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Rapist's fate may hinge on Supreme Court DNA ruling
The answer to whether DNA sampling at the time of arrest is the modern version of fingerprinting or the fruit of illegal search could decide the future of an Opelousas man convicted last week of ra...
Mar 06, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
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Bruce Rozas, served as Evangeline assisant DA, judge pro-tem
Mamou – Bruce Rozas, 68, died on Sunday, March 3. He was a native of Chataignier. After serving as a law clerk in the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, he and his wife Laura Dupre Rozas settled in M...
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Eunice honors city's first black police officer
By Todd C. Elliott todd.elliott@eunicetoday.com Eunice officials honored the first black police in the city’s history, with a ceremony and a commemorative plaque on Friday at City Hall. The event ...
Mar 04, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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From the Files ... March 1927
From files of The Eunice News: March 1927 The Smith-Hughes Agricultural School in Eunice ranks among the best, according to state inspector Professor P.L. Guilbeau. Students averaged 82.5 on a re...
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Lagging utility revenue puts city budget in red
The City of Eunice’s operating budget was about $215,000 in the red at the fiscal year’s halfway point. Lagging utility revenues were the major culprit. Through the six-months point, they were ab...
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Audit reflects university's shift of more costs to students
The most-recent audit report reinforces the continuing shift in costs from LSU Eunice and the state to students seeking a college education. The legislative audit filed in the public records this m...
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SLEIDD begins semi-public process for picking new director
Some pundit once summarized it this way: If you don’t want your life public don’t apply for public work. While that is an oversimplification of the push and pull between public right to know and pe...
Feb 28, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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Jeff Davis Bank CEO and President, Boyd Boudreaux, at far right, surveyed the rooftop of Eunice City Hall with Eunice Fire Department personnel and communications contractors on Friday to search for an amicable solution for their controversial 180-foot monopole tower used for the bank's network.
City, bank reach possible tower solution
by Todd C. Elliott todd.elliott@eunicetoday.com Communication prevailed at Friday’s meeting between Eunice city officials and Jeff Davis Bank officials and their contractors. Jack Burson, alderman-...
Feb 25, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
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From the Files ... 1989
From files of The Eunice News: February 1989 The Chamber of Commerce board elected Sharon Fontenot as executive vice president. She plans to keep her City Council seat until the term expires next...
Feb 24, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Jilted boyfriend allegedly tried to throw bleach in ex's face
A man who allegedly tried to throw bleach in the face of his ex-girlfriend faces several charges. Police receive a call from Terrance Jones alleging the woman stabbed him in the hand and took his c...
Feb 19, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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$1,000 restitution ordered in home invasion
A Eunice man will pay $1,000 in restitution to the victim of a home invasion he was involved with. Drakeeno Mitchell was one of three men charged with armed robbery, theft, false imprisonment, home...
Feb 18, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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From the Files ... February 1963
From files of The Eunice News: February 1963 Councilman A.R. Picou has begun an effort to find out the status of the city’s lawsuit over defective sewer line installation that is causing some new...
Feb 18, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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No fat left in St. Landry's school meals program
The St. Landry Parish School Board’s Child Nutrition Program is approaching the danger point in its dollars diet. Supervisor Lucretia Chancler is in the process of reviewing the program, and change...
Mar 27, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
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Winners named at 28th Annual Crawfish Etouffee Cook-Off
Eunice held its 28th Annual World Championship Crawfish Etouffee Cook-Off Sunday at the Northwest Pavilion. The Eunice Chamber of Commerce, in agreement with the City of Eunice and St. Landry Pari...
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Attorney General never got request for opinion in school 'sexting' case
A spokesperson says the Louisiana Attorney General’s Office has not received any request for an opinion in relation to an alleged teacher-pupil sexting incident at Eunice High School. In December a...
Mar 24, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
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Eunice Police Chief Ronald Dies
Civil Service rules tie Chief's hands on jail supervision
Police Chief Ronald Dies needs jailers, but can’t assign jailer duties on a regular basis to officers in another Civil Service classification. The chief sees a public safety issue in that, but the ...
Mar 22, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
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Auditor Steve Moosa listens to a question at Wednesday night's St. Landry Parish Council meeting.
Parish could be on hook for $800,000 federal funds payback, Community Action auditor says
Donald Robinson, Sr. robbed Peter to pay Paul and keep his Community Action Agency providing services to the poor. Now, the St. Landry Parish Council may have to pay the Piper. The council at its M...
Mar 21, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Chance Ceasar
Man whose previous weapons allegedly included iron, electric skillet, accused of using bleach in assault
This time, police allege, Chance Ceaser’s weapon of choice was bleach. The Eunice man, previously accused of hitting an ex-girlfriend with a skillet after breaking into her home and chasing her dow...
Mar 21, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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St. Landry adopts school calendar
St. Landry Parish Schools will open for classes in the 2013-2014 year on Friday, Aug. 9. The last day of classes will be Thursday, May 22, 2014. The calendar for the next school year was approved b...
Mar 20, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Re-sentencing sought in Young murders; no motions in Hundley case
Chad L. Young, serving life in prison for the murder of his parents and a brother in Eunice, is undergoing psychiatric evaluation prior to seeking to have his sentence reconsidered. Young is one of...
Mar 17, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
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Etouffee Cook-Off field growing
By Todd C. Elliott todd.elliott@eunicetoday.com All of the ingredients are simmering for the 28th annual Eunice World Championship Crawfish Etouffee Cook-Off to be held next Sunday with a special ...
Mar 15, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
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Sheriff to close on site for administrative offices
by Todd C. Elliott todd.elliott@eunicetoday.com The St. Landry Parish Sheriff’s Department seeks to centralize its office with the purchase and renovation of a new administrative building in Opelo...
Mar 14, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
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Deferred sentence, probation close home invasion case
A May 2010 home invasion case is closed with the deferred sentencing of a Eunice man. Drakeeno Mitchell’s sentenced was deferred by Judge Elllis Daigle and Mitchell was placed on three years active...
Mar 12, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
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Educator, civil rights activist George Fisher dies in head-on collision; Church Point man charged
Eunice retired educator and civil rights activist George Fisher was killed Sunday night when his vehicle was hit head-on by a pickup truck driven by an unlicensed and suspected impaired driver on L...
Mar 11, 2013 | 1 1 comments | 32 32 recommendations | email to a friend
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