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NEW YORK — Denim never goes out of style, but there are seasons when your old, reliable five-pocket jeans simply aren’t enough. This is one of those seasons.

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Jeanerette Police need help locating Kruston R. Gipson. He is 5′10″ and 185 lbs and was last seen wearing white hat, a light blue shirt, and dark blue jeans. Police say Gibson escaped officers during the booking process and has since tried to stop drivers in the area. He has multiple charges of Theft and Robbery on his record. The public is warned that this suspect could be armed and dangerous …

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Jeanerette Man Wanted After Walking Out Of Booking (KATC 3 Lafayette)

The recession is radically changing behavior among many different types of people, from the Wall Street bankers who are now waltzing into Wal-Mart for the first time to buy their groceries to teens who are now thumbing through the piles of status jeans at secondhand shops to save money. And experts say that such behavior could linger long after the economy recovers.

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Extreme cheapskates: Tightwads revel in frugality (The Shreveport Times)

It was a short taste of freedom today for an inmate who walked away from the DeSoto Parish jail in Mansfield. He will also lose his trustee status. Patrick Allen changed out of his trustee uniform and into some jeans and a shirt, then slipped away from the Detention Center this morning, sheriff’s deputies said. Less than an hour later, Allen was spotted running through a neighborhood outside the …

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Jail trustee recaptured one hour after walk-off (KTBS Shreveport)

A teenager whose arrest in a racially charged assault case drew protesters to his Louisiana hometown was in a hospital after a shooting that his lawyer called accidental. Mychal Bell was also arrested last week after allegedly stealing clothes from a department store.

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A teenager whose arrest in a racially charged assault case drew thousands of protesters to his rural Louisiana hometown was in a hospital Tuesday after a shooting that his lawyer said was accidental.

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‘Jena 6′ figure hospitalized after self-inflicted gunshot (CNN)