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THIBODAUX — Larry Luther didn’t see the Facebook post by a Terrebonne Parish child-support hearing officer about a barroom bouncer appearing before him who has 23 children and “too much time on his hands.” But people who read a Courier and Daily Comet story containing questions about the posting’s propriety had little trouble determining who the posting was about and called Luther to tell him. Now the 41-year-old grandfather says he is preparing to file a Louisiana Judiciary Commission complaint against the hearing officer, William Dunckelman. “I am waiting on the papers in the mail,” Luther said Friday night. “I...

August 28. 2003 1:58AM Eunice officer indicted in teenager's death The Associated Press A Eunice police officer has been indicted on a malfeasance in office charge after investigators said he stopped a drunk driver then released the man, who later allegedly hit and killed a teenager. Daniel Vallere was indicted on one charge of vehicular homicide in the death of LaShanda Jones, 17. Jones died April 18 after being hit by a truck. Eunice Police Officer Raymond Cole was one of two officers said to have stopped Vallere before his truck hit Jones. The other officer was cleared. Jones was...