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St. Landry Parish Sheriff arrests

The following are arrests reported by the St. Landry Parish Sheriff’s Office. All persons are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Friday, April 4 Matthew Vaughn, III, 44, 500 block of Dodge Street, Melville.

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KEB City-wide litter clean up Saturday Keep Eunice Beautiful will have a citywide litter cleanup as part of the statewide Love the Boot Week Saturday, April 12. Volunteers can register at city hall from 8:30 a.m. until 9 a.m. to receive free supplies and a t-shirt. From 9 a.m. until 11 a.m.

Wreck claims life of Eunice pedestrian

A single-vehicle serious injury crash involving a pedestrian on U.S. 190 near Tasso Loop in St. Landry Parish ultimately claimed the life of 47-year-old Andre Phoenix of Eunice. Louisiana State Police troopers were notified of the crash after 8 p.m. Friday.

Charles K. Buller

With humble acceptance of our Lord and Saviors sovereign will, the family of Charles K. Buller announces his passing on April 4, 2024, at the age of 67, while surrounded by his beloved children.

Let your personality shine with hanging baskets

Designing a hanging basket can be as simple as choosing a single type of plant, as complex as an array of foliage, texture, and color, or anything in between. Hanging baskets add color and charm to outdoor spaces and are easy to maintain.

Azaleas, a staple of Southern gardens, named 2025 Louisiana Super Plant

Every year, LSU AgCenter horticulturists select four plants to add to the Louisiana Super Plant program. Plants don’t come by this designation easily. They must prove they can be beautiful and tough in the face of Louisiana’s challenging growing conditions.

70 years ago, science defeated polio

She came home with a high temperature, feeling very ill. The next morning, her legs gave out when she tried to get out of bed. By that evening, she was so weak she could barely move. It was 1951 when polio struck her. She was 12 years old, just starting eighth grade. The nation was in a panic.

Trump’s plan of reorganization

The U.S. has a spending problem and everyone knows it. Moody’s, the last of the three rating agencies maintaining a AAA rating on U.S. sovereign debt just issued a warning: The outlook is now negative as “Moody’s expects the country’s deficits to remain huge and expensive”.

Do you spend 138 minutes every day worrying?

Surely I’m not alone in the phenomenon of dutifully paying my credit card bill by the deadline and then, two weeks into the next billing period, abruptly freaking out with self-doubt. Did I pay it or not?

Misery, hardship, then tears of joy

Some tangled genealogy and a few narrative gaps are involved, but the true story of the Prejean sisters who were separated during the Acadian exile is every bit as tragic and compelling as Longfellow’s imaginary tale of Evangeline, and it has a happier ending.