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The University of Louisiana at Lafayette’s College of Education & Human Development received high marks for preparing prospective elementary school teachers to teach reading.

St. Landry Parish President Jessie Bellard said he signed parish government’s 2023 budget Thursday afternoon.
It has taken about six months for that to happen.

Robert Miller III’s appeal of his manslaughter conviction and 5-year sentence for the killing an 18-month-old toddler has been rejected by the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeal.

The circumstances are unusual, but leaders of the Opelousas Life Church made their case for a liquor license to be restored for a restaurant/bar they operate at the former Indian Hills Country Club.

EUNICE–It is with heavy hearts the family of Woodrow “Ted” Theodore Salling announces his passing on Thursday, June 22, 2023, at the Opelousas General Hospital at the age 82 with family by his side.

The following are arrests by Eunice Police.
June 21
Brandon Scott Stelly, 41, 300 block of Heard Sylvester Road, Washington. Theft, value less than $1,000.

The following are excerpts from the Eunice Police Department radio dispatch logs.

The following are arrests reported by the St. Landry Parish Sheriff’s Office.

They still happen occasionally, but gas well fires are not nearly as common as they were in earlier days in the oil field, and, it seems, not nearly so spectacular.