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Alligators sun Thursday afternoon alongside the canal of Lake End Park in Morgan City. May is the peak of alligator mating season, resulting in alligators moving in search of mates.
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MORGAN CITY, La. — 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 dif...
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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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LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) — A man arrested in a 51-year-old killing is being held in the Calcasieu Parish jail without bond.
Authorities arrested 73-year-old William Felix Vail Friday for the October ...
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METAIRIE, La. (AP) — A man told Jefferson Parish sheriff's deputies he rendezvoused with a stripper at a Metairie apartment complex, looking for a "good time." Instead he was robbed following a bla...
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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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BATON ROUGE – Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Enforcement Division agents and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials are looking for leads regarding a whooping crane that was found...
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The CCA Louisiana Statewide Tournament and Angler’s Rodeo (STAR) begins its 19th year of competition on Saturday, May 25. One of the largest, and richest saltwater fishing tournaments in the countr...
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Aug. 9, 1921 ~ May 16, 2013
Funeral services will be held Tuesday, May 21, 2013, at 11 a.m., at Beau Pre Cemetery in Jeanerette for Mr. Emile Joseph “E. J,” Doucet, 91, a St. Mary Parish native and...
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Mr. Harry James Roberts, 57, a resident of Jeanerette and native of Opelousas, died Wednesday, May 8, 2013, at New Iberia Manor North.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Leola Prejean Roberts of Jean...
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March 5, 1919 ~ May 18, 2013
Funeral services will be held Wednesday, May 22, 2013, at 2 p.m., at Ibert’s Mortuary for Elizabeth “Liz” Bigler Carr, 94, a native and lifelong resident of Franklin, w...
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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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Jan. 20, 1961 — May 16, 2013
Glenn Arthur Boyd, 52, a resident of Stephensville, passed away Thursday, May 16, 2013, at his home surrounded by his loving family.
Glenn was born on Jan. 20, 1961, in...
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Franklin Police Chief Sabria McGuire reported the following arrests from the past weekend:
Bailey Robertson Peters, 31, of St. John Street, Franklin, was arrested Friday at 11:41 a.m., and charged ...
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CARENCRO, La. (AP) — A police chief disputes claims that his officers were paid to look away during illegal drug sales and prostitution at a strip club.
Carencro Police Chief Carlos Stout told The ...
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St. Mary Parish Sheriff Mark Hebert reported the following arrest this morning:
Jerrell A. Jones, 21, of 628 Red Cypress Road, Patterson, was arrested Thursday at 5:49 p.m. on charges of simple bat...
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A 42-year-old Ricohoc man was arrested Wednesday on a warrant for domestic abuse battery, according to Sheriff Mark Hebert.
Mikel J. Ashley, of Calumet Cut Lane in Ricohoc, was arrested at 8:47 a.m...
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A 27-year-old Bayou Vista woman was arrested Tuesday by a St. Mary Parish Sheriff’s deputy for obstruction of justice after she claimed she struck a man with her fist at a park, but video surveilla...
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St. Mary Parish Sheriff Mark Hebert reported the following arrests this morning:
Timothy Theriot, 36, of 260 Cane Road, Franklin, was arrested Tuesday at 10:40 a.m. on a warrant charging him with c...
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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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By MELINDA DESLATTE
Associated Press
BATON ROUGE — Tax discussions may be largely dead for the legislative session, but lawmakers have found a list of other issues over which to bicker for the next...
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In October 1788, César Archinard, Edward Murphy, and François Brunet were sent to the Bayou Chicot community by Nicolas Forstall, commandant of the Poste des Opelousas, to investigate the sudden de...
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By JOHN MAGINNIS and JEREMY ALFORD
Gov. Bobby Jindal’s announcement Monday that he is shelving his tax swap plan came as a surprise to the sponsor of the legislation, Rep. Joel Robideaux, R-Lafayet...
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May 13
The Advertiser, Lafayette, La., on online sales tax would level playing field:
It is time for states to begin collecting sales tax on Internet purchases. This is a po-tential source of reven...
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May 11
Times-Picayune, New Orleans, on Congress should make sure flood insurance is affordable:
Hurricane Isaac spared 86-year-old Addie Riley’s home in Bohemia last fall. But new federal flood ins...
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May 12
The Advocate, Baton Rouge, La., on state’s children facing crunch:
Continuing challenges with the state budget mean that funding for basic social services is deeply strained, and that realit...
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May 5
The Advocate, Baton Rouge, La., on an end run on textbooks:
Without knowing the background, there is no apparent reason to object to a bill in the Legislature that would give local school dis...
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May 6
The Courier, Houma, La., on voters making a sound decision on taxes:
It was a day for deciding the fates of taxes.
In Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes alone, there were five separate tax iss...
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May 3
The News-Star, Monroe, La. on school systems deserving a vote:
Rural school systems in northeastern Louisiana are suffering financially.
In some communities, the dollars assigned to public sc...
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By JOHN MAGINNIS
and JEREMY ALFORD
LaPOLITICS.com
Proposed salary bumps for assessors, clerks and judges are all positioned to move forward in the remaining three weeks of the regular session. Toge...
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By JOHN MAGINNIS
and JEREMY ALFORD
LaPolitics.com
With the U.S. Senate approving legislation earlier this week to allow states to collect sales taxes on Internet purchases, attention turns to the ...
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By JOHN MAGINNIS and JEREMY ALFORD
LaPolitics.com
BATON ROUGE — Considering all the lawsuits that have been filed and those that are anticipated, the court system is putting Gov. Bobby Jindal and h...
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By JOHN MAGINNIS
and JEREMY ALFORD
LaPolitics.com
A committee hearing that was scheduled Monday for a bill to place the Artificial Reef Development Fund in the state constitution was temporarily de...
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An AP News Analysis
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Gov. Bobby Jindal has punted the tax debate to lawmakers with no guiding principles for the multibillion-dollar budget implications involved in his bid t...
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By JOHN MAGINNIS and JEREMY ALFORD
LaPolitics.com
BATON ROUGE — With Gov. Bobby Jindal’s tax repeal package and those like it apparently immobile and parked for the session, lawmakers are slowly tu...
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LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) — It never gets old when companies announce they'll locate or expand in or around Lafayette.
But Gregg Gothreaux, Lafayette Economic Development Authority president and chief ex...
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Louisiana's unemployment rate rose in April for the fourth straight month, as fewer people reported having work.
While the labor force was basically flat, according to the federal Bureau of Labor S...
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A domestic natural gas boom already has lowered U.S. energy prices while stoking fears of environmental disaster. Now U.S. producers are poised to ship vast quantities of gas over...
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OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — In a move that would capitalize on provisions under President Barack Obama’s health care law but could cost the federal government millions of dollars, Washington state lawmak...
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Coastal governors call for more offshore drilling
HOUSTON — Six coastal governors have called on Washington to open up more waters to offshore drilling and to make permitting a quicker, more effic...
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By TODD MASSON
The Times-Picayune
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — This has been the second-coldest spring in the last century, and as a result, brown shrimp have grown more slowly than the U.S. economy. That pu...
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