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Bryant Riggs is sick and tired of hearing residents claiming that they don’t come forward about unethical policing due to the fear of retaliation.

Although Judge Gary Ortego delivered a ruling in Randel Brown’s suit against East Side Water System, Inc. last July, both the plantiff and defendants in this matter once again appeared in court on Thursday for a Rule to Show Cause hearing.

The lights at the public tennis courts in the Village of Pine Prairie were a topic of discussion at Tuesday’s monthly council meeting.

Sarah Anna Doucet Thomas just wants her late husband’s body to be at rest.

On behalf of his clients Shawanna Deville, Liljohn O’Neal and Shaquille Freeman, attorney Jacob Fusilier filed a Class Action suit on Monday against the City of Ville Platte and the Ville Platte Police Department for performing illegal investigative holds.

A town hall meeting that was supposed to help heal the community has already caused some disruption, only days before the actual meeting is to take place.

Even though the issue with St. Matthew Cemetery may have dominated Monday night’s Evangeline Parish Police Jury meeting, it wasn’t the only business that the Jury addressed.

The Mamou Police Department is requesting assistance from the public to help locate Solomon Guillory.
Guillory became wanted by the MPD on January 2, 2017 after he led officers on a high speed chase at around 1:00 a.m. in the morning.

The Evangeline Parish Sheriff’s Office reported 24 recent bookings into the parish jail. Arrested were the following persons:

On Tuesday, February 7, 2017, Evangeline Parish District Attorney Trent Bignac released a statement regarding a news brief that ran in Sunday's edition of the Ville Platte Gazette.