the Tangipahoa Parish between January 14 and January 18: Lawrence Abron, bm, 01/13/1984 fe...
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The following individuals were arrested and booked and/or incarcerated and/or scheduled for release from the Tangipahoa Parish Jail between January 6 and January 13: Shawnee Wayne Addison, wm, 10/...
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The following individuals were arrested and booked and/or incarcerated in and/or scheduled for release from the Tangipahoa Parish Jail between December 29 and January 5: Alton O'Neal Adams, wm, 08...
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The following individuals were arrested and booked and/or incarcerated in and/or schedule for release from the Tangipahoa Parish Jail between December 13 and December 28: Davonta Abron, bm, 10/28/...
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Numbers are daunting for many of us. For instance, what does 1.5 million cubic feet of water per second really mean? Or 114,000 cfs, for that matter? The former is what the Corps of Engineers sa...
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Why are so many people who are opposed to development nevertheless in favor of "redevelopment"? The short answer is that development involves decisions made in the market by large numbers of peopl...
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The voices of doom are already predicting the end for energy derived from nuclear reactors in the aftermath of the Japanese reactor failures. Germany is already signaling a retrenchment from its nu...
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The Republican candidates' circular firing squad now seems to be using machine guns. Whoever the eventual "last man standing" turns out to be, he may not be standing very tall or very steadily on h...
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The annual State of the Union (SOTU) address by any president has become something to be endured rather than cherished. No president ever says the state of the union is dire. The problems that must...
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With all the talk about "disparities" in innumerable contexts, there is one very important disparity that gets remarkably little attention -- disparities in the ability to create wealth. People who...
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