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The delightful tinkling music of a neighborhood ice cream truck usually brings delightfuls miles, smacking lips, and great joy to young and old alike. On March 20, the tune and taste turned sour as Basile Police arrested Kirk James Robinson, 48, of Arnaudville, the owner and operator of a ice cream van that has been driven up and down the streets of Basile and other communities for the past several years.

State Police Special Victims Unit detectives received information on April 16 indicating that 37-year-old Julian ‘Trey’ M. Aucoin III of Rayne communicated with a juvenile in a sexually explicit manner, according to a news release from Louisiana State Police.

CROWLEY — Fifty-six felony investigations. Sixty-nine arrests.

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

The following are excerpts from the Eunice Police Department radio dispatch logs. April 20 08:12 911 hang up call from Day’s Inn.

The following are arrests by Eunice Police. April 20 Jamalco Jewel Winbush, 25, 1300 block of West Willow, Lafayette.

OPELOUSAS — Reapportionment for St. Landry Parish’s Parish Council and School Board districts remains months away because of a delay in census numbers.

BATON ROUGE — A resolution calling on LSU to add the COVID-19 vaccine to its list of mandatory immunizations for students returning to campus this fall passed the LSU Faculty Senate 52-1 Thursday. Inessa Bazayev, one of the professors who proposed the resolution, said 140 LSU faculty members had signed on to it out of concern about the potential health risks for them and their students.

You don’t need a large yard or a lot of space to create a beautiful garden. You can create beautiful planters or containers that fit any space with limitless plant combinations that bring beauty and joy to wherever you call home.

The Tri-Parish workforce has lost 2,455 people from a year ago, according to statistic released Friday by the the Louisiana Workforce Commission. The workforce includes people working and those looking for a job.