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St. Martin Parish arrests for Monday, Feb. 29, through Sunday, March 6

Monday, Feb. 29
Crenshaw, Harrison, 33, Mobile, Ala.; possession - Schedule II narcotics, St. Martin Sheriff’s Department (SMSO).
Dore, Brock, 41, 1500 block of Duchamp Rd., Broussard; probation violation (SMSO).
Lavergne, Trey, 22, 500 block of Main St., Arnaudville; failure to appear, warrant (SMSO).

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St. Martinville Man Wanted For Failure To Appear For Possession of Cocaine

Deputies with the St. Martin Parish Sheriff’s Office are asking for the public’s assistance in locating Brandon W. Bourda, 34, who may be residing in the 200 block of Maraist St., St. Martinville, LA.
He is wanted for Failure to Appear for the following:
Possession of Schedule II-Cocaine

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SCENE OF THE CRIME – The mobile home where two women lost their lives in an apparent act of domestic violence Saturday. Two young boys were spared because they had gone to visit their father.
(Louisiana State Fire Marshal)

Mother, daughter found dead in burning trailer

Investigators with the State Fire Marshal’s Office and the St. Martin Parish Sheriff’s Office continue to piece together the circumstances they say led a Lafayette man to brutally murder an elderly woman and her daughter before torching their home Saturday afternoon.

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An assembly of commercial fishermen, sportsmen, naturalists and politicians – that’s state Rep. Mike Huval at left – gather in the gym at Catahoula Elementary for last year’s annual meeting of the Louisiana Crawfish Producers Association - West.

‘Swamp people’ seek reinforcement

Keeping the Atchafalaya Basin “wet and wild” in face of powerful competing exigencies has been a gargantuan Gordian knot for the more than 40 years since the federal and state governments staked out this goal.
The Mississippi River is dead-set on drying up the Basin with diverted sediment.

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The 2016 high school football season has reached the halfway mark and the District 5-4A campaign begins Friday for the league’s five teams.

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