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Thirty-year Old Gramercy Man Pleads Guilty To Manslaughter; Faces Maximum Of 40-Years In Prison

Thu, 09/08/2022 - 5:00am

Twenty-third Judicial District Attorney Ricky Babin’s office reports that on August 30th, 30-year-old Quannae Clark (502 N Ezidore St., Gramercy) pled guilty to Manslaughter in connection with the 2019 shooting death of 22-year-old Destin Smith. Clark’s guilty plea was the result of a plea agreement between he and prosecutors and the plea was taken just prior to opening statements of a scheduled jury trial. On February 11, 2019, St. James Parish Sheriff’s Deputies responded to a Lutcher apartment complex in reference to a shooting.

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Council Motion To Amend Land Use Plan Dies For Lack Of Second

Thu, 09/08/2022 - 5:00am

An ordinance to amend a section of the St. James Parish Code of Ordinances and to amend the St. James Parish Generalized Future Land Use Plan introduced by District 7 Councilman Donald Nash died on the table for lack of a second to the motion.

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Barry Weber Announces His Candidacy For Alderman At Large, Town of Lutcher

Thu, 09/08/2022 - 5:00am

I, Barry Weber am pleased to announce my candidacy for Alderman at Large for the Town of Lutcher. I was born at Dr. Nobile’s Clinic in Lutcher and will be 69 years old on September 18. After graduating from Lutcher High School in 1971, I attended the University of Southwestern Louisiana in Lafayette.

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Xyviara Davis, Lutcher Local Gets Accepted Into Medical School

Xyviara Davis, Lutcher Local Gets Accepted Into Medical School

Thu, 09/08/2022 - 5:00am

Xyviara Davis has been focusing and planning her life to become a doctor since she was a young girl. She credits her unwavering passion for pursing medicine to God, often saying “this is His plan.” As a seventh grade student at Lutcher High School, Xyviara began taking her high school courses so that she could begin dual enrollment courses as soon as she could. “As the middle of five, beautiful children, Xyviara was nothing short of the mediator, the glue, the problem solver and the therapist for her siblings and did everything she could to minimize the strain on me being a single mother” says mother of Xyviara. That was the fuel that helped her to excel in academics and graduate with over a 4.0 gpa and enough dual enrollment credits to gain her bachelors degree in biology in only 2 years from Louisiana State university.