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Officers with the Mamou Police Department are now armed with mace pepper guns, and following the proper training the department’s new device has already come in handy.

OPELOUSAS – Winston De Ville discovered his passion for genealogy early in life while sitting on his grandfather Seevola Johnson’s lap at his family home in Easton.

Citizens Bank will soon be known as Investar.

An LSU AgCenter workshop on the use of unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, in agriculture will be held March 16 at the State Evacuation Shelter on U.S. Highway 71 south of Alexandria.
Registration starts at 8:30 a.m., and the session will run from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m.

Mayor Quint West provided some good news at the Village of Pine Prairie’s monthly meeting held Tuesday.

The United States Department of Justice has been in town this week making their rounds visiting with the community, the Ville Platte Police Department and the Evangeline Parish Sheriff’s Office.

Roads throughout Evangeline Parish will be receiving some much-needed safety upgrades.

The Ville Platte Police Department has made three arrests in connection to a break-in over the weekend at a local storage facility.

The Mamou Police Department has zero tolerance for domestic abuse within their town limits.
They have proved that with two recent arrest their officers made of individuals committing that crime.
The first arrested recently for domestic abuse was Corwin Smith.

The Evangeline Parish Sheriff’s Office has made two arrests in connections to an attempted murder on Saturday.