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Student's and Project Step at Sumner High School along with sponsor's Kentwood Fire Department, Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff's Office, District Attorney's Office,Tangipahoa Parish Coroner's Office, Lo...
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ABBEVILLE – Welsh Parks and Recreation Director and former college baseball coach Jerry Martinez has accepted a similar position with the City of Abbeville. The City Council hired him Tuesday nigh...
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SHREVEPORT – A jury deliberated two hours before recommending the death penalty for murder Robert Coleman. The jury earlier convicted Coleman, 41, of killing a retired minister. In 2002, Coleman ...
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BATON ROUGE – Cotton farmer Noble Ellington, but more notably a 24-year legislator, looking for a job, is the new chief deputy insurance commissioner. Commissioner Jim Donelon said Ellington will ...
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ST. MARTINVILLE – The gloves came off at Monday night’s City Council meeting when Mayor Thomas Nelson defended his decision to call in the Louisiana State Police to patrol the city’s neighborhoods....
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ST. MARTINVILLE – The pile of cash was four times the annual income of the woman carrying it. It was concealed in a “hidden compartment” in her car. According to a police dog trained in such matt...
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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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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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Mildred Ann Bass Spence, 62, passed away at 10:05 a.m., Tuesday, February 7, 2012 at her residence surrounded by her loving family. She was a native of New Orleans and a resident of Amite. She was...
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Long-time city clerk SHREVEPORT – Services for Shreveport City Clerk of Court Virginia Hester will be Friday. She died Feb. 7 at age xx. She had been employed by the city since 1970. Arrangeme...
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Ian Russell Guzzardo, infant son of Russ and Ashley Guzzardo of Amite, was born into this world at 6:21 a.m. and delivered into the arms of angels at 7:35 a.m. Monday January 30, 2012 at Woman’s Ho...
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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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Richard Stamm, 87 years old, passed away on February 2, 2012, due to complications of pneumonia. He resided in Greensburg, LA, for the past five years. Richard “Dick” Stamm was born on July 27, 192...
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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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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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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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District Attorney Scott M. Perrilloux reports the following individuals appeared in District Court before various judges: Anthony Bailey, Osyka, age 27, appeared in court on October 13, before Ju...
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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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Governor Bobby Jindal recently revealed his legislative package to revamp the way Louisiana funds its state retirement plans. His proposals aim to tackle accumulated unfunded pension debt that bega...
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Tis the season to make fun of politicians as people have done for ages but in the coming presidential election, I believe we have to recognize and understand that this election may be the most impo...
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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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