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St. Helena to take up strip club regulations
ST. HELENA – Strip clubs will be back on the Police Jury runway Tuesday night. Strip clubs have been the focus of most residents in St. Helena Parish for some years now. Some supporting them and o...
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Seahawks' Simon's encounter with detective was second in two nights; alleged resistance stopped after Taser 'painting'
NFL draftee and former LSU defensive back Tharold Simon of Eunice dropped resistance when Taser “painted” by the officer arresting him late Thursday night, the second night he had encountered polic...
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Pepiton
Man allegedly takes bat to head of another
DUPONT – A man who alleged used a baseball bat on the head of another is charged with attempted second-degree murder. According to Avoyelles Sheriff Doug Anderson, Brandon Pepiton, 31, of Dupont, a...
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August
Teen held in Abbeville slaying
ABBEVILLE – A teenager is charged with killing another in a Friday night shooting here. Walter August, 18, of Abbeville was charged early Monday with the second-degree murder of Jovontae Charles, ...
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Bicyclist killed in fatal crash on LA 308 in Raceland
RACELAND--Shortly after 8 p.m. Saturday evening, a bicyclist was killed on LA 308 in Lafourche Parish after he was struck from the rear by a vehicle, says TFC Evan Harrell with the Louisiana State ...
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Katydid
Marsh insect numbers continue to decline after 2010 oil spill
The day after the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig – April 21, 2010 – Linda Hooper-Bui, an LSU AgCenter entomologist, had a graduate student sampling insect populations in the marshes of ...
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Child predators sting charges include porn with juvies, indecent behavior, solicitation, incest
BATON ROUGE — Agents with the Louisiana Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force have arrested nine men as part of an undercover investigation targeting child predators across southern Louisiana...
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House panel rejects Medicaid expansion, Senate hearing to come
BATON ROUGE — A Senate committee next week will take up the issue of expanding Medicaid to cover more uninsured, an action a House panel turned down Wednesday. The House Health and Welfare Committe...
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Senate panel approves streamlining Louisiana adoption process
“Seventy-five hundred children will go through the foster care system in Louisiana this year. Streamlining the process to adoption will be one of the most important issues we address this legislati...
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New Orleans
fDi Magazine ranks New Orleans, Lafayette among top American cities of future
Over 400 cities considered; rankings based on economic potential, human resources, cost-effectiveness, infrastructure, business friendliness
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Bomb-sniffing K-9's in high demand since Boston blasts
ABBEVILLE – Bomb-sniffing dogs are in high demand after the Boston Marathon bombing, and USK-9 has a backorder for the specially trained dogs. In Boston after the bombing, bomb-sniffing dogs were u...
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Flood insurance premiums to jump 25 percent
MORGAN CITY – Pending National Flood Insurance Program premium increases will affect nearly 18,000 policies state-wide as soon as subsidies of their premium begin to be phased out. Specific residen...
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