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Game Changer
Lighthouse Bend Resort Will Attract Visitors, New Businesses To Cameron Parish By Karla Wall By this time next year, Cameron Parish will be home to a recreation destination that will draw fishermen, boaters, families
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Pet Saviors
What We Learn From Animal Rescues By Madelaine B. Landry When people are forced to evacuate their homes in the face of oncoming natural disasters, they rush about madly, packing up their families, photos,
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Mount Trashmore
What Does Your Storm Debris Say About You? By Brad Goins Not long after Laura hit, local government sent out a press release that made it clear that when people put their wreckage from
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Toni Jo & Burke
The Bungled Crimes Of Lake Charles’ Most Famous Murderer By Brad Goins Toni Jo Henry was only 24 when she became the first and only woman to die in the electric chair in Louisiana.
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Bill Hicks Was Right About Everything
(Except Remembering His Gig In Lake Charles) By Todd C. Elliott The holy trinity of stand-up comics of the last half of the 20th century may have been George Carlin, Richard Pryor and Bill
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‘Obstinately Optimistic’
James Johnson Has Learned How To ‘Move Forward’ In Spite Of Major Adversities By Brad Goins Fr Johnson, the new millennium brought the birth of a daughter. When Gracie was three, her parents
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Gnats
By Kristian Bland On the big list of use-less creatures Noah could’ve left off the ark and no one would have even cared, gnats and mosquitoes are right. up at the top. And after
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Jimi Hendrix
Did Jimi Hendrix Play In Lake Charles By Todd C. Elliott and Bam Arceneaux The question of whether rock legend Jimi Hendrix played live music in Lake Charles is a fair one. Southwest Louisiana
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MREs
When I was a 12-year-old kid living on the West Coast, my best friend and neighbor, Scott, and I were always hanging out and getting into something. Like most adventurous boys, when the mundane
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A LONG, STRANGE TRIP SO FAR
Tigers Defense Struggles To Gain Traction In Re-Arranged Schedule Story By Ron Higgins It has been nine months since LSU accepted the national championship trophy after blasting Clemson in a Mercedes-Benz Superdome confetti shower. Heisman
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