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07/10/11 Saturday's opening round game of the American Legion Sub-Regional Tournament was a perfect display of perseverance.
07/08/11 Yesterday, the Vermilion Parish Municipal Narcotics Task Force, along with the Louisiana State Police Haz Mat, arrested 5 suspects after allegedly discovering them manufacturing methamphetamine.
07/06/11 AT&T* today announced new cell sites and mobile broadband capacity upgrades, including new launches of its mobile broadband network in cities and towns across Louisiana. ? In June, AT&T added new rural cell sites, increased capacity at existing cell sites and launched mobile broadband in new locations. ? Some of the communities with access to AT&T mobile broadband include: ?
06/23/11 The Legislative budget, which was balanced at nearly $25 billion for the 2011-12 fiscal year, is on the governor's desk ready to be signed and will begin on July 1.
06/22/11 The changes continue for the local Third District West American Legion baseball league.
06/21/11 The Mississippi and Atchafalaya rivers have been flooding much of southern Louisiana. For the first time in almost 40 years, authorities have had to open the Morganza Spillway to accommodate flood waters. High winds and thunderstorms are bringing more flood waters.
06/20/11 Three days of celebration in commemoration of Juneteenth wrapped up Sunday with a Gospel Jubilee in the Heymann Park Recreation Center.
06/19/11 Chantel Broussard has loved softball and baseball since she was a little girl playing T-ball at the Air Base in New Iberia.
06/16/11 On Sunday afternoon, around 70 people clustered in and around a metal building near Chatawa. Inside a fenced wooden pen within the building, two roosters went at it in a flurry of blood and feathers. People, mostly Hispanic and from out of state, swigged cold beer and exchanged money while gambling over the fights.
06/16/11 After dropping three straight games over the weekend to spoil a perfect 4-0 start, Catholic High-based Blue Stream Services needed a couple of wins Tuesday afternoon to get back on track, according to coach Tim Comeaux.
06/14/11 Posted: Tuesday, June 14, 2011 2:00 pm | Updated: 12:11 pm, Tue Jun 14, 2011. As the summer heat sets in, and the cost of fuel remains mostly over $3.50 a gallon, motorcycles have grown in popularity, and so too has the number of motorcycle fatalities.
06/09/11 Every year, it's the same thing for the Northside High Lady Vikings.
06/08/11 The Second Annual Blues Harmonica Clinic drew good attendance May 20-22. The clinic opened in Oxford Friday and continued at Foxfire Ranch south of Waterford Saturday and Sunday.
06/07/11 The suspect in a fatal Vermilion Parish crash last weekend has a lengthy criminal history that includes previous DWI charges stemming from incidents at a boat launch and an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, court records show.
06/06/11 The idea that Louisiana should assign a letter grade to each public school seemed to be a purely cosmetic change that no one had reason to get excited about. Currently, schools get a School Performance Score based on test results, the number of qualified teachers and the like, and parents are told how that number stacks up against the goals in the accountability program.
06/05/11 Raleigh Martin (BYE); Michael Bianca, Shreveport, def. Oren Gleason, Baton Rouge, 4-0, 4-2; Tripp Guglielmo, Baton Rouge, def. Andrew Otzenberger, Shreveport, 4-0, 5-4 (7-4); Eduard Staib, Baton ROuge, def. Dawson Millen, Mandeville, 4-5 (3); 4-1, 7-5; Rahul Singh, Baton Rouge, def. Clifton Kurzweg, Baton Rouge, 4-2, 0-4, 7-4; Benjamin Koch, Abbeville, def. David Weston, Baton Rouge, 4-1, 4-0 ...
06/04/11 Early this morning, Louisiana State Police Troop I investigated a two-vehicle crash on Louisiana 82 south of Abbeville that claimed the life of an Abbeville man, left a Lafayette woman in critical condition and resulted in the arrest of Gregory Menard, a 52-year-old Abbeville man.
06/03/11 ABBEVILLE, La. (AP) - The Vermilion Parish School Board has voted unanimously to suspend single-sex classes at Rene Rost Middle School next year.
06/01/11 When Gov. Bobby Jindal joined the Kennedy family in late February announcing their $10 million project to build a rice mill in their home town of Mer Rouge, it was expected construction would begin soon.
05/28/11 Free French classes are an option for elementary and middle school students in Louisiana's Acadiana region this summer. |