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Bengals behind Person shut out PR, head back to Series to defend title
PEARLINGTON, Miss. -- The LSU Eunice baseball team is heading back to the NJCAA World Series next week in Enid, Okla. following their 5-0 victory over Pearl River Community College in the Region 23...
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From the Files ... May 1971
From files of The Eunice News May 1971 Named child rulers of the recent St. Edmund Spring Fair were Connie Fruge, daughter of Mr. and Mrs Jimmy Fruge, and Randy Ashford, son of Mr. and Mrs. Barry ...
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Bengals in regional title game after win over Pearl River
The LSU Eunice baseball team advanced to the Region 23 Tournament Championship game with a 7-3 victory over Pearl River Community College on Friday night. The Bengals (47-8) scored five runs in th...
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Ward 1 City Council member Roland Miller, left, listens as City Attorney Vernon McManus reviews police hiring authority.
Council hears renewed cop complaints, passes on hiring approval
By Todd C. Elliott todd.elliott@eunicetoday.com Summer came early as the regular Tuesday meeting of the Eunice City Council overheated amid “police issues” brought before the council and a concern...
May 16, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
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St. Edmund holds athletic banquet
By Tom Dodge tom.dodge@eunicetoday.com St. Edmund held its annual sports awards banquet Monday night at the Northwest Community Center. University of Louisiana at Lafayette head baseball coach T...
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Farmers Market back to former hours on Weds., Sat.
The Farmers Market will be open on Saturdays from 10 a.m. until and on Wednesdays from 3 p.m. until. The market on South 2nd Street is in its 13th year of operation. Among items available this week...
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Bengals, seeded third, open regional against Northwest Mississippi on Thursday
LSU Eunice's Bengals, the top-ranked NJCAA Division II baseball team in the nation and defending national champion, are seeded 3rd in the Region 23 tournament that opens Thursday in Poplarville, Mi...
May 13, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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From the Files ... May 1940
From files of The Eunice News: May 1940 The Chamber of Commerce and several civic organizations have decided to operate a free weekly farmers exchange market at Walnut and First. Farmers will be p...
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CANCELLED:ACS Relay For Life event postponed due to weather
The American Cancer Society's "Relay for Life" scheduled for tonight at 6:00 PM at the Northwest Center Pavilion on Samuel Drive in Eunice, LA has been cancelled for this evening due to poor weathe...
May 10, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Alleged teen burglar charged in multiple burglaries
The Eunice Police Department arrested a Eunice teen on Tuesday May 7, 2013 upon completion of detectives investigation into several area burglaries. Eric Soileau II , 18, of 113 Lawyer Road, was ch...
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From the Files ... May 1930
From files of The Eunice News: May 1930 The brick plant of W.C. McManus, now being operated by Fred Flanders of Lake Charles, has been put in shape and has begun again making bricks. Pilot L.A. B...
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Economic development district expects new man by mid-May
The St. Landry Economic Industrial Development District expects its new executive director to be on the job on May 20. Board members worked through details of Bill Rodier’s proposed contract at a s...
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Brown, Exec Committee agree on St. Landry superintendent contract
The Executive Committee will recommend to the St. Landry Parish School Board that Superintendent-elect Edward Brown be paid $118,000 annually. The committee and Brown reached that contractual agree...
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Eunice teen dies in shooting of trio at Branch crossroads
BRANCH – A Eunice teenager died from wounds received in a shooting Sunday evening at the Branch/Church Point highway crossroad. According to Acadia Parish Sheriff Wayne Melancon deputies responded ...
May 20, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Mary Horton on her wedding day.
Husband charged with 1962 murder of Mary Horton Vail
Fifty years after her death, authorities have charged Felix Vail, 73, with the murder of his wife Mary Horton Vail, a former Eunice High homecoming queen who has relatives still living in the Eunic...
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203 receive degrees at LSU Eunice
EUNICE - LSU Eunice awarded 203 degrees during commencement ceremonies in the LSU Eunice Health and Physical Education Building. High Honors: Graduates earning a 3.5-3.799 grade point average rec...
May 18, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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New St. Landry economic developer expects to hit ground running
By Todd C. Elliott todd.elliott@eunicetoday.com Moving St. Landry Parish forward begins with Bill Rodier moving 23 boxes of his personal belongings into his new office. “I don’t know if I’ll be ou...
May 18, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Eunice police charge 'Leday four' with alleged five finger discount at Walmart
by Todd C. Elliott todd.elliott@eunicetoday.com Four, alleged shoplifters– who are thought to be kin– were charged with taking a “five-finger discount” at the Walmart in Eunice on Thursday. Three f...
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Former neighbor recalls agony of captive Cleveland girl's disappearance, elation over rescue
By Todd C. Elliott todd.elliott@eunicetoday.com The kidnapping and rescue a decade later of Gina DeJesus hit close to home for one local resident. Dorothy Moses, 84, of Eunice, said that she was ...
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LSU Eunice student Alexander Lege, 19, of Gueydan, captures video footage with his phone of a routine traffic stop in Eunice on Thursday. He was arrested by another Eunice police officer on the scene minutes after this photo was taken. This most recent arrest of Lege marked his third arrest since December.
Lafayette DA declines charges against videotaper of cop stops
A Gueydan man who was arrested after videotaping a traffic stop in Lafayette Parish, and also arrested following similar incidents in Eunice, will not be prosecuted on the Lafayette charges. Alexan...
May 15, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
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Library manager leaving for private industry job
According to Michelle Meche, Librarian Manager at Eunice Public Library, her last day as manager is Saturday. As Meche, departs her post at the library, and another manager fills her space, she sa...
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The Rev. Clint Sensat
The Rev. Sensat appointed St. Thomas More pastor
The Rev. Clint Sensat has been appointed pastor of St. Thomas More Parish in Eunice for a six-year term beginning July 1. The appointment was announced Saturday afternoon by Bishop Michael Jarrell ...
May 13, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Lela McManus Fontenot, left, and Helen Wyble reminisce about their years at Eunice High (Class of 1934) and events in the decades since during a visit last week
At graduation seasons, members of Class of 1934 share memories
By Myra Miller myra.miller@eunicetoday.com Two surviving members of the Eunice High Class of 1934 enjoyed a recent visit, sharing many laughs, memories and stories. When they graduated from high s...
May 12, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Former teacher says evidence doesn't support charge in sexting case
By Todd C. Elliott todd.elliott@eunicetoday.com A motion filed last week by the lawyer of Jacqueline Fruge – a former Eunice High School teacher charged with prohibited sexual conduct between educ...
May 11, 2013 | 1 1 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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