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BATON ROUGE – The Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission (LWFC) adopted notices of intent for the 2013-14 hunting season and the 2012-13 Wildlife Management Areas (WMA) General Rules and Regul...
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ABBEVILLE – Applications will be accepted Feb. 12-March 5 for superintendent of the Vermilion Parish School Board. Supt. Randy Schexnayder has announced he will retired in August of next year. The...
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CROWLEY – A teenager accused of first-degree murder took the state’s offer of accessory after the fact, pleading no contest and getting 33 months at hard labor rather than risk life in prison. Ove...
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MONROE – A landmark Monroe restaurant - The Chateau - will close in March. The eatery has operated on Louisville Avenue for more than 45 years. Victor Cascio sold the restaurant to Monroe develo...
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As of this writing, no one within the judicial bureaucracy has responded to last week’s column noting that persons accused of sex crimes get special treatment in St. Landry Parish. Minutiae about ...
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PINEVILLE - Department of Health and Hospitals Secretary Bruce D. Greenstein and Pineville Mayor Clarence Fields announced Wednesday a two-phased plan to vacate the current Central State Hospital ...
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By Rob Schwarzwalder “I never met a man I didn’t like,” Will Rogers is reputed to have said. That maxim might represent a healthy outlook on life, but should likeability be a priority as we cons...
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By Patrick J. Quinlan, M.D. Congratulations to the City of Alexandria and the Southern University System on promoting better health and longer life with their recent decision to ban tobacco use....
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By Robert L. Bradley, Jr. As part of the newly-signed payroll tax cut bill, the White House has 60 days to decide whether to approve the Keystone XL pipeline. This project has become a hot-topi...
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Today’s post-holiday activities probably include going to the gym and working out. No need for this long ago. With gifts of deer sausage and wild ducks coming in this year, it brought to mind th...
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Follow-up on the article I did on premiums that were found in the sacks of flour: one of the better-known flours was from the Sleepy Eye Milling Company in Sleepy Eye, Minn. That might sound a li...
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With the approach of winter, you’re being warned to get your heater ducts cleaned, check your car for anti-freeze and protect your pets and pipes. Most important, you need to get your flu and pn...
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Baptist camps manager RUSTON – Services will be Feb. 11 for retired Southern Baptist camp manager Joe Backus. He died Feb. 1 at age 82. He helped organize Acadian Baptist Center in Eunice and w...
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RUSTON – A Celebration of His Life Memorial Service for Joe Carroll Backus, 82, of Ruston, will be held at 10 a.m. February 11, 2012 at Cook Baptist Church in Ruston, La. Dr. Mike Holloway will of...
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EUNICE~ Fredrick “Fred” Duplechain at Oaklane Wellness & Rehabilitation Center in Eunice on the afternoon of Wednesday, February 01, 2012. He was 67. A Celebration of Life will be held at Ardoin’s...
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Former prosecutor RUSTON – Services for former prosecutor as well as defense lawyer James Lewis will be Saturday. He died Jan. 29. He was a former Marine Corps captain, taught business law at U...
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VIDOR, Texas ~ Catherine J. Williams, 51, of Vidor died Friday, January 27, 2012 at Oakwood Manor Nursing Home in Vidor. She was a lifelong resident of Vidor. Funeral services were held at 2:00 p...
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LAKE CHARLES ~ Clara Ellen LaFargue Thibodeaux, 58, of Lake Charles died Saturday January 21, 2012 in a Houston, Texas hospital. She a graduate of Eunice High School and lived in Lake Charles most...
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Feb. 3 Wilbert James Istre, Jr., age 37, 331 June Street, Eunice, La., two counts of unlawful presence of a sex offender, two counts of failure to register as a sex offender, criminal trespass, ...
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Thursday, Feb. 2 0738 Investigation, drugs found, 100 block Jeanne. 0939 Fight, 1600 block W. Vine. 1006 Disturbance, Sunrise Community. 1030 Report of drugs, 1900 block W. Oak. 1046 Investiga...
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Feb. 2 Neal Jude Tahan, 42, 181 Jeanne St.; possession of drug paraphernalia, expired license plates. Nicholas Brock Boone, 24, 441 Eula; possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of Schedule ...
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Wednesday, Feb. 1 0032 Suspicious person, 1300 block Dudley. 0035 Caller advises boyfriend’s ex-girlfriend broke window, 300 block Corn. 0111 Suspicious person, 2300 block W. Laurel. 0131 Distu...
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Feb. 1 Ariel Nicole Arnaud, 20, 300 Corn St., #D; false swearing.
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Willie John David of Eunice was charged December 17, with failure to comply with PFD requirements and failure to have a PFD on a person under 17 while under way. •Kelly John David of Eunice was ch...
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Andrew Young Jr., former congressman, mayor of Atlanta and ambassador to the United Nations, is known around the world for his diplomatic skills and leadership in the civil rights movement. His d...
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The swallows fly back to Capistrano to herald the coming of spring but locally it’s the large number of trailers and wagons flying down any given street that announces the coming of Mardi Gras in C...
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Louisiana French music began to get a wide national audience in the 1970s after masters of the craft like Bois Sec Ardoin and Canray Fontenot, the Balfa Brothers, Nathan Abshire, and others were in...
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Yes, Virginia, there is another part of the state that celebrates Mardi Gras besides this area. Granted, ours is better, but for the most part, people come from all over the world to take part in ...
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Revisionist historians have been telling us since the Revolution that American history began in the 13 "original" Atlantic colonies and that hardy, English-speaking pioneers pushing across the moun...
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Whatever choices the St. Landry Parish School Board made Wednesday night to balance its current budget are but a glimpse at what’s coming next. The board, according to its acting superintendent an...
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