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From The Eunice News files

From the July 2007 files of The Eunice News. Joining a select group. New Eagle Scout Alex Morris, fourth from left, stands with others involved in the Court of Honor ceremony in Basile. From left are Loren Quebodeaux, Shelby Bellow, Dusty Dischler, Ronnie LeJeune and Eric Floyd.

Too many innocents getting the death penalty

Down in the Bayou State, there’s a clamor for more executions. Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry makes no bones about his feelings. More executions — including nitrogen gas, hangings, firing squads, electrocution and lethal injection.

Medicaid provider tax ‘scam’ with nursing homes and hospitals

The definition of a “scam” is a “confidence racket as a fraudulent means for unlawful gain money, or which may be lawful, but not praiseworthy or respectable”. Is it possible that Gov.

Wheat machine made the difference

As farmers begin harvesting this year’s rice crop, they will be using sophisticated machinery that southwest Louisiana’s first commercial farmers would never have dreamed of. At least one historian suggests that the machine that made all the difference wasn’t intended for rice at all.

Did you know? How to detect online scams

Recently the St. Landry Parish Sheriff’s Office as well as many other law enforcement agencies have been inundated with online payment scams.

UL Lafayette researchers map hot spots in Louisiana’s coastal geology

Two researchers at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette are contributors to an atlas focused on coastal Louisiana’s complicated – and at times, hazardous – relationship with geology. But don’t be fooled by the name. The Louisiana Coastal Geohazards Atlas is more than a collection of maps.

News notes

Back To School free haircuts set Aug. 5 Southern Styles & Cuts located at 554 Aymond St. in Eunice will provide free haircuts from noon until 5 p.m. Aug. 5. Free haircuts will be given to kids kindergarten through sixth-grade ages. The event is sponsored by Lights of St.

Area waterways named in fish advisories

Nine bodies of waters, including several in the Eunice area, are named in a fish consumption advisory warning. Thee most recent advisories from the departments of Health, Environmental Quality and Wildlife and Fisheries include one new warning and updates to eight previously issued warnings.

Eunice Police hold school supply drive

The Eunice Police Department is holding a school supply drive to aid teachers in the community to receive necessary items for their classrooms and alleviate their out of pocket expenses. Supply donations can be dropped at the Eunice Police Department in the front lobby.

Witnesses, information sought about homicide

Crime Stoppers of Acadia Parish needs the public’s help to solve a homicide. Crowley Police responded to a homicide in the 1800 block of JD Miller St. in Crowley at about 1:30 a.m. July 21, according to the Crime Stoppers news release.