A woman found dead under a house in Houma has her boyfriend facing murder charges. Houma Police Chief Todd Duplantis says the body of 22 year-old Dashanta Tucker was located this morning, and the cause of death has not yet been determined …

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Forty-one year-old Michael Tucker has been charged with second-degree murder.

The LSU Health tumor registry has found colon cancer rates in Acadiana among the highest in the United States.

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That’s the study leader Doctor Jordan Karlitz, who is also at the Tulane University School of Medicine. The research focused on 18 parishes in the Acadiana, and he adds more research is needed.

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The Board of Regents has a new boss to oversee higher education in Louisiana. Texas Tech System administrator Joseph Rallo says he will look at the need for tuition hikes and the TOPS program.

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Rallo hopes to be on the job full-time in January.

Eunice Police are seeking the public’s help in locating a woman who robbed the State Bank and Trust with a fake bomb Thursday afternoon. Surveillance video showed a middle-aged woman with a baseball cap also produced a gun and got away with an undisclosed amount of money. State Police Bomb Squad arrived and determined the package she left at the scene was not a bomb. It was the second fake bomb robbery in about year in Eunice.