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June 5

7:38 a.m. Accident, Maple & 1st.

11:05 a.m. Break-in, Food Bank.

11:34 a.m. Disturbance, Mary.

11:40 a.m. Wallet stolen, Wal-Mart.

Luke Lavergne

Jarrod Lavergne and Jessica Orr of Richard announce the birth of their son, Luke Michael Lavergne, born on May 22 at the Acadian Medical Center weighing 6 pounds and 13 ounces.

Maternal grandparents are George and Adele Orr of Lafayette.

The St. Landry Parish School Board took the initiative at its meeting Thursday, obviously tired of waiting on streamlining of policy, or policy enforcement, from school to school.

CROWLEY – Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday, June 7, 2008 at Woodlawn Cemetery in Crowley for Steve W. Wilkerson, 45, who died Tuesday, June 3, 2008 in Round Rock, Texas.

EUNICE – Funeral services will be held Saturday, June 7, 2008 at 11 a.m. at Starlight Baptist Church in Rayne for Viola Young Gibson, 94, who died Wednesday, May 28, 2008 at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Lafayette.

CROWLEY – Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday, June 7, 2008 at the Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church, 523 West 3rd. Street, for Rogers Ben Christman, Sr., 82, who quietly passed away Sunday, June 1, 2008 in Crowley, Louisiana.

Memorial services will be held for Jewell Comeaux Hains who died after a brief illness on June 4, 2008 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

LAFAYETTE – Better Business Bureau (BBB) is issuing an alert to warn online car shoppers that scammers are posing as phony escrow services in order to defraud consumers out of thousands of dollars.

By Howell Dennis

CITY EDITOR

By a unanimous vote of 102-0, the Louisiana House of Representatives approved a $300 million tax break Wednesday. The vote drew a round of applause from lawmakers. It was still undecided when taxpayers would begin to feel the relief.