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Bertha Domingue Royer

RAYNE - A visitation was held on Thursday, March 21, 2019, from 8:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. at the Duhon Funeral Home Chapel for Bertha Domingue Royer, 84, of Rayne. She passed away on Wednesday, March 20, 2019, at 2:57 a.m. at the Acadia General Hospital. Ms.

State’s election chief touts security

The IT program in the Secretary of State’s office is on the cutting edge of any other department in the state, and voter security in Louisiana is among the top in the country. Those two points were driven home earlier when Secretary of State R. Kyle Ardoin spoke to members of the Crowley Lions Club.

April 5 final day for Ride Acadiana bus transit

Following a seven-month pilot program, Ride Acadiana’s final day of service will be April 5. The pilot route began last August to test the feasibility of a commuter bus transit route connecting Acadia Parish and Lafayette for increased access to employment and education opportunities.

Tips sought in recent theft of tanker trailer at truck stop

The Crowley Police Department and Crime Stoppers of Acadia Parish are asking the public’s help in investigating the felony theft of a semi trailer. The theft occurred at Exit 80 Travel Plaza located at 2011 N. Cherokee Drive in Crowley on March 7.

UPDATE: Crowley police investigating shooting with injuries

The Crowley Police Dept. is investigating a shooting that resulted in injury to one victim. According to Chief Jimmy Broussard, a CPD officer on patrol happened to be in the immediate vicinity of the shooting - on W. Fifth St. - at the time it occurred, approximately 7:24 p.m.

UL Lafayette alumni remembered for wartime heroism

LAFAYETTE — Marine Col. Jefferson DeBlanc and the late Air Force Capt. Steven Bennett have much in common. Both are University of Louisiana at Lafayette alumni. Both were fighter pilots in two of the biggest conflicts in United States history.

Save pig, kill a child

Headlines printed in a Rhode Island newspaper highlights “Brown University criticized for using live pigs in medical training.

New Zealand and our social media conundrum

It isn’t Facebook’s fault that a gunman went on a murderous rampage and killed 50 people at two New Zealand mosques. Social media abets evil. It doesn’t create it. And now we wonder why the beast we’ve unleashed and fed has turned on us.

God chose her to be a beggar

Sister Margaret Mary didn’t think she was up to the job. Nine years ago, during her 40th year of religious service, she had been assigned the most difficult role of her life: full-time beggar at the Little Sisters of the Poor retirement residence in Pittsburgh.

UPDATE: Eunice shooting suspect surrenders

UPDATE: The suspect turned himself in at the St. Landry Parish Jail Thursday morning. St. Landry Crime Stoppers and Detective Shane Larson of the Eunice Police Department needs the public’s help in locating DeMondre Desmond Terry for the March 16 shooting of a Eunice man.