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Confederate monument move awaits next site

Moving the Confederate monument on the St. Landry Parish Courthouse grounds is waiting for a site to be selected by the Sons or Daughters of the Confederacy, according to Parish President Jessie Bellard.

Graduation at LSUE

The Spring Commencement ceremony was held Friday at LSUE. The guest speaker was Andrew Ward, president and founder of Acadiana Veterans Alliance. Mary Werner, a LSU Board of Supervisor member, conferred the degrees.

Louisiana budget 2022-23: Winners and losers

The Louisiana Legislature passed its final version of the 2022-2023 state budget proposal Thursday, totaling an unprecedented $47 billion with a focus on major bridge projects, increasing salaries for lower-paid government workers and paying off s

Teta Deshotel

EUNICE–With heavy hearts and great sadness we announce the passing of Teta Deshotel, our loving and devoted mother, grandmother and friend to all whose lives she touched, on Wednesday, May 18, 2022, in the comfort of her home at the age of 69 surr

The resurgence of MeToo

Cats are said to have nine lives. Rasputin was said to have almost as many. If only the MeToo movement had the same brief lifespan.

Hollywood, like society, has trouble with the truth

We’re living in gray times, bobbing in a sea of information where there is no longer much black or white. We have access to more content than ever — plus raging uncertainty about how much is fact or fiction.