Thursday’s guilty verdict puts and end to a difficult year for Johnny Nguyen and his wife Diana Pham.
A 12-person jury took less than two hours to convict Tracey Harris of multiple crimes includi...
LeBlanc Elementary student/teacher wins essay contest Nichole Green makes no qualms about it - she loves to teach. On Friday at LeBlanc Elementary, she also learned that her passion also has meaning.
The Abbeville Meridional held a voluntary 5th gra...
Abbeville Council discusses workers’ comp, ways to limit claims The Abbeville City Council voted Tuesday at its regular meeting to renew the city’s workers’ compensation insurance through Louisiana Municipal Risk Management Agency.
The premium for the renewal i...
Guilty verdict gives closure to Abbeville family Thursday’s guilty verdict puts and end to a difficult year for Johnny Nguyen and his wife Diana Pham.
A 12-person jury took less than two hours to convict Tracey Harris of multiple crimes includi...
Five year old diagnosed with extremely rare disease KAPLAN - While most people are very familiar with Muscular Dystrophy, many of us have never heard of Infantile Neuroaxonal Dystrophy (INAD).
Mike and Leslie Lemaire, however, know first hand what ...
Abbeville man gets 15 years for selling $60 worth of cocaine An Abbeville man took a plea deal of 15 years in prison for selling $60 worth cocaine out of his house.
Assistant District Attorney Stanton Hardee, III, prosecutor for Mike Harson reports that Jo...
St. Martinville – Relying almost solely on the memories of an ordeal that occurred when the victim was only 10 years old back in 1984, St. Martin Parish Assistant District Attorney Pamela Lemoines ...
By John Maginnis
and Jeremy Alford
LaPolitics.com
The pay raise proposals winding through the Legislature for clerks of court, assessors and judges could potentially increase the salaries of sheri...
LAFAYETTE – A New Iberia woman was sentenced Monday to 26 months in federal prison and for filing false claims of more than $12 million with the IRS and receiving tax refunds she was not owed. She...
CHOPIN – Gov. Bobby Jindal and President and Chief Financial Officer Roy O. Martin, III of RoyOMartin-Martco Ltd. Partnership announced Monday that the company will invest $20 million to modernize...
ZACHARY – Three Zachary women are charged with Medicaid fraud, each accused of filing false claims.
All three were arrested May 15 by the State Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit with a...
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 ...
Five year old diagnosed with extremely rare disease KAPLAN - While most people are very familiar with Muscular Dystrophy, many of us have never heard of Infantile Neuroaxonal Dystrophy (INAD).
Mike and Leslie Lemaire, however, know first hand what ...
Abbeville man gets 15 years for selling $60 worth of cocaine An Abbeville man took a plea deal of 15 years in prison for selling $60 worth cocaine out of his house.
Assistant District Attorney Stanton Hardee, III, prosecutor for Mike Harson reports that Jo...
March 29, 1965 ~ May 20, 2013
ABBEVILLE—Memorial services will be held at 1:00 p.m. Friday, May 24, 2013 at St. Mary Magdalen Catholic Church honoring the life of Daniel Jude Broussard, 48, who di...
October 2, 1934 ~ May 21, 2013
Abbeville—Funeral services will be held Friday, May 24, 2013 at a 10:00 a.m. Mass of Christian Burial at St. Mary Magdalen Catholic Church honoring the life of Clara...
Former mayor
HENDERSON – Services will be Friday for former mayor Earl “To-Bit” Patin. He died May 21 at age 74.
He was mayor from 1996 to 22045 and was a village councilman for eight years prior ...
Mud-logging exec
LAFAYETTE – Services for mud-logging company founder William Scott will be Friday. He died May 20 at age 90.
He was a U.S. Army veteran of World War II’s European theater, recommen...
Long-time vet
METAIRIE – Services for long-time vet Dr. Thomas Melius, Jr. will be Thursday. He died May 19 at age 90.
He was a U.S. Army veteran of World War II. He was former veterinarian for Aud...
July 21, 1980 ~ May 18, 2013
ABBEVILLE—Funeral services will be held Tuesday, May 21, 2013 at 10:00 a.m. at Vincent Funeral Home - Abbeville honoring the life of George Ernest LeBlanc, 32, who di...
