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S. La. deaths raise concerns of serial killer
Found: 2 Weeks 3 Days 15 Hours 53 Minutes ago
The Sheveport Times - More than three years ago, Jefferson Davis Parish authorities began investigating the deaths of Jennings women who were known to live illicit lifestyles....
Local officers keep close eye on Jefferson Davis Parish killings
Found: 2 Weeks 3 Days 16 Hours 51 Minutes ago
Alexandria Daily Town Talk - Steve Kartsimas is interested. So is Steven Reed....
Jefferson Davis officials wonder if they have serial killer
Found: 2 Weeks 3 Days 16 Hours 52 Minutes ago
Alexandria Daily Town Talk - JENNINGS -- More than three years ago, Jefferson Davis Parish authorities began investigating the deaths of Jennings women who were known to live illicit lifestyles....
7th body turns up in Jefferson Davis Parish
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The News Star - JENNINGS ?More than three years ago, Jefferson Davis Parish authorities began investigating the deaths of Jennings women who were known to live illicit lifestyles....
Body of teen found, may be latest victim
Found: 2 Weeks 3 Days 18 Hours 5 Minutes ago
The Daily Advertiser - JENNINGS - More than three years ago, Jefferson Davis Parish authorities began investigating the deaths of Jennings women who were known to live illicit lifestyles....
Body discovered believed to be missing Jennings teen
Found: 2 Weeks 4 Days 1 Hour 22 Minutes ago
KPLC 7 News - It appears the search for 17 year old Brittney Gary has come to a very sad end. Jeff Davis authorities say this afternoon a family search party discovered a woman's body off Highway 1126. This is the 7th body found in Jennings since 2005....
Focusing on Sub-Groups
Found: 3 Weeks 3 Days 23 Hours 52 Minutes ago
KPLC 7 News - Assignment Education Reporter Amanda Ward takes a look at scores released by the State Department of Education and how our local districts are doing. ...
Louisiana death toll from Gustav rises even higher
Found: 2 Months 2 Weeks 4 Days 9 Hours 28 Minutes ago
WAFB 9 News - The state's chief medical officer says there have been 44 confirmed deaths as a result of Hurricane Gustav affecting Louisiana....
Battered La. waits for Ike's floodwaters to recede
Found: 2 Months 2 Weeks 4 Days 16 Hours 7 Minutes ago
The Sheveport Times - HACKBERRY, La. (AP) _ Lingering floodwaters and debris from Hurricane Ike kept much of coastal Louisiana off-limits to thousands of evacuees on Sunday, but work continued through the night and into Monday to clear roads, rescue the stranded and get hard-hit south Louisiana back to normal.Most of Louisiana's 250-mile coast was flooded by Ike, making it hard for search and rescue missions to reach people stranded in high waters. The hurricane also left behind vast destruction of a landscape still struggling since the deadly 2005 storm season and still crippled by Hurricane Gustav on Labor Day.At least 700 people had been rescued since Saturday, but about 170,000 homes were still without power, taking a toll on some residents who stayed behind as the storm struck Saturday."This won't ever happen to me again,"Levi Thomas said after being plucked from his home by National Guard troops in a motorboat in flooded Hackberry, about 15 miles inland from the Gulf Coast.His wife took the other view: Peggy Thomas said she only relented and allowed troops to ferry her to dry land because her husband was so tired of living without electricity.Other rescues took place in St. Mary Parish, where 65 people were moved to higher ground. Thirty people were saved near Gibson and Bayou Black on the outskirts of Houma, an inland oil and gas town.Flooding extended far inland. In Lake Charles, officials estimated as many as 500 homes remained underwater."We're hoping for the best, but with the water still being high in areas, we have to wait until it recedes before search and rescue teams can get in there,"said Veronica Mosgrove, a spokeswoman for Gov. Bobby Jindal's emergency operations.Ike's surge inundated many of the same villages, coastal resorts and towns that hurricanes Katrina and Rita washed over in 2005. At least six deaths have been attributed to the storm in Lousiana.Dr. Louis Cataldie, the state's chief medical officer, said two people died of natural causes brought on by the storm in Jefferson Davis Parish. In the same parish, two out-of-state contractors were electrocuted Sunday while helping restore power just southeast of Lacassine.Two deaths had been reported in Terrebonne Parish, where a 16-year-old boy in Bayou Dularge drowned and a 57-year-old man apparently was killed by Ike's gusty winds in Houma.In flood-surrounded Erath, medical teams braved the high waters and set up camp in a parking lot where they handed out medicine, stitched wounds and administered tetanus shots. Some flood victims were out of medicine, while others were gouged by sharp objects floating through floodwaters. Others suffered serious ant bites and boils."So far we've been able to handle everything,"said Dr. Andy Blalock, president of Louisiana Emergency Medical Unit, a group set up after Katrina to help with disaster response.Lines for water, ice and meals ready to eat, known as MREs, stretched a quarter of a mile, Blalock said.The fresh round of flooding was a blow to efforts to repopulate the extremities of south Louisiana, a subtropical landscape that has steadily vanished and become more vulnerable to hurricanes because of 2,000 square miles of coastal erosion.Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., said the new flooding highlighted Louisiana's vulnerability from that erosion. She said Ike's floodwaters rose into areas that hadn't flooded before."I sound like a broken record, but catastrophes are happening more frequently,"Landrieu said by telephone."We've lost hundreds of square miles of coastline that served as our first barrier of protection,"Landrieu said. "The nation is not investing anywhere near the money necessary to secure the coastal perimeter."Severe flooding was reported over astonishing distances ?from bayou towns near New Orleans to Lake Charles, a casino and refinery city of 70,000 on the Texas border.Many of the flooded homes were in places where a construction boom followed World War II and the discovery of oil and natural gas in the swamps and marshes of Cajun Louisiana.One such area is Cameron Parish, next to southeast Texas, where flooding was widespread and littered the marshes with ruined cars and trucks, mobile homes and houses, massive storage containers and tractor trailers.The Louisiana National Guard managed to get only a small number of huge military trucks all the way south to the Gulf Coast. Most of the convoy of Humvees and larger trucks couldn't get south of Hackberry ?where a wrecked shrimp boat for a time blocked the main highway. Guardsmen eventually used a bulldozer to shove the boat out of the way.But several feet of floodwater coursed across the highway. Strong currents and visibility problems made it impossible to move farther south to survey damage in towns such as Holly Beach and Cameron, said Sgt. Rebekah Malone, a Guard spokeswoman."You can't see the sides of the road, and if you left the road, you'd just be swept away,"Malone said.State transportation officials were with the convoy, waiting for the tide to go down so they could check the road's stability.A stretch of the same highway near Hackberry was swept away during Rita.Louisiana was on the northeast side of Ike's churning, and an extraordinary amount of water began piling up on the coast Friday. Floodwaters will likely linger for days, ruining homes and spoiling sugarcane fields and crawfish farms....
Ouachita opens shelter doors, again
Found: 2 Months 2 Weeks 6 Days 13 Hours 10 Minutes ago
The News Star - For the second time in as many weeks, Ouachita Parish began accepting evacuees. This time they are fleeing Hurricane Ike....
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