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Duson Mardi Gras royalty announced
The organizers of the third annual Duson Mardi Gras festivities announce that Shannan Renee’ Touchet will serve as Mardi Gras Parade queen and Jason Richard will serve as king of the parade. Touch...
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Groups in Acadia among those awarded almost $3 million from new fund established to help communities affected by BP oil spill
LAFAYETTE – Community Foundation of Acadiana (CFA) in partnership with Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors (RPA) granted almost $3 million to 18 non profits throughout Acadiana to benefit communities...
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APSO makes arrest in burglary
Acadia Parish Sheriff Wayne Melancon stated that the suspect in the surveillance video is being identied as 57 year old Dennis Kurt Hanks of Rue Villian Tray, Baton Rouge. Hanks was arrested this ...
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Suspect’s identity sought
Acadia Parish Sheriff Wayne Melancon is asking for the public’s assistance in locating this individual, pictured here, who is wanted for questioning in connection with burglaries in Acadia Parish, ...
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Student accused of dealing pot on campus routed to diversion program, gets his car back
The case of a Ville Platte man accused of dealing marijuana on the Louisiana State University Eunice campus has been routed to the St. Landry District Attorney Pre-Trial Diversion Program. If Brig...
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Sheriff urges residents to register for free Nixle information system
Acadia Parish Sheriff Wayne Melancon advises that his department is now a member of Nixle, a professional-grade mass communications system that will allow the Acadia Parish Sheriff’s Office to comm...
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Wilson takes deal, gets 33 months as accessory after fact to murder, quartet's cases closed
A Crowley teenager accused of first-degree murder took the state’s offer of accessory after the fact, pleading no contest and getting 33 months at hard labor rather than risk life in prison. Ove W...
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Hospitals continue to take hits
CROWLEY – Cuts to hospitals within the LSU System are just another in a long line of cuts to those within the health care community. According to a new Moody’s Weekly Credit Outlook report, the Ji...
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Crowley man arrested for having sex with a juvenile
Earlier this month, detectives assigned to the Lake Charles field office of the Louisiana State Police Bureau of Investigations received a complaint via the Crowley Police Department of alleged ill...
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Hunting rules would allow deer hunters option of up to four antlerless in season
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BATON ROUGE – The Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission (LWFC) adopted notices of intent for the 2013-14 hunting season and the 2012-13 Wildlife Management Areas (WMA) General Rules and Regul...
Vermilion moving to pick new school super
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ABBEVILLE – Applications will be accepted Feb. 12-March 5 for superintendent of the Vermilion Parish School Board. Supt. Randy Schexnayder has announced he will retired in August of next year. The...
Landmark Monroe restaurant closing
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MONROE – A landmark Monroe restaurant - The Chateau - will close in March. The eatery has operated on Louisville Avenue for more than 45 years. Victor Cascio sold the restaurant to Monroe develo...
Sex-crime records remained closed in St. Landry
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As of this writing, no one within the judicial bureaucracy has responded to last week’s column noting that persons accused of sex crimes get special treatment in St. Landry Parish. Minutiae about ...
State will close Central Hospital, build new Pineville facility
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PINEVILLE - Department of Health and Hospitals Secretary Bruce D. Greenstein and Pineville Mayor Clarence Fields announced Wednesday a two-phased plan to vacate the current Central State Hospital ...
Maybe next time he'll use riding mower -- man says girlfriend stabbed him for taking too long doing yard work
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EUNICE – A man was allegedly stabbed by his girlfriend Friday afternoon for taking too long doing yard work. Eunice Police responded to a call at 12:36 p.m. from a woman who said her son had been...
Cecile Louise Leonards
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Rayne - Funeral services will be held at St. Joseph Catholic Church, Monday, February 6, 2012 at 10:30 A.M. for Cecile Louise Leonards, 63, who died Friday, February 3, 2012 in Lafayette General Me...
Carson Ronald Brignac, Sr.
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Funeral services will be held at St. Joseph Catholic Church, Tuesday, February 7, 2012 at 2:00 p.m. for Carson Ronald Brignac, Sr., 81, who died Friday, February 3, 2012, at his residence in Rayn...
Edna Arceneaux Stelly
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Funeral services for Edna Arceneaux Stelly, 64, of Lafayette were held on Wednesday, February 1, 2012, at 8:00 p.m. in Duhon Funeral Home Chapel, Rayne, Lance Bennett officiated. Visitation was...
Violet Mae (Guidry) Leger
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Church Point –– Funeral services were held at 1:00 p.m. Tuesday, January 31, 2012, at Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Church Point for Violet Mae Leger, 71, the former Violet Mae ...
Deaths Elsewhere
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Baptist camps manager RUSTON – Services will be Feb. 11 for retired Southern Baptist camp manager Joe Backus. He died Feb. 1 at age 82. He helped organize Acadian Baptist Center in Eunice and w...
Violet Morgan Duncan
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DICKINSON, TX. - Violet Morgan Duncan is remembered for her long and vibrant life. She expressed her creativity in many ways, but most notably through her cooking, painting, and needlework. She was...
APSO makes arrest in burglary
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Acadia Parish Sheriff Wayne Melancon stated that the suspect in the surveillance video is being identied as 57 year old Dennis Kurt Hanks of Rue Villian Tray, Baton Rouge. Hanks was arrested this ...
CPD creating alert system
by Jeannine LeJeune
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CROWLEY - The Crowley Police Department is looking to keep the public informed and they plan on using technology to help. After setting up a website with many informative features earlier this yea...
City Bar burglaries information sought
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Crime Stoppers of Acadia Parish needs your help to solve two burglaries at City Bar at 123 East 1st Street. Liquor and money was stolen during the burglaries which happened Nov. 21 and Nov. 24. "Th...
Rayne man arrested on aggravated rape charge
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A Rayne man is charged with aggravated rape. Christopher Paul Bellard, 29, is accused of raping a four year old. Bellard was arrested on an Acadia Parish Sheriff's Office warrant.
CPD drug arrests increase in recent months
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The Crowley Police Department has been hard at work removing various narcotics from the city’s streets. According to Crowley Chief of Police K.P. Gibson the number of narcotics related arrests has ...
Carencro man charged with attempted first degree murder; tried to run over officer
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RAYNE - On Sunday morning, October 30, the Rayne Police Department was involved in a pursuit that resulted in the arrest of Joshua Marshall , 32, 200 block of Vatican Road, Carencro for attempted f...
Happy Fats heard nationwide
by Jim Bradshaw
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Louisiana French music began to get a wide national audience in the 1970s after masters of the craft like Bois Sec Ardoin and Canray Fontenot, the Balfa Brothers, Nathan Abshire, and others were in...
How many 'original' colonies?
by Jim Bradshaw
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Revisionist historians have been telling us since the Revolution that American history began in the 13 "original" Atlantic colonies and that hardy, English-speaking pioneers pushing across the moun...
De Flaugeac a man for all seasons
by Jim Bradshaw
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Jean Lafitte was probably the most famous French speaker at the Battle of New Orleans, fought 197 years ago today. But there were some others — mostly former Napoleonic soldiers — who fought well a...
Olympian names in Acadiana
by Jim Bradshaw
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A boy would likely be laughed out of the first grade today -- or certainly need a nickname -- if he was named the same as his great-grandpa, but it was once the fashion for Acadian families to give...
'Little red church' has long history
by Jim Bradshaw
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The "little red church," on Hwy. 182 between Opelousas and Sunset has no pastor and no Sunday services but still has a large congregation that meets once each year. It's history dates to the year...
Gray gloves changed a custom
by Jim Bradshaw
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War leaves lasting legacies, sometimes in places and ways that we least expect. That was the story behind the headline in October 1951 about a wedding in Vermilion Parish involving a World War II v...