Chief Boyd Adams advises officers investigated the following:
April 18
Alarm on the 100 block of S. Cushing.
Loose dog on the 1200 block of W. Seventh.
Disturbance on the 400 block of W. Veterans ...
Tamiya R.
Allen
(Female)
DOB: 12/18/1989
Charge: Possession of Marijuana
Walter Jabrice
August
(Male)
DOB: 12/16/1994
Charge: Warrant Arrest
Jonathan C.
Baudoin
(Male)
DOB: 8/25/1966
Charge: Th...
Chief Boyd Adams advises officers investigated the following:
April 4
Alarm on the 100 block of S. Cushing.
Loose dog on the 100 block of N. LeMaire.
Disturbance on the 200 block of N. Frederick.
S...
Roland Bernard III
(Male)
DOB: 8/4/1992
Charge: Simple Battery
Aubrey Alan
Berryhill
(Male)
DOB: 1/13/1996
Charge: Aggravated Second Degree Battery
Elias J.
Bilski Jr.
(Male)
DOB: 1/9/1954
Charg...
Fire was a huge hazard to south Louisiana communities in the days before modern firefighting equipment and good water supplies, when wooden homes and buildings were illuminated by oil lamps and can...
It's hard to believe that today marks the tenth anniversary of the death of Mary Alice Fontenot, the newspaperwoman, teacher, and storyteller who knew and was known by practically everyone in Acad...
Cinqo de Mayo, the fifth of May, commemorates the Mexican army's defeat of French forces at the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862, It was a huge victory for the Mexicans who were outnumbered two to ...
"Pacques Pacques" means "Easter Easter" in French, but it is also the name in Louisiana of a contest that began innocently enough but that has become a major tradition in some Louisiana communities...
"Opera Houses" were scattered across south Louisiana in the late 1800s and early 1900s, a good number of them, like the Grand Opera House of the South in Crowley, on the upper floor of a mercantile...
Jean Lafitte was the most notorious — and successful — of the pirates operating from Louisiana in the early 1800s, but he wasn't the only one.
A federal grand jury in New Orleans reported in July 1...
Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 6 and a very busy ballot awaits taxpayers. With early voting underway, we remind everyone that there are nine state constitutional amendments on the ballot and one loc...
You have seen and heard the candidates running for president. After a year or more of listening to all the rhetoric it is time to make a decision. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican, you shou...
Each day, in countless methods and manner, We have the opportunities, ( hundreds of them it seems ), to witness the unabashed dissection of each of the individual candidates, attempting to be the G...
A woman I don’t know wrote the letter below to the protesters camping out in major cities. It says it all.
You won’t see it in the liberal news media that delights in giving these protesters wide...
One of the things that has struck me, when I have gone on luxury cruise ships, is that most of the passengers look like they are older than the captain -- and luxury cruise ships don't have juvenil...
Back in the 1920s, the intelligentsia on both sides of the Atlantic were loudly protesting the execution of political radicals Sacco and Vanzetti, after what they claimed was an unfair trial. Supre...
My wife and I moved to Abbeville in June of 2004, “in the course of human events.” Anyone who has lived here for the last nine years knows it has been a mixed bag, and in the hazy shape of the next...
Country living and city living, both have the same problem, but with different solutions: wildlife management. Last week I rediscovered this old problem. I’m getting close to finding a solution.
Wh...
Alcohol, the drinking kind, has only played a small role in my life. There was none in the house as I was growing up.
But alcohol has long tentacles, and while high school was mostly a sort of inno...
I don’t choose books to write about. They choose me. I choose when I do the writing, even if it’s in the middle of the night.
A colleague lent me this one: Dr. Kevin Leman’s 2009 (rev.) “The ...
Beside me as I write this is a small monthly publication from Hillsdale College, called Imprimis, published in Hillsdale, Michigan, a small city in the southern part of the state. This is the March...
Coincidences - two or more events happening around the same time - seem to bring with them a sense of purpose, that they are happening at the same time for some reason.
We wonder if there is a l...