The following are excerpts from the Eunice Police Department radio dispatch logs.
December 30
07:51 Bike left in the driveway at Southern Concept.
08:05 Drugs found at Champagne’s.
The following are arrests by Eunice Police.
December 30
Johnny Ervin Burton, 26, 400 block of Dupre Street, Eunice. Probation violation hold.
December 31
Robert James Miller, 47, homeless. Warrant.
Two men died on New Year’s Day when the 2001 Chevrolet Corvette they were in crashed on La. 35 south of Lawtell.
LSU Eunice recognizes 354 students who excelled in the Fall 2020 Semester with the honor of being named to the Chancellor’s List.
Ok, let’s get the obvious out of the way.
The older I get, the more I am turning into my father.
You see, the world makes less sense to me every day. My fellow man puzzles me more every day.
As the new year began a half century ago in 1951 there was a big stir in the newspapers about a woman who lived “almost in the heart of Eunice” who was “in the power of a witch doctor.”
Civil rights legislation always has its genesis in humanitarian principles: Protecting the weak, advocating for the voiceless, providing opportunities for the disenfranchised.
In case you (expletives deleted) missed the marketing campaign, on January 5 the noble public servants at Netflix will launch a six-episode series, “History of Swear Words,” hosted by actor Nicholas Cage.
Tri-Parish unemployment rates as well as the state rate remain above those of a year ago.
The state unemployment rate in November was 8.1%, up from 5% a year ago, but down from 9.2% in October.