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SLEIDD begins semi-public process for picking new director
Some pundit once summarized it this way: If you don’t want your life public don’t apply for public work. While that is an oversimplification of the push and pull between public right to know and pe...
Feb 28, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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Jeff Davis Bank CEO and President, Boyd Boudreaux, at far right, surveyed the rooftop of Eunice City Hall with Eunice Fire Department personnel and communications contractors on Friday to search for an amicable solution for their controversial 180-foot monopole tower used for the bank's network.
City, bank reach possible tower solution
by Todd C. Elliott todd.elliott@eunicetoday.com Communication prevailed at Friday’s meeting between Eunice city officials and Jeff Davis Bank officials and their contractors. Jack Burson, alderman-...
Feb 25, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
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From the Files ... 1989
From files of The Eunice News: February 1989 The Chamber of Commerce board elected Sharon Fontenot as executive vice president. She plans to keep her City Council seat until the term expires next...
Feb 24, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Jilted boyfriend allegedly tried to throw bleach in ex's face
A man who allegedly tried to throw bleach in the face of his ex-girlfriend faces several charges. Police receive a call from Terrance Jones alleging the woman stabbed him in the hand and took his c...
Feb 19, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
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$1,000 restitution ordered in home invasion
A Eunice man will pay $1,000 in restitution to the victim of a home invasion he was involved with. Drakeeno Mitchell was one of three men charged with armed robbery, theft, false imprisonment, home...
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From the Files ... February 1963
From files of The Eunice News: February 1963 Councilman A.R. Picou has begun an effort to find out the status of the city’s lawsuit over defective sewer line installation that is causing some new...
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Grammy winner for "The Courbouillon Band" CD, Steve Riley (right) performs with Kevin Wimmer (left) on stage with Steve Riley & The Mamou Playboys on the Eunice Mardi Gras stage in downtown.
Grammy winner Steve Riley talks Grammy win
by Todd C. Elliott todd.elliott@eunicetoday.com Winning a Grammy is like finding the baby in a king cake on Mardi Gras for Steve Riley of Mamou. However, the recent Grammy winner said that next ye...
Feb 15, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Sheet with a Eunice appeal hands from crippled liner Thursday morning.
A Eunice appeal from stranded cruise ship
A Carnival cruise ship with at a Eunice group aboard is being pushed by tug toward Mobile, Ala. The ship, stranded in the Gulf of Mexico when a fire rendered its engines inoperable, has about 3,000...
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Barry Bordelon Senior of Eunice
Family drug ring arrest
by Todd C. Elliott todd.elliott@eunicetoday.com It’s a family tradition for the Bordelon family: allegedly filling forged prescriptions for Carisoprodol 120 times, Alprazolam 60 times and Hydrocodo...
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From the Files ... February 1935
From files of The Eunice News: February 1935 Eunice is to have a new rice mill, costing about $20,000. The plant, to be installed in the old Fruge Warehouse, has been shipped from German and will...
Feb 11, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Eunice PD seek Sunday driver involved in hit-and-run
by Todd C. Elliott todd.elliott@eunicetoday.com Eunice Police are looking for a Super Bowl Sunday driver that, allegedly, “purposely” hit a pedestrian, according to the victim. Police are looking f...
Feb 04, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
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Newpaper's primary phone line out of service, other lines available
The primary phone number into The Eunice News (457-3061) is not functioning due a Charter Communication switching problem. However, the newspaper's business, advertising and news offices can be rea...
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Sheriff to close on site for administrative offices
by Todd C. Elliott todd.elliott@eunicetoday.com The St. Landry Parish Sheriff’s Department seeks to centralize its office with the purchase and renovation of a new administrative building in Opelo...
Mar 14, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
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Deferred sentence, probation close home invasion case
A May 2010 home invasion case is closed with the deferred sentencing of a Eunice man. Drakeeno Mitchell’s sentenced was deferred by Judge Elllis Daigle and Mitchell was placed on three years active...
Mar 12, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
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Educator, civil rights activist George Fisher dies in head-on collision; Church Point man charged
Eunice retired educator and civil rights activist George Fisher was killed Sunday night when his vehicle was hit head-on by a pickup truck driven by an unlicensed and suspected impaired driver on L...
Mar 11, 2013 | 1 1 comments | 32 32 recommendations | email to a friend
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Hometown Heroes: Kevin Simon, Beth Ardoin
Kevin Simon Kevin Simon, son of Felicien and Hazel Simon of Eunice, has been voted Best Play-by-Play radio broadcaster by the Texas Associated Press. He just completed his 15th season as color anal...
Mar 11, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
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Charles Ross takes the St. Landry School Board to task for its "shameful" rejection of Joseph Cassimere as permanent superintendent. In back ground is Raymond Cassimere, who abstained in the election involving his brother.
Next step in superintendent process remains undecided
Partially disguised by a fashionably trimmed mustache, Joseph Cassimere’s stiff upper lip was reflected in his remarks following the St. Landry School Board’s rejection Thursday of his yeoman work ...
Mar 10, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Warren "Boo Boo" Gautreaux
May jury selection set in Courvilles murder case
Jury selection has been scheduled in the Courville murder case. Court records indicate that jury selection in the first-degree murder case against Warren Gautreaux is scheduled for May 14 and May...
Mar 09, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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State won't seek death in Heard murder case
The state will not seek the death penalty for Robert Heard, accused of killing his wife in Eunice last September. The St. Landry Parish District Attorney’s Office advised Judge Donald Hebert and de...
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Panel suggests six SLEIDD applicant interviews
The St. Landry Economic and Industrial Development District Personnel Committee on Thursday narrowed to six the list of candidates it suggests be interviewed for the executive director’s post. The ...
Mar 07, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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3rd Circuit again denies bridge jumper's appeal of conviction, sentence
The Third Circuit Court of Appeals has again denied Mark Savoy’s conviction for kidnapped his estranged wife and children from their Eunice home. The incident happened in December 2006, culminating...
Mar 06, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Rapist's fate may hinge on Supreme Court DNA ruling
The answer to whether DNA sampling at the time of arrest is the modern version of fingerprinting or the fruit of illegal search could decide the future of an Opelousas man convicted last week of ra...
Mar 06, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
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Eunice man charged with murder of 19-month-old; has previous abuse charges
eunicetoday.com has confirmed the arrest of a Eunice man on suspicion of murder of a 19-month-old girl. The St. Landry Parish Sheriff's Department charges Robert Henry Miller, III, 34, of 567 US Hw...
Mar 03, 2013 | 2 2 comments | 45 45 recommendations | email to a friend
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Anna Lege, left, of Iota works the camera while Alexis Vidrine of Lawtell rehearses her prepared newscast script for "This Week at LSU Eunice."
Weekly newscast could lead to LSU Eunice credit course
by Todd C. Elliott todd.elliott@eunicetoday.com Paid student positions could pave the way for a whole new study program at LSUE, according to school officials. “This Week at LSU Eunice” – a locall...
Feb 28, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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