BIG BOOM – It got everybody’s attention along the 2000 stretch of Cypress Island Highway around 7 p.m. on Tuesday of last week (July 8).
Monday, July 7
Heather Aucoin, 37, 200 block of Evangeline St., St. Martinville; failure to appear, warrant, probation violation, St. Martinville Police Department (SMPD).
Man killed in Ledoux named
Authorities say nobody else shot in July 1 event
Ken Grissom
ken.grissom@techetoday.com
The City Council kicked off a new fiscal year July 1, and new four-year terms for its members and the mayor.
The message was one of renewal, expansion and hope for a city battered by decades of loss.
Persons with loved ones missing will be anxiously awaiting the results of testing by LSU’s famed FACES lab of possible human remains found off a lonely stretch of road near here.
Someone on foot made the gristly find around 2 p.m. Friday, July 4, in a rural area off Lelan Road south of Henderson.
A dead man was found in a vehicle seen leaving the scene of a reported shooting here shortly after 2:30 a.m. Tuesday, July 1, according to a news release by the St. Martin Sheriff’s Office.
The identity of the victim had not been determined at presstime.
A 12-year-old case is finally coming to a head after a St. Martin Parish grand jury last week indicted the state’s star witness for second degree murder in the 2002 shotgun slaying of 31-year-old Scott Latiolais.
The Louisiana Community and Technical College System Board of Supervisors is sticking with its facilities corporation recommendation to build a new campus on property just outside the city limits here.
After 28 years at the top of the contemporary jazz genre and 19 hit albums, it’s official – The Rippingtons featuring Russ Freeman have discovered the Fountain of Youth.
“The title of the album is a cool double entendre for me,” says Freeman, who launched the original lineup of the band with the ground-breaking Moonlighting in 1986.
Community Foundation of Louisiana is holding an Acadiana Mega Raffle fund-raising event which will have more than 1,000 prizes and a 1-in-30 chance of winning with the purchaser of one $100 ticket.
Charli, 9, mans the net for her "Paw Pete," Carl Peter Boggs of St. Martinville, a licensed charter captain in Grand Isle