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Eunice Farmers Market Saturday
The Eunice Farmers Market will feature the following locally grown and produced items Saturday: Steen's Syrup Popcorn Balls, tea cakes, pecan pralines, blackberries, yellow squash, quince, plum and...
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Library Control Board votes to fire Opelousas-Eunice library director
The Opelousas-Eunice Library Control Board terminated the employment of Director Walter Stubbs at its quarterly meeting Tuesday, Board member Alma Reed stated. Reed said the minutes from the previo...
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McKeiver tapped for Crowley High principal post; Church Point's DeRousselle to central office
CROWLEY – The Acadia Parish School Board on Monday night named James McKeiver interim principal of Crowley High. He has been disciplinarian at Rose Elementary. The board also named Church Point Pri...
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Office of Juvenile Justice seeking input from Acadiana communities on location of juvenile detention center
After failing to secure a suitable location in St. Landry Parish, the Office of Juvenile Justice is now asking Acadiana communities for recommendations for the location of a proposed 72-bed juveni...
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Mathematics professor Lorrie Joubert is presented the LSUE Foundation Teaching Excellence Award by Campus Credit Union Asst. Vice President of Business Development Brian Ainsworth, Campus Credit Union Business Development and Finance Education Coordinator Blaine Grimes and LSUE Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs Stephen Guempel.
Lorrie Joubert receives teaching excellence award at LSUE faculty-staff banquet
Louisiana State University Eunice held its annual Faculty and Staff Appreciation Dinner Friday, honoring retirees and others for their service to the university. Lorrie Joubert, Associate Professor...
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Civil War series - Missouri gets caught in the middle
MAY 10, 1861 – The border state of Missouri was an integral part of the violent tug-of-war over the secession issue. St. Louis, although divided on the issue of secession, had a large population...
May 08, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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From the Files - May 1944
From files of The Eunice News: May 1944 A Memorial Mass for Lt. Stephen Joseph Bollich, 24-year-old bombadier who died in the Italian campaign on March 27, was held in Mowata. He was the son of Mr...
May 07, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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St. Landry board rejects charter school proposal
A public charter school proposed for at-risk students will have to get state approval if it is to operate in Opelousas. The St. Landry Parish School Board on Thursday rejected the application of J....
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Osama bin Laden
Veterans advocate shares thoughts on Osama bin Laden's demise
September 11, 2001 marked a new chapter in American history when hijacked planes were used to attack the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon. But a page was turned Sunday when U.S. Navy...
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Basile man booked with alleged knife-point rape
BASILE – A Basile man is charged with aggravated rape and aggravated battery after allegedly raping a woman at knife point. John Blake Doucet, 23, is accused of taking his victim to a secluded area...
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Probationary fireman, from Chuch Point, pleads, sentenced on two arson counts in West Feliciana
ST. FRANCISVILLE – A Church Point man, training to be a fireman, has been sentenced to prison after pleading guilty to two counts of simple arson. According to the St. Francisville Democrat, Adam P...
May 03, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 22 22 recommendations | email to a friend
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Cody White
Arraignment set for alleged Eunice home invader
A Eunice man will be arraigned Thursday, May 5 on home invasion and other charges. He allegedly entered his ex-girlfriend’s home last July and beat her and a five-year-old child, then escaped after...
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Coach pleads not guilty to fatal accident charges
JENNINGS -- Ville Platte High School Football Coach and Athletic Director Roy Serie pleaded not guilty on Monday to two counts of vehicular homicide and one of first-degree negligent injury. Serie ...
Nov 09, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
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Ville Platte bank robber still at large
The search continues for a man who robbed a Ville Platte bank on Monday. The suspect entered Hancock Bank about 10 a.m. He did not show, produce or say he had a weapon on him. He only gave a note t...
Nov 08, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 19 19 recommendations | email to a friend
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Blue Jays at home, Eunice travels for playoffs
St. Edmund plays at home and Eunice travels in the first round of the high school football playoffs. St. Edmund, ranked 7th, hosts No. 26 Delcambre. Eunice, ranked 23rd, takes Highway 13 to No. 1...
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He heard 'go and preach gospel' and he's preached, and preached, and preached
ZACHARY - Many people know him as Mr. Stewart. Others as Mack Stewart Jr., Th.D. Plenty of folks, however, know him simply as Brother Mack, pastor of Second Baptist Church in nearby Jackson, for ne...
Nov 05, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 35 35 recommendations | email to a friend
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Area woman killed driving wrong way on interstate
Arrangements are pending for a Eunice-area woman killed driving the wrong way on Interstate 110 in Baton Rouge on Thursday night. According to police, Dana Brooke Veillon, 27, of 1955 Navy Road, dr...
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Trial date set for alleged bat bandit
A December trial date has been set for a Eunice man accused of beating another with a bat and robbing him in 2009. The suspect has been arrested four times since allegedly committing that armed rob...
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Alleged 'kidnapper-jumper' withdraws motion; trial still set this month
As the hearing began Thursday, accused kidnapper Mark Savoy withdrew his motion to quash the charges, allowing the case to move forward to jury selection and trial. Savoy is accused of kidnapping h...
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Police chief-elect Ronald Dies, right, and Detective Capt. Richard Daigle talk during Fire and Police Civil Service Board meeting. In background between them is A.J. Frank, a police chief candidate in the Oct. 2 primary who was reinstated to the department.
Police switch to captain system on hold
Ronald Dies’ election as Eunice’s new police chief has already set change in motion at the Police Department, or more precisely has stopped it. The Municipal Fire and Police Civil Service Board lea...
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Three charged with Medicaid fraud
A Eunice woman and two Basile women are charged with Medicaid fraud. Attorney General James D. “Buddy” Caldwell’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit this week arrested three individuals on charges that i...
Nov 03, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 21 21 recommendations | email to a friend
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Mayor-elect Rusty Moody was all grins when the election results are announced at the KEUN Radio station, while in the background, his wife Dolores is congratulated by KEUN’s Linda Bellow.
Moody elected mayor of Eunice; Dies wins chief's post, Miller in Ward 1
Rusty Moody can start putting his administration together after defeating incumbent Eunice Mayor Bob Morris in Tuesday’s run-off election. Moody got 69 percent of the vote. In the Oct. 2 primary, h...
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Moody
Moody wins mayor's post; Dies overtakes Fontenot for chief's seat; Miller in
Rusty Moody consolidated his first primary lead to win the Eunice mayor's seat in Tuesday's voting, while Ronald Dies came from second in the primary to win the police chief's post. Moody got 69 pe...
Nov 02, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
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Rain or shine, voting under way, politicking continues
A late-morning break Tuesday in a steady rainfall caused a surge in the number of people going to polls in Eunice. The steady rain of earlier in the day didn't put a damper on voting or on politick...
Nov 02, 2010 | 1 1 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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