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ABBEVILLE – A man fleeing police crashed a pickup truck, injuring the three children who were in it when he grabbed it off a gas station lot. Police said Terrance Mouton was fleeing them on foot a...
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CALHOUN – A woman was jailed after allegedly kicking her husband in the groin during a dispute over a computer. Police said Kisa Baum, 38, is charged with battery. According to deputies, she and ...
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OPELOUSAS – Investigation continues into a single-vehicle accident that killed an unrestrained elderly man Saturday afternoon. State Police said Paul Johnson, 74, of Opelousas was driving a pickup...
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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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Realty owner LAFAYETTE – Services for real estate company owner Julius Stagg, III will be Tuesday. He died Feb. 4 at age 69. He was owner of Stagg Real Estate and past president of the Southwes...
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December 6, 1945 - February 3, 2012 Funeral services will be held for Yvonne Brunet, 66, of Ville Platte, at the Ardoin’s Funeral Home Chapel in Ville Platte at 2 p.m., Sunday, February 5. Burial ...
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August 29, 1940 - February 3, 2012 Funeral services will be held for John Willard “Weelo” Fontenot, 71, of Ville Platte, at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Ville Platte at 10 a.m., Saturday, Febru...
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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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November 29, 1932 - January 31, 2012 Funeral services will be held for Mose L. Wallace Jr., 79, of Ville Platte, at St. John Baptist Church in Ville Platte at 11 a.m., Saturday, February 4. Burial...
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April 4, 1962 - January 30, 2012 PINE PRAIRIE - Funeral services were held for Rebecca Lynn Manuel, 49, of Pine Prairie, at Our Lady Queen of All Saints Catholic Church in Ville Platte at 2 p.m., ...
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The Evangeline Parish Sheriff’s Office arrested a Ville Platte man January 31, in connection with six burglaries throughout the parish. Detectives with the Evangeline Parish Criminal Investigation...
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•Willie John David of Eunice was charged December 17, with failure to comply with PFD requirements and failure to have a PFD on a person under 17 while underway. •Kelly John David of Eunice was ch...
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•Ella Perkins, 45, 228 Demourelle St., Ville Platte, was charged January 23, with theft of utilities. Perkins was released on a $500 bond. •Frankie Lambert, 54, 1620 E. Main St., Ville Platte, was...
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•Gregory Morris Coutee, 31, 6418 Pine Point Road, Ville Platte, was charged January 25, with possession of P.C.P “wet” and simple criminal damage to property. Coutee was released on a $15,000 bond....
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The Ville Platte Police Department arrested two in separate narcotic-related cases this week. On January 25, officers with the department attempted to conduct a field interview with a suspect for...
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•Joseph Kyle, 24, 201 Fourth St., Mamou, was charged January 17, with criminal mischief. Kyle remained incarcerated at press time. •Francheska Thomas, 27, 1003 Hickory Ave., Apt. 104, Mamou, was c...
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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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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 and b...
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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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We’ve had a little nip in the air for a week or so, parts of the South got an usual November snowfall, and this has been a crazy year for weather events. But the odds are still against a White Chri...
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When push comes to shove, most politicians can’t help themselves – they value their positions more than the citizenry’s general well being. Such is the unfolding story of congressional reapportion...
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When push comes to shove, most politicians can’t help themselves -- they value their positions more than the citizenry’s general well being. Such is the unfolding story of congressional reapportio...
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Gov. Bobby Jindal has invited the state’s seven congressman to devise a plan eliminating one of their seats. That’s like putting the fox in charge of the henhouse. Census figures released before C...
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In the race for U.S. Senate, the choice could not be clearer: The incumbent, David Vitter, has disgraced himself, his family, his party and his state. After campaigning as the embodiment of family ...
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The election for Lt. Governor did not create much excitement when announced, and was not expected to generate very much interest to the electorate. This was before voters realized the next Lt. Go...
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HOUMA — Many of the obvious signs of the BP oil spill are gone, but some locals remain worried about what they can’t see. Millions of gallons of chemicals were sprayed onto the spill to disperse t...
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Valentine’s Day is quickly approaching. The quest for expressing how one feels about another is the significance of this age-old tradition, which leads me to ask, “Where are all the Romeos and Juli...
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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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Many of man’s greatest achievements have been completed in less than 1,000 days. Columbus sailed for only 70 days before discovering the New World. From 1804 to 1806, it took Lewis and Clark a mere...
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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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One of the main reasons that Louisiana has never realized its full potential, both in economic growth and quality of life for our citizens, has been due to the state’s traditionally poor public edu...
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Winston Churchill’s comments about the Battle of Egypt in 1942 popped into my mind when the Iowa Caucus vote was in: “This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhap...
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