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Pedestrian struck by SUV, killed in Lafayette Parish, state troopers report

The Advocate 22 Mar 2025
A Houma man was killed Friday when he was struck by an SUV while trying to remove debris from the roadway on La. 98 near Vatican in Lafayette Parish, State Police said ... .
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Pedestrian Killed in Concordia Parish Crash

Avoyelles Today 22 Mar 2025
On March 21, 2025, at approximately 7.40 a.m., Louisiana State Police Troop E responded to a fatal crash on Louisiana Highway 569 near Ferriday. This crash killed 46-year-old Jason R. Tipton of Vidalia ... News ....
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Bruton Parish Church hangs plaque to explain existing Civil War-era tablet

Daily Press 22 Mar 2025
WILLIAMSBURG — Unbeknown to parishioners and the public, Bruton Parish Church officials hung a new plaque explaining an existing Civil War-era tablet that honors dead Confederate soldiers from the 1862 Battle of Williamsburg.
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Community meeting on CO2 projects set for Monday

American Press 22 Mar 2025
The Allen Parish Police Jury is hosting a public hearing at 6 p.m ... “The whole plan is for people to have access to the reports and be able to ask questions,” Allen Parish Police Juror and Louisiana CO2 Alliance Chairman Roland Hollins said.
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Court grants injunction against Portmore becoming parish - Jamaica Observer

Jamaica Observer 21 Mar 2025
... case brought by the People\u2019s National Party (PNP) against the government in Portmore parish matter.
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Push underway in Legislature to put East Baton Rouge parks agency under city-parish control

The Advocate 21 Mar 2025
Rep. Dixon McMakin, a Baton Rouge Republican, filed legislation to place BREC under city-parish control. He also filed a separate bill to change the commission's makeup ... .
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A man led police on a high-speed chase from Abbeville to Lafayette Parish, police say

The Advocate 21 Mar 2025
Abbeville police arrested a man after he led them on a high-speed chase beginning in Abbeville and ending in Lafayette Parish on Thursday ... .
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Ascension Parish teachers named finalist, semifinalist for state honors

Gonzales Weekly Citizen 21 Mar 2025
The Louisiana Department of Education announced the teachers, principals and early childhood leaders who are semifinalists and finalists for the state's overall honors, including two from Ascension Parish ... Cade Brumley said in the announcement ... J ...
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PNP welcomes Supreme Court’s injunction against Portmore becoming parish - Jamaica Observer

Jamaica Observer 21 Mar 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica \u2014 The People\u2019s National Party (PNP) has welcomed the Supreme Court\u2019s decision to grant an interim injunction on the Government\u2019s move to make Portmore Jamaica\u2019s 15th parish.
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3/21: Calcasieu Parish Sheriff announces arrest list

American Press 21 Mar 2025
The Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s Office reported the following arrests.. Bryan Keith Richard, 40, 1618 Church St ... Bond. $20,500. Kenneth Ray Holmes Childs, 41, 1718 9th St ... Gustavo Adolfo Delri-Lopez, 41, 3912 Vanderbilt St ... Bond. $8,100 ... Bond. $350,000 ... Bond ... .
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Kentucky man at center of Rapides Parish fraud case pleads guilty to 2 misdemeanors

Town Talk 21 Mar 2025
A former Broussard resident who was found to have defrauded an elderly man out of the ownership of his Rapides Parish store pleaded guilty on Wednesday to two misdemeanors in his criminal case.
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Battle at the Boucherie: Three Terrebonne Parish officials to have pirogue race rematch

Houma Today 21 Mar 2025
Three Terrebonne officials will have a rematch this weekend of a pirogue race that last year left the Parish President swimming ... Parish Sheriff Tim Soignet and the Houma Police Chief Travis Theriot.
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Long Before She Was Charged With Murder, a Group of Men Had Raised an Alarm

New York Times 21 Mar 2025
“I told the judge, I told the D.A., that she was going to kill somebody,” said David Butler, one of several men who said they had been drugged and defrauded by the same woman in New Orleans ... .
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