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Metal Shark delivers patrol boat to Puerto Rican police

Jeanerette-based shipbuilder Metal Shark has delivered a new 36-foot welded-aluminum patrol boat to the Policia Municipal de San Juan (San Juan Police Department), its newest customer on the island of Puerto Rico, the company said in a press release.

USDA invests $15.5M in broadband for rural La. communities

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development Louisiana State Director Roy Holleman announced Tuesday that USDA has invested $15.

A state of laziness? I don’t think so

I was hoping we weren’t going to make the list but, deep down, I knew better. The votes have been counted and yes, my adopted home of Kentucky is one of the laziest states in America. (It also happens to be the eighth most obese state in the country.

Clarity’s cost: The $5 million comma

Clarity is in short supply across America, but no longer at dairy farms in Maine. In 2014, you see, drivers for a dairy company in Portland, Maine sued their employer for overtime pay because a state law pertaining to overtime-pay exemptions failed to include the Oxford comma.

Juvenile, 14, arrested for school threats

Police here have arrested a 14-year-old in connection with threats made against the town’s schools that results in closures last week.

Eunice Chamber of Commerce Board

The Eunice Chamber of Commerce elected its new Board members. In front, from left, are John Pucheu; Brock Leger; Rick Nesbitt; Gabe Ortego, president; Drake Aguillard; Jacob Bergeron; Kevin Frank; and Jeff Willis.

School system recovering from virus attack

Two weeks after a ransomware virus brought the St. Landry Parish school system’s computers down, the computers are starting back up. School Board members learned Monday about the recovery from the paralyzing attack on the system’s computers discovered Jan. 15.

Sheriff: Criminal gangs on the rise

Teen criminal gangs are on the rise in St. Landry and neighboring parishes, Sheriff Bobby Guidroz said. Guidroz attended the St. Landry Parish School Board’s Executive Committee meeting Monday to discuss school resource officers,but turned to the gang issue. “We have gang activity,” he said.

LSUE names visiting scholar

LSU Eunice has named Dr. Marc Williams, CEO of Williams Communications, LLC, as the university’s first Distinguished Visiting Scholar this spring.

Dorothy Douget

EUNICE~It is with heavy hearts and great sadness that the family of Dorothy Fontenot Douget announces her passing on Tuesday, January 28, 2020 at Opelousas General Hospital at the age of 77. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 1:00 pm at St.