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9 hrs ago | KLFY-TV Lafayette

D.A. gets report on fatal crash

New Roads Police Chief Kevin McDonald says the findings in a police investigation of a fatal traffic wreck have been forwarded to the district attorney.

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Wed Dec 30, 2009

WAFB-TV Baton Rouge

Tensions high in New Roads after deadly car accident

Tensions are high in New Roads just days after a deadly car accident. On Christmas Eve, Terri Parker, 23, was killed after she was ejected from her car.

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Mon Jul 13, 2009

NOLA.com

Jefferson school board puts unused evacuation trailers up for bid

Twenty travel trailers owned by the Jefferson Parish public school system have been put up for auction this week, after the School Board decided to abandon a $5,000-a-month evacuation shelter that housed the trailers in Pointe Coupee Parish.

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Tue Jul 07, 2009

Times-Picayune

Schools done with upstate storm shelter

Superintendent Diane Roussel has decided that the Jefferson Parish public school system no longer needs a $5,000-a-month evacuation shelter in Pointe Coupee Parish and is recommending that the School Board dismantle it.

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Wed Jun 17, 2009

Times-Picayune

Storm brews over site for evacuation

Jefferson Parish school administrators hope they never go through another Katrina, but have been spending about $5,000 a month for the past three years just in case they do.

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