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WANTED: Rapides Parish Sheriff’s Department searches for Adron Perry Chandler
RAPIDES PARISH, La. (WNTZ) – Sheriff’s Detectives are requesting the public’s assistance in locating a suspect for domestic battery and sex offender failure to renew registration second offense. Adron Perry Chandler is a 46-year-old white male with brown hair. He is 5’8” tall and 155 pounds....
Rapides School Board considers options for $2.4 million windfall from bond sales
Faced with a windfall of about $2.4 million from sales of its District 62 bonds, members of the Rapides Parish School Board pondered Tuesday how to allocate those funds, keeping in mind that some changes — like the addition of tornado shelters — still are being made to current projects.
Beauregard School Board lends support to Title IX regulations challenge
The Beauregard Parish School Board is backing the state of Louisiana and the Louisiana Department of Education in a lawsuit challenging the changes to Title IX regulations. At the BPSB meeting on Thursday, the board unanimously passed a resolution pledging their support of the state and LDOE in the Louisiana litigation against the U.S Department […]
Anacoco man facing chemical castration after pleading guilty to aggravated crimes against nature
VERNON PARISH, La. (KALB) - A man from Anacoco has pled guilty to committing aggravated crimes against nature, according to Vernon Parish District Attorney Terry Lambright. Lambright said Steven Eugen Baker, 43, pled guilty on May 7 and agreed to serve 15 years in prison, life-long registration as a sex offender, life-long electronic monitoring and chemical castration.
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