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The following are excerpts from the Eunice Police Department radio dispatch logs. Traffic stops are not normally included.

Mass for Charlene Richard set Aug. 11
The Charlene Richard Foundation announces the date of the annual Mass marking the 63rd Anniversary of the death of Charlene Marie Richard, Servant of God.

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

Several Eunice races emerged as of noon on the first day of qualifying Wednesday.
The following are Eunice qualifiers as listed on the secretary of state’s website, geauxvote.com.
Coroner
1 to be elected
Zeb Stearns

IOTA-It is with heavy hearts that the family of Claudrey James LeJeune announces his passing on Tuesday, July 19, 2022, at Acadia General in Crowley at the age of 79. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 1 p.m.

Five people were arrested when St. Landry Parish Sheriff’s narcotics detectives interrupted a drug sale on July 14, according to a news release from Sheriff Bobby Guidroz.

I was 11 during the summer of 1973 when the Watergate hearings were televised. The memory is still very clear in my mind, and it was a watershed moment for a young girl who thought her country was perfect. It clearly wasn’t.

There is a poignant family portrait, painted in 1943 by Norman Rockwell, called “Freedom of Fear,” that shows a mother and father standing over their sleeping children.

St. Landry Crime Stoppers is asking the public’s help to locate three sex offenders.
They are:

The Louisiana Department of Health (LDH) has launched the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline — the new 3-digit number that replaces the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline to make it easier for people to receive assistance during a mental health cri