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5/9/2013
Living With Alzheimer's: Part 2
Posted 2:51 PM 5/10/2013 by Chris Welty
Hundreds of families are learning to cope with Alzheimer's dementia.
The disease is debilitating. Alzheimers' affects memory, thinking and behavior. Symptoms usually develop slowly and worsen over time, becoming severe enough to interfere with daily tasks. One out of three seniors die with (More)...
5/8/2013
Living With Alzheimer's: Part 1
Posted 10:19 AM 5/9/2013 by Chris Welty
Every minute, someone in the world is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and more than 5-million Americans are living with that disease right now.
Growing up, I spent summers with my grandparents, James and Marie Smith, at their home in New Orleans. Paw-Paw is mild-mannered and has always (More)...
"Tent Crusades" In Abbeville Hope To End The Violence
Republican Lawmakers Want to Expand ObamaCare
Shane Vincent Arrested at Wal Mart
5/7/2013
Kaliste Saloom Expansion Planned
Posted 7:17 PM 5/7/2013 by Chris Welty & Tina Macias
Roads across Acadiana desperately needing repairs could be funded if a bill makes it through the legislature.
Two House Committees passed the State's Capital Outlay budget, House Bill 2. The full house could vote on it this week.
The bill would pay for for billions of dollars in (More)...
Heads up for Lafayette drivers
5/6/2013
LPSS Issues Statement Regarding Recent Bomb Threats
Posted 9:48 PM 5/6/2013 by Steven Albritton
After three bomb threats this year, two in the past week , Lafayette Parish School Administrators say "enough is enough." The threats were very specific, and referenced pressure cooker bombs like those used in the Boston Marathon bombings.
Thursday, Broussard Middle School was evacuated. (More)...
Flood Insurance Rates May Rise
Italy state TV: Ex-Premier Giulio Andreotti dies
5/3/2013
Voters to Decide on Property Tax to Support Basile High
Posted 7:03 PM 5/3/2013 by Chris Welty
In Acadia and Evangeline Parishes, voters will decide whether to renew a 10-year property tax to fund the Basile High School Athletic Department.
The tax generates roughly 74-thousand dollars for the school. The property tax, enacted nearly thirty years ago, has been renewed three times. (More)...
Wildlife & Fisheries Commission sets shrimp dates
Oil tank explodes in Louisiana; homes evacuated
5/2/2013
Police Looking for Clues into Pressure Cooker Bomb Threat
Posted 6:02 PM 5/2/2013 by Chris Welty
The search is on for whoever threatened to blow up Broussard Middle School using a pressure cooker bomb.
The campus is on South Morgan Street off the Amabassador Caffery Extension. Around 9:30 Thursday morning, Broussard Police evacuated students to a nearby church.
After a two hour (More)...
Shots fired at Houston airport; 1 injured
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