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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

Eunice Police Radio log

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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.

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Tips sought about cold case killing

Rebecca Chaisson
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

Jonathon Moore

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

Rebecca Chaisson
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)

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)

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AgCenter researchers join study of disease posing growing threat to rice

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

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Molly Rowe takes the helm at Hilliard Art Museum

Rebecca Chaisson
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.

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Crime Stopper tip in June leads to drug bust in December

Rebecca Chaisson
Monday, December 9, 2024
CA Crime Stopper tip on June 4 led to the arrest of an Opelousas man on Thursday, Sheriff Bobby Guidroz reported. The tip was about illegal drug activity in the 1300 block of Nash Drive, Opelousas.

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Lafayette men busted for conspiracy to commit armed robbery

Rebecca Chaisson
Monday, December 9, 2024
Three Lafayette men targeted for an undercover buy of four pounds of marijuana ended up being charged with criminal conspiracy to commit armed robbery. St. Landry Parish Sheriff Bobby Guidroz stated that on Wednesday, detectives initiated an undercover purchase of four pounds of marijuana.

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Do you own enough Christmas music?

Rebecca Chaisson
Monday, December 9, 2024
A large part of my collection was destroyed earlier this year, but I still have visions of the world’s largest stockpile of Christmas music dancing in my head. I cherish a handful of songs that I “must” hear each yuletide season, but my reach inevitably exceeds my grasp as I try to “have it all.

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Sign me up for cursive

Rebecca Chaisson
Monday, December 9, 2024
The death of cursive handwriting reared its ugly head during the recent presidential election. Since 2010, according to Yahoo News, many states have dropped cursive writing from their curricula as they shifted to Common Core State Standards for English.