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Play-by-play, New Orleans Saints vs. Indianapolis Colts, Super Bowl 44

New Orleans, calls heads, wins coin toss, elects to receive.

1st Quarter
Roby takes kick at 3, tackled at 23
1st &10 at 23
Pierre Thomas, runs for 2 yards.

A Rayville man was helping with the relief effort for Haiti last week.

Michael Burnette, the son of David Brown and Zelma James of Rayville, was one of the workers at St. Francis Medical Center in Columbus, Ga., who was preparing relief packages for shipment to Haiti.

Burnette is a 1986 graduate of Rayville High School. He specializes in sterilizing hospital equipment at the Georgia hospital.

The Richland Parish Police Jury is moving ahead with plans to clean up Cow Bayou in the hopes of cutting down on flooding in the area.

The newest effort involves using an $800,000 grant from the Office of Emergency Preparedness to fund some of the work. To move this forward, jurors are getting papers signed in order to show the roads affected by flooding from Cow Bayou.

Unfortunately, Police Juror Judy Green said, some people don’t want to sign the papers.

A Rayville man has been arrested for armed robbery.

Dameon D. Murray, 23, of 106 Ancestry St., Rayville, was charged with one count of armed robbery following an investigation by the Rayville Police Department.

He was booked into the Richland Parish Detention Center and held under $100,000 bond.

Rayville Police Chief Willie Robinson said the charges stem from the July 22, 2009 armed robbery of Tobacco Express.

A four-vehicle accident snarled traffic near Rayville Monday afternoon, but no one was injured.

Louisiana State Troopers responded to the accident on Interstate 20 near Rayville after the driver of a westbound vehicle lost control and sideswiped another westbound vehicle.

The second car entered the median before striking two more vehicles in the eastbound lane.

No one was injured as a result of the accident, but State Troopers had to shut down the eastbound lane of the I-20 for about 40 minutes, causing traffic to back up until the road could be cleared.

The 4-H program hosted Horse Events in conjunction with the 70th annual Northeast Louisiana Livestock Show Jan. 30 in the Horse Barn in Delhi.

The English Walk Trot and Dressage events started at 9 a.m. and were followed by the Western Showmanship, Western Walk Trot and Western Horsemanship events.
The competitors in “Under 13” were Macie Clark, Isabella Dawson, Alana Florice, Clint Hargrave, Lindsey Hebert, Kirsten Hendry and Camille Watts.