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St. Landry Parish Sheriff arrests report

St. Landry Parish Sheriff arrests report

St. Landry Parish Sheriff arrests

Myra Miller
Thursday, April 20, 2023
The following are arrests reported by the St. Landry Parish Sheriff’s Office. April 20 Devin A. Daugherty, 35, 400 block of Perrotti Street, Eunice.
Eunice Police Radio log

Eunice Police Radio log

Eunice Police Radio log

Myra Miller
Thursday, April 20, 2023
The following are excerpts from the Eunice Police Department radio dispatch logs. April 19 01:04 Subject in the 200 block of South Cane said his nephew broke his window. 06:37 Caller in the 100 block of Corrine said that her child is trying to get to the bus stop and there is a big loose dog.
News notes items

News notes items

News notes

Myra Miller
Thursday, April 20, 2023
City-wide Cleanup slated April 22 The week of April 15 to 22 is Love the Boot Week in the state. Keep Eunice Beautiful received a state cleanup supply grant from Keep Louisiana Beautiful of shirts, trash bags, grabbers and gloves.

Bill would create Acadiana Watershed District

Rebecca Chaisson
Wednesday, April 19, 2023
There is the saying, “Bigger is better.” Rep. Ryan Bourriaque is a firm believer in that saying. One of the eight bills Bourriaque, R-Abbeville, is trying to get approved by the legislature is House Bill 425. If approved by the House and Senate and signed by Gov.

Built environment is strongest predictor of adolescent obesity

Rebecca Chaisson
Wednesday, April 19, 2023
New research shows that the built environment, not social and economic environments, is a strong predictor of adolescents’ body mass index, or BMI, overweight and obesity status, and eating behaviors, according to a new study in Obesity, The Obesity Society’s flagship journal.

Remembering growing up female

Rebecca Chaisson
Wednesday, April 19, 2023
I just saw the trailer for a movie that made me actually tear up. The preview of “Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret” propelled me backward in time, over 50 years, to a moment when I was in the sixth grade and sitting in a corner, falling in love with a book of the same title that changed my life.

Richard Ieyoub was a class public official

Rebecca Chaisson
Wednesday, April 19, 2023
Former three-term Attorney General Richard Ieyoub passed away last week at the age of 78. He was currently serving as Louisiana’s commissioner of conservation, overseeing the regulation of all oil and gas activities in the state.
NASA has selected UL Lafayette’s CAPE satellite team for a return trip to space. Student researchers will design and build a larger, more sophisticated version of past satellites. The new model (inset) will be launched into space at an as-yet-undetermined date to gather data about radiation levels. (Photo from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette)

NASA has selected UL Lafayette’s CAPE satellite team for a return trip to space. Student researchers will design and build a larger, more sophisticated version of past satellites. The new model (inset) will be launched into space at an as-yet-undetermined date to gather data about radiation levels. (Photo from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette)

NASA taps UL Lafayette’s CAPE satellite student team for return to space

Rebecca Chaisson
Wednesday, April 19, 2023
A small solar-powered satellite designed and built by University of Louisiana at Lafayette student researchers will measure radiation levels in space to help keep astronauts – and the public – safe.