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Eunice Police Radio log

Eunice Police Radio log

Eunice Police Radio log

Myra Miller
Friday, May 31, 2024
The following are excerpts from the Eunice Police Department radio dispatch logs. Thursday, May 30 12:22 a.m. Patroling in the area of University Place. 1:36 a.m. Caller in the 800 block of South Beulah said his daughter is starting to act out and now is throwing things around. 2:09 a.m.
While the Asian longhorned tick has yet to be sighted in Louisiana, LSU AgCenter entomologist Kristen Healy would like the public to remain vigilant in keeping an eye out for this and other species. To better understand where certain species live, Healy and her team have developed the website geaux-ticks.org, where people can send in photos or specimens of ticks they may encounter.

While the Asian longhorned tick has yet to be sighted in Louisiana, LSU AgCenter entomologist Kristen Healy would like the public to remain vigilant in keeping an eye out for this and other species. To better understand where certain species live, Healy and her team have developed the website geaux-ticks.org, where people can send in photos or specimens of ticks they may encounter.

Tick talk: AgCenter entomologist seeks input from public via new website

Rebecca Chaisson
Friday, May 31, 2024
With summer comes outdoor activities and the possibility of encountering ticks and the diseases they carry. To determine which species may be common to a particular location in Louisiana, an LSU AgCenter researcher and her team have developed an online tool to assist in locating the bloodsuckers.

Turmeric is good medicine for garden plants

Rebecca Chaisson
Friday, May 31, 2024
The same essential element of turmeric that works well as an anti-inflammatory also helps garden plants. Turmeric aids in healing stems or trunks damaged by storms or die-back disease as well as cuts from grafting. To treat a broken or cut stem, mix turmeric powder with water to make a thick paste.
Chaste trees make a great accent planting for the landscape. (Photo by Anna Ribbeck/LSU AgCenter)

Chaste trees make a great accent planting for the landscape. (Photo by Anna Ribbeck/LSU AgCenter)

Vitex is one of Louisiana’s finest blooming trees

Rebecca Chaisson
Friday, May 31, 2024
If you’ve admired the stunning display of purple flowers in the landscape in recent weeks, you’ve witnessed one of Louisiana’s finest blooming small trees or large shrubs: the vitex, also known as the chaste tree.

Ready for Pat Sajak’s final spin of the wheel?

Rebecca Chaisson
Friday, May 31, 2024
June 7 will be a bittersweet day in TV history, as the final “Wheel of Fortune” hosted by Pat Sajak airs. Sajak announced his retirement plans a year ago, allowing himself time for a VICT_RY LAP, naming of a successor and cleaning all the spare bullion out of the sofa in the dressing room.

Memories of my free-range childhood

Rebecca Chaisson
Friday, May 31, 2024
It was the first time in my childhood I had an excuse for coming home late for dinner, but nobody — not even the cops — would listen. In the summer of 1972, when I was 10, Tommy Gillen and I built a dam in the creek on the other side of the Horning Road railroad tunnel.

Last Island was favored resort, until the storm

Rebecca Chaisson
Friday, May 31, 2024
Isle Dernière, the barrier reef more commonly called Last Island, is best known for the deadly storm that struck there in August 1856. But three years before that infamous storm the Houma Ceres, called it “the greatest place in the world to ride, swim, drink, dance, and talk love to the ladies.

Lafayette man arrested for possession of child porn, sexual abuse of an animal

Rebecca Chaisson
Friday, May 31, 2024
Attorney General Liz Murrill’s Cyber Crime Unit arrested a Lafayette man for multiple sex-crime related charges on May 28. Shannon Paul Bellard, 54, of Robley Drive in Lafayette, was arrested in Opelousas for violating: — 8 counts of pornography involving juveniles under the age of 13 (Felony) – St.

St. Landry Parish civil cases

Rebecca Chaisson
Friday, May 31, 2024
The following are civil cases filed in the 27th Judicial District Court, Opelousas. Wednesday, May 22 Capital One vs Monica R. Mayberry, open account. Scott Christopher Mouret Jr vs Deborah Emiah Arredondo, divorce. Randall Pijue vs Whitney Undriel Andrus, divorce.

St. Landry Parish marriage licenses

Rebecca Chaisson
Friday, May 31, 2024
The following people obtained marriage license from the St. Landry Parish Clerk of Court Office, Opelousas. Wednesday, May 22 Heather Nicole Dupree of Eunice and Rick Jeret Brown of Eunice. Thursday, May 23 Terrance Joseph Broussard of Mamou and Kathryn Faye Foret of Mamou.