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Department of Health and Hospitals will hold "Choose Health" meetings Feb. 27 - March 27; Medicaid and LaCHIP recipients to select plans
The Department of Health and Hospitals (DHH) recently announced, BAYOU HEALTH, a new way for most of Louisiana’s Medicaid and LaCHIP recipients to receive health care services. The state has contra...
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Harold "Hal" Leggett has been appointed to the Ground Water Resources Commission.
Jindal announces appointment of Hal Leggett to the Ground Water Resources Commission
Governor Bobby Jindal announced Feb. 17 the appointment of Harold “Hal” Leggett to the Ground Water Resources Commission. The Ground Water Resources Commission serves to review and approve or rejec...
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Sapa Extrusions dedicates Delhi expansion
Gov. Bobby Jindal and Sapa Delhi Plant Manager Ron Ballman announced Feb. 16 they have dedicated an expansion by Sapa Extrusions that will grow the company's Northeast Louisiana operations, creatin...
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Teen struggling to overcome shooting's effects succumbs to them
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 Youn...
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Natchitoches man held in Melville bank robbery, two others sought
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 chase...
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Former group home worker charged with molesting juvenile
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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Alleged crawfish swindle allegedly nets $120,000
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 alleg...
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Two children die when car crashes into bayou; two others, driver swim to safety
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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Caddo commissioners put proposed PJ law to rest
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. M...
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Man slips from float trailer tongue, run over and killed
NEW ROADS – Investigation continues into the death a man who fell from a Mardi Gras float on Tuesday. State Ppolice said the accident happened following the New Roads parade on Fat Tuesday. Investi...
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Louisiana National Guardsman Spc. Nicole Royall, 204th Theater Airfield Operations Group, is greeted as her unit returns home by Col. Patrick Bossetta, state aviation officer; Col. Barry Keeling, director joint staff; and Chief Warrant Officer 5 Kim Janneck, state command chief warrant officer, at Gulfport International Airport, Feb. 3, 2012. The unit's mission was to support Air Traffic Services throughout the theater of operations, while assuming the position of Aviation Brigade Headquarters for Army Central Command in Kuwait. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Master Sgt. Toby M. Valadie, Louisiana National Guard Public Affairs Office)
Louisiana National Guard Soldiers return home
204th Theater Airfield Operations Group completes fourth deployment
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Louisiana Propane Dealers to partner with LHSAA
The Louisiana Propane Dealers, through their state Market Develop Fund, have agreed to a partnership package with the Louisiana High School Athletic Association that will allow them to become the e...
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