Timely hitting, superb pitching and an impenetrable defense helped the Louisiana State University Eunice Bengals storm their way to a 17-run shutout of Hinds Community College (Raymond, Miss.) to win the Region 23 Championship and a berth in the NJCAA Division II World Series. LSUE (52-4) will represent the south in the 10-team, double elimina... full story
News Notes This Week -- BBQ Pork benefit today There will be BBQ Pork dinners (with all trimmings) sale to benefit bone cancer patient Roger D. Burrow today from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m. at Joyce’s Lounge, loc...
Looking Back From files of The Eunice News: May 1950 The Chamber of Commerce launched a campaign to call a bond election for building a 36-bed hospital here. The Eunice Fireman’s Association held a banquet ...
Death penalty decision deadline given in Courvilles case 27th Dist. Judge James Doherty, Jr. has given St. Landry DA Earl Taylor until Aug. 12 to decide whether the prosecutor will seek the death penalty for Warren “Boo Boo” Gautreaux. Gautreaux was ind...
Chicot, other park pools set to open Several Louisiana State Parks will be opening their swimming pools for the summer in just a few weeks. The pools are scheduled to open Memorial Day weekend. Officials will then close the pools fo...
Evangeline school deseg case officially put closed VILLE PLATTE – It’s official, Evangeline Parish Schools are fully desegregated after nearly half a century. Nearly 48 years after the initial suit was filed, Evangeline Parish was in Federal Cour...
Three .45 caliber wounds a dead giveaway, wife charged JONESBORO – Police investigating a reported suicide discovered the victim had three wounds and charged his wife with murder. Teresa Jones reported Sunday night that her husband Alan had committed ...
Rice farmers cheer EPA fungicide approval CROWLEY – Louisiana farmers let out a collective sigh of relief as word spread recently that federal officials had approved release of a new fungicide for rice. The U.S. Environmental Protection A...
Fontenot, LaFleur shine at 1-A meet BATON ROUGE – St. Edmund seniors David Scott LaFleur and Brooke Fontenot capped off their stellar high school careers in fine fashion at the Class-1A LHSAA track meet held Thursday night at LSU’s...
Bobcats fall to Cardinals
THIBODEAUX – The E.D. White Cardinals broke open a scoreless game with a five-run third inning, then put it to rest with a 10-run fourth inning to eliminate the Eunice High Bobcats from the Class 3...
LHSAA baseball pairings Baseball pairings for the LHSAA’s playoffs for teams in Class 4A to C. Seedings in parentheses. Class 4A Bidistrict pairings (32) DeRidder at (1) St. Thomas More (17) Salmen at (16) Leesville ...
Lady Bengals advance to title game By Tom Dodge CLINTON, MISS – It took until the fifth inning in the fourth game of the tournament before a team scored a run on the top-ranked LSU Eunice defense. But it was the Lady Bengal offen...
Lady Bengals open series with shut-out wins Clinton, Miss – The top-ranked LSUE Lady Bengals opened the 2012 NJCAA Division II softball World Series with a pair of wins Thursday at Traceway Park in Clinton, Miss. LSUE opened the tournament ...
St. Landry arrests May 18 Donny Lynn Jennings, age 53, 519 Chickasaw Drive, Opelousas, La., driving while intoxicated and careless operation, arrested by Louisiana State Police. Joseph Zachary, age 33, 218 Bayou ...
Eunice Arrests May 17 Lane David, 18, 1310 College Rd.; unauthorized use of a moveable, criminal mischief. Kathleen Granger, 26, 289 Rozas Rd.; theft of goods (shoplifting). Michelle Ashworth, 23, 1340 W. Vine...
Octogenarians visit Old State Capitol Not many people can claim to have spent the night at Louisiana’s Old State Capitol, but Dr. Joan Loyd Hernandez of Eunice and Joanna Leigh Amy Pruitt of Crowley can. The pair took part in the Secre...
Business Yard of the Months chosen Andrea West of The West Law Firm, LLC, at 250 West Vine Street received the Business Yard of the Month marker given by the Eunice Bulb & Blossom Garden Club. The business features flowering beds o...
Deaths Elsewhere Advertising exec RAYNE – Services are Friday for former newspaer ad executive Johnny Meche. He died May 16 at age 72. He was advertising director for The Daily Advertiser in Lafayette for 30 ye...
Dot Lanthier Heinen EUNICE ~ Dot Lanthier Heinen died on Thursday, May 17, 2012 at her home. She was 73. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 1:00 pm on Tuesday, May 22, 2012 at the St. Thomas More Catho...
Deaths Elsewhere Blue Cross official BATON ROUGE – Services for Blue Cross executive Dorothy Crockett will be Saturday. She died May 13 at age 62. She worked almost 40 years for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisi...
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