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LIVINGSTON — Deputies found three bodies in a rural home Friday afternoon after receiving a frantic 911 call from a relative of the family, the Livingston Parish Sheriff’s Office reported.
A jury on Friday heard Dacarius Holliday give Baton Rouge police detectives several “scenarios’’ explaining how his girlfriend’s 2-year-old son could have died in his care from what a forensic pathologist called multiple traumatic injuries. Darian Coon’s mother testified tearfully today that her boyfriend, Dacarius Holliday, never told her how her 2-year-old son died May 14, 2007, while Holliday was home alone with the toddler. An emotional Amanda Coon testified on the third day of Holliday’s first-degree murder trial that Holliday called her at work and told her it was “real important’’ for her to come home. Residential permit fees, enforcement of ordinances and privatized city services were among the issues city of Central mayoral candidates addressed during a Thursday debate. The chairman of the state Senate transportation panel said Friday he asked for an attorney general’s opinion on the legality of the newly imposed $15 increase in the cost of a driver’s license. The Internal Revenue Service is investigating people who invested in jailed Texas promoter Robert Allen Stanford’s multibillion-dollar offshore operations, federal court records in Dallas show. Lafayette-based Home Bancorp Inc. has acquired the assets and deposits of Covington-based Statewide Bank, which had seven locations in the St. Tammany Parish area and is the first Louisiana bank to fail since December 2002. With the warmer, drier days of spring approaching, homeowners’ thoughts tend to wander toward removing overgrown trees and diving into some other yard-related cleaning. The resulting debris needs to go somewhere, and for most people in East Baton Rouge Parish that somewhere is normally the curb. Baton Rouge state Rep. Regina Barrow will hop a city bus Monday morning to travel from LSU’s Earl K. Long Medical Center to Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center. Metro Councilman Chandler Loupe late Friday issued a written report to the council detailing his complaints about the operations of the parish attorney’s office. Gov. Bobby Jindal for a second time Friday rejected a proposed state employee pay raise plan, once again saying it did not provide enough flexibility for agency heads to determine worker pay. State government is sending technicians to Haiti to install two FM radio stations to help improve communications for emergency personnel. Louisiana lost 42,200 jobs over the 12 months ending in January, with 1,868,100 nonfarm jobs by the end of the first month of the year. East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office deputies arrested a 23-year-old man Friday accused of inappropriately touching an 11-year-old girl, according to an arrest warrant. LAFAYETTE — Building community is not about “fixing” problems, but about making connections, an expert in the field of community development told a group of 30 people gathered Friday for a workshop sponsored by the United Way of Acadiana. ST. FRANCISVILLE — The West Feliciana Parish School Board interviewed two candidates for the post of superintendent Friday but delayed a decision on the candidates. LAFAYETTE — Balancing enrollment growth among the state’s community and technical colleges with fewer resources will continue to be a challenge in the coming fiscal year, Louisiana Community and Technical College President Joe May told a group of Acadiana community and business leaders Friday. GONZALES — An Ascension Parish Council panel has given its nod to an agreement that would allow inmates from the Sheriff’s Office prison to do work at the parish-owned Lamar-Dixon Expo Center in exchange for $500 in surplus kitchen equipment. GONZALES — A 10-month run of declining monthly sales tax collections in Ascension Parish halted in February but likely the slide would have continued if not for several large, one-time audits in the petrochemical sector, parish officials said Thursday. A Greensburg lawyer pleaded guilty Friday in Houston to laundering $480,000 given to him by an international drug trafficking organization in an effort to buy an aircraft for the ring, federal prosecutors said. THIBODAUX — A man charged with the 1992 killing of a Thibodaux priest cannot receive prison time if convicted, a judge has ruled. GREENSBURG — The Louisiana Recovery School District on Thursday night delivered a report to the St. Helena School Board harshly critical of troubled Central Middle School, a target for state takeover later this year. A prominent University of Louisiana at Lafayette faculty member appears to have improperly received more than $126,000 from the school the past four years, according to an internal audit report finalized this week. NEW IBERIA — Officials at the Acadiana Regional Airport will soon know what hazards birds and other wildlife pose to air traffic and what to do about it. Early voting for the March 27 election begins Saturday and ends March 20, excluding Sunday. The ballot includes a variety of propositions, municipal elections and special elections. LIVINGSTON — The Livingston Parish School Board plans to build multipurpose facilities at Northside and Southside elementary schools in Denham Springs, School Board member Buddy Mincey said Thursday night. The Louisiana Economic Development Corp. board approved a $2 million loan Friday for Cameron International Corp. to complete a $54 million expansion of its Ville Platte valves and measurement facility. NEW ORLEANS — LSU sophomore Tessa Teachman shares the lead after the first round of the Tiger-Wave women’s Golf Classic Friday at English Turn Golf and Country Club. Today's funeral notices. |
