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Eunice Police Radio log

The following are excerpts from the Eunice Police Department radio dispatch logs. Wednesday, April 3 9:20 a.m. Lobby complaint in reference to theft. 10:06 a.m. Caller said she just seen the subject who stole her son’s electric bicycle out in the area of Smoke’s heading east on Hwy. 190.

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Belly Buddies Color Fun Run set April 13 There will be a Belly Buddies Color Fun Run in downtown Eunice from 10 a.m. until noon on April 13. All proceeds will go to Belly Buddies, a non-profit organization whose mission is to provide food to Eunice’s most vulnerable students.

3-vehicle fatal crash kills 2 in St. Landry Parish on Interstate 49

Shortly after 2:00 a.m. today, Louisiana State Police Troop I was notified of a three-vehicle fatal crash on Interstate 49, about two miles north of U.S. 167. The crash claimed the lives of 67-year-old Janie Hobbs and 34-year-old Shannon Thibodeaux, both of Lafayette.

Eunice man arrested for setting fire in Opelousas

State Fire Marshal Chief Bryan J Adams is announcing the arrest of a Eunice man for allegedly setting fire to an occupied duplex following a domestic dispute. Theobegi Levier, 30, was booked into the St.

Gulf’s next wind auction puts focus on Louisiana after Texas shuns renewables

Political winds, rather than the strength of actual air currents, are steering offshore wind energy development from Texas to Louisiana.

Education Savings Account passes in House panel despite cost concerns

Parents in Louisiana would receive from $5,000 to $15,000 in state money to send their children to private schools under a Landry administration bill that is moving through the State Legislature.

Louisiana school choice: Moment of truth

The State Legislature has quickly passed bills promoting Educational Savings Accounts (ESA’s) out of both the Senate and House Education Committees, and the ESA bills are now headed for critical floor votes — and an all-out opposition from government educational bureaucracies.

Moved by the disaster in Baltimore

I was born in Baltimore at the end of 1961. I was only in Charm City for the first months of my life, and was younger than a toddler when my mom and dad traveled back home to their native Philadelphia.

Freedom of choice in motorcycle helmet debate

One of the hot issues in the current session of the Louisiana Legislature, meeting at the state capitol in Baton Rouge, is the repeal of a law that currently mandates the wearing of a safety helmet when riding a motorcycle.

Bill expands liability for COVID-19 vaccine mandates

The Louisiana House Committee on Civil Law and Procedure advanced a bill Monday that would allow businesses and public entities that require the COVID-19 vaccine to be sued. House Bill 87, by Rep.