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Lake Charles · Lake CharlesThe Beauregard Parish Police Jury at its special session meeting on Monday approved a motion to get price estimates for two new vehicles for the Region 5 Sanitation Department. The Health Unit — which will be paying for the vehicles out of their own funds — have requested the vehicles be 4-wheel drive or all-wheel drive for some of the rural areas the Health Unit drives to. President Mike Harper said at least one of the two vehicles being used a…See the Story
Beauregard Police Jury to seek estimates to replace Health Unit vehicles - American Press
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Lake Charles · Lake CharlesLAKE CHARLES, La. (KLFY) -- A Lake Charles man is accused of repeatedly raping two children, authorities said. Brandon S. Cormier, 44, of Lake Charles, is charged with first degree rape and third degree rape. Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s Office Special Victims Unit detectives received a complaint June 24 in reference to a rape. Detectives were told by two girls they were raped on multiple occasions by Cormier. The victims further disclosed the sex…Read Article
Lake Charles man accused of raping two children on multiple occasions
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Power Outages · Lake CharlesRecord-shattering cold temperatures caused a critical water shortage, a brief power outage and dozens of frozen pipes in Southwest Louisiana during the winter of 1985. “If we had a major problem such as a fire, we wouldn’t have enough water to fight it,” Ben Hockey of the Greater Lake Charles Water Co. told the Lake Charles American Press for its Tuesday, Jan. 22, 1985, edition. He said the storage tank at Center Street east was empty and the ta…Read Article
The Informer: Record cold troubled Lake Charles for days in 1985 - American Press
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