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How PBMs are changing pharmaceuticals
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You like going to the corner drugstore when you need to pick up a few things - aspirin, cough medicine for the kids, shampoo, household items and your prescriptions - all in one stop. You might eve...

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We endorse
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Amendment #1
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Vote for Constitutional Amendment #1 . A vote for Constitutional Amendment #1 will protect TOPS funding by redirecting annual Tobacco Settlement proceeds from the Millennium Trust to its col...

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Rural Broadband

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Rural Broadband (Good for whole state of Louisiana) We strongly support the merger between AT&T and T-Mobile because it will bring mobile broadband technology to the areas of our state that...

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Don't dilute Acadiana voice

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When push comes to shove, most politicians can’t help themselves -- they value their positions more than the citizenry’s general well being. Such is the unfolding story of congressional reappo...

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Louisiana needs to draw boundaries in an equal manner

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Gov. Bobby Jindal has invited the state’s seven congressman to devise a plan eliminating one of their seats. That’s like putting the fox in charge of the henhouse. Census figures released before C...

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Lt. Governor

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The election for Lt. Governor did not create much excitement when announced, and was not expected to generate very much interest to the electorate. This was before voters realized that t...
The toughest person I've ever interviewed
by Howell Dennis - Editor
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I remember taking a picture of Chyna Young at Crowley High School back when I was doing the Teen Scene periodical we put out about three years ago. To begin with I recalled (and not in a bad way –...
Black Farmers
by Milo A. Nickel
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From the Internet, “Pigford vs. Glickman” “In 1997, 400 African-American farmers sued the United States Department of Agriculture, alleging that they had been unfairly denied USDA loans due to ra...
Generosity took a blow in Crowley last week
by Howell Dennis
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They say you can't judge a book by it's cover. I learned a little something about that this week when I was asked to write a story about Tracy Gray, a man with a medical condition (I think it was...
Gold Medal Syrup took the prize
by Jim Bradshaw
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Alexandre Mouton, grandson of the governor and nephew of the general, made the best cane syrup in the world. At least that's what the judges at the St. Louis World's Fair said in 1903. They gave it...
Brits made sneaky survey of Cajun coast
by Jim Bradshaw
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Even though Spanish adventurers sailed through the Gulf of Mexico from Florida to Mexico beginning in the 1500s, the coastline of Louisiana was mostly uncharted until more than two centuries later,...
Health care reform winners and losers
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By Mike Reitz President and CEO, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana This year’s mid-term elections produced a new set of winners and losers, and with the dramatic shift in power that occurr...



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