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Mardi Gras season had its last hurrah Tuesday in east St. Mary Parish with the parades of the Krewe of Hephaestus in Morgan City, above, and of the Siracusa-Greenwood community in Siracusa. The Len...
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CROWLEY – Chyna Young’s inspiring struggle to overcome paralysis caused when she was shot four times by a former boyfriend is over. She died Wednesday of complications from her injuries. Chyna You...
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MELVILLE – A Natchitoches man is charged with robbing a bank here and two others are being sought. Police said Tyrone D. Byers was apprehended in Amarillo, Texas on Feb. 16 after a high-speed chas...
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BAKER – Baker Police have arrested a woman for allegedly molesting a juvenile boy at group home, said Baker Police Chief Mike Knaps. Detectives arrested Cynthia Haynes, 43, of 2116 Davenport Avenu...
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OPELOUSAS – A man faces more than 100 counts from alleged crawfish swindle. Police said Wendell Mason, 44, of Opelousas was arrested on 58 counts of theft and 53 counts of felony theft. He is all...
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GONZALES – Two children were killed and two others survived when their car crashed into a bayou late Tuesday. State Police said sheriff’s deputies arriving first at the scene were unable to rescue...
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SHREVEPORT – The Caddo Parish commissioners aren’t interested in becoming pajama police. The panel on Tuesday voted 8-4 not to put on its agenda a proposed ordinance to ban wearing PJs in public. ...
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June 15, 1935 — February 18, 2012 Russell Trosclair Sr., 76, a native of Chackbay and resident of Morgan City, passed away Saturday, Feb. 18, 2012. Russell is survived by his wife of 48 years, Vi...
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Deborah Maze, 46, a resident of Atlanta, died Tuesday at Embracing Hospice in Cumming, Ga. Jones Funeral Home will be in charge of arrangements, which are incomplete at this time.
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April 27, 1935 — February 19, 2012 Ervin J. “Picou” Richard was a Christian and loved his Lord and Savior Jesus Christ; he loved the word of God and read his Bible daily. Picou was a true Frenchma...
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WILSON JOSEPH ADAMS JR. August 8, 1951 ~ Feb. 19, 2012 Private memorial services will be held at a later date for Wilson Joseph Adams Jr., 60, a native and resident of Franklin, who passed away S...
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LSU Boyd professor BATON ROUGE – LSU professor emeritus Dr. Arthur Riopelle died Feb. 11 at age 91. He was a former Boyd professor, LSU’s highest teaching honor, of psychology. He was a U.S. Ar...
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March 5, 1979 — February 19, 2012 Chad Michael Barras, 32, a lifelong resident of Morgan City, passed away of natural causes at his residence on Sunday, Feb. 19, 2012. Chad is survived by his par...
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St. Mary Parish Sheriff Mark Hebert reported the following arrests from the past extended weekend: Chazz A. Barnes, 23, of 101 Arstille Road, Morgan City, was arrested Friday at 9:45 a.m. on a war...
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A jackknifed vehicle blocked both lanes of eastbound U.S. 90 causing traffic delays early Friday afternoon. Morgan City Police Chief Marc Folse said a Toyota Sequoia towing a utility trailer with ...
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After a call from a concerned citizen, a young man was arrested for possessing drugs and a loaded gun in Patterson. Kilo White, 22, was charged with illegal carrying of a weapon and third offense ...
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St. Mary Parish Sheriff Mark Hebert reported the following arrests this morning: Trone T. Triggs, 31, of 500 H Ninth Street, Franklin, was arrested Thursday at 8:52 a.m. on a warrant charging him ...
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A local man failed to register as a sex offender and was duly arrested. Steven Gray, 28, of Hunting Lane, Morgan City, was arrested Wednesday at 11:32 a.m. on a warrant for failure to register as ...
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St. Mary Parish Sheriff Mark Hebert reported the following arrests this morning: Steven Gray, 28, of 120 Hunting Lane, Morgan City, was arrested Wednesday at 11:32 a.m. on a warrant charging him w...
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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 a...
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A boy would likely be laughed out of the first grade today -- or certainly need a nickname -- if he was named the same as his great-grandpa, but it was once the fashion for Acadian families to give...
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The "little red church," on Hwy. 182 between Opelousas and Sunset has no pastor and no Sunday services but still has a large congregation that meets once each year. It's history dates to the year...
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War leaves lasting legacies, sometimes in places and ways that we least expect. That was the story behind the headline in October 1951 about a wedding in Vermilion Parish involving a World War II v...
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The United States Congress has authorized what some claim will mean unmanned drone aircraft to fly over U.S. skies, possibly as many as 30,000 by the year 2020. These would be available to federal...
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By JEAN L. KAESS I’ve been asked why I haven’t been writing columns lately. The answer is simple. I haven’t had anything to say. It is time to change that. Various recent situations have made m...
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By MACK SPENCER Private schools recruit. This should be no secret to anybody. Private schools don’t have the built-in advantage of public schools to expect the enrollment of any school-aged child...
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And another dadgum thing, while I’m on my high horse. What’s going on with the various so-called developments on the horizon, in Garden City and across the bayou from Parc sur la Teche? Anyone? Th...
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It’s time to get some things off my chest, and it ain’t going to be pleasant for either of us, I’m afraid. After several kind and helpful replies to last week’s column, “How It Happened,” I decide...
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By ROGER EMILE STOUFF I was mourning my seemingly endless inability to write anything but political columns lately, and then only once a week or so, when I stumbled upon the root of my problem. I...
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By GEOFFREY STOUTE The owners of Mr. Ronnie’s Hot and Famous Donuts in Houma are looking to expand into St. Mary Parish and currently are seeking those interested in purchasing a franchise between...
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BATON ROUGE — The Louisiana Association of Business and Industry, the state’s largest statewide business association, announced in September the creation of the new LABI Technology Advocacy Council...
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SM Energy third quarter net income increased by $214.6 million from the same period in 2010, and its stock soared by more than $3 per diluted share, both due to higher production, the sale of opera...
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Special to the Daily Review The latest tugboat to be part of the Settoon Towing fleet was christened the Fred A. Settoon on Nov. 4 in honor of owner Russ Settoon’s father. Settoon was the younge...
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NEW ORLEANS — The city’s most celebrated chefs and restaurateurs were on hand to help the Rouse family open its new market in the Arts District near the Mercedes Benz Superdome on Tuesday. This is...
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