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St. Landry Parish Sheriff arrests report

St. Landry Parish Sheriff arrests

Myra Miller

Tuesday, December 10, 2024

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. Tuesday, Dec. 10 Kendrick Demone Savoie, Jr., 23, 900 block of Highway 3043, Opelousas.

Candice Lynn Atchison

Myra Miller

Tuesday, December 10, 2024

Candice Lynn Atchison passed away on Monday, December 9, 2024 at the age of 49. No Services have been planned at this time.

Patricia “Pat” Ann Leeper Pitre

Myra Miller

Tuesday, December 10, 2024

Patricia “Pat” Ann Leeper Pitre passed away on Friday, December 6, 2024 at the age of 68. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held on Tuesday, December 10, 2024 at 1:30 p.m. at St. Anthony Catholic Church, celebrant, Fr. Hampton Davis . Burial will follow in Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Ville Platte.

Joey Vidrine

Myra Miller

Tuesday, December 10, 2024

EUNICE-It is with heavy hearts and great sadness that the family of Joey Vidrine announces his passing on Saturday, December 7, 2024, at the Savoy Medical Center in Mamou at the age of 49. A Celebration of Life will be celebrated at 1 p.m.

News notes items

News notes

Myra Miller

Tuesday, December 10, 2024

Eunice Players’ Theater membership meeting set Dec. 10 The Eunice Players’ Theater will hold their annual membership meeting at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday Dec. 10 at the theater located at 121 South Second Street in downtown Eunice. All season ticket holders are invited and encouraged to attend.

Eunice Police Radio log

Myra Miller

Monday, December 9, 2024

The following are excerpts from the Eunice Police Department radio dispatch logs. Friday, Dec. 6 12:40 a.m. Loud noise or music in the 500 block of College. 12:53 a.m. Loud music complaint in the 400 block of Brenda. 1:30 a.m. Disturbance reported in the 500 block of South 5th. 3:18 a.m.

Tips sought about cold case killing

Harlan Kirgan

Monday, December 9, 2024

Opelousas Police and Crime Stoppers needs help in solving a cold-case homicide in the city of Opelousas. In the early morning hours of Oct. 7, 2020, officers with the Opelousas Police Department were dispatched to 426 W. Landry St., in reference to gunshots in the area.

Jonathon Moore

Acadia Parish teen wanted on 8 counts of attempted first-degree murder

Harlan Kirgan

Monday, December 9, 2024

Crime Stoppers of Acadia Parish needs your help to locate a wanted fugitive. The Crowley Police Department is seeking the public’s assistance with locating Jonathon Moore. Moore, 17, is a black male, 5’, 7” in height and weighs about 135 pounds. He has black hair and brown eyes.

Felipe Dalla Lana, left, and Vinson Doyle, both of the LSU AgCenter, look at rice plants in a greenhouse while visiting the Philippines for an International Rice False Smut Consortium workshop. (Photo provided by the International Rice Research Institute)

AgCenter researchers join study of disease posing growing threat to rice

Harlan Kirgan

Monday, December 9, 2024

A disease called false smut is posing a growing threat to the global rice crop, and LSU AgCenter scientists are part of an international group working to learn more about the problem. Felipe Dalla Lana, a plant pathologist at the AgCenter H.

Molly Rowe is the new director of the Hilliard Art Museum - University of Louisiana at Lafayette. (Photo by Doug Dugas / University of Louisiana at Lafayette)

Molly Rowe takes the helm at Hilliard Art Museum

Harlan Kirgan

Monday, December 9, 2024

LAFAYETTE — Molly Rowe, a Lafayette native with two decades of experience working with arts and culture organizations around the world, has been named executive director of the Hilliard Art Museum at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.