Abbeville News

ABBEVILLE, La. - Recent heavy rain has helped push out salt water that had been creeping north from the Gulf of Mexico and threatened the salt-sensitive rice crop in southwest Louisiana, where many farmers depend on surface water from canals to irrigate their fields.

Littering is bad enough in and of itself, but for one Abbeville man Friday, that the relatively innocuous task led to drug charges and jail time.

Welsh Parks and Recreation Director and former college baseball coach Jerry Martinez has accepted a similar position with the City of Abbeville.

According to Sheriff Mike Couvillon, Chief Tony Hardy and Chief Boyd Adams the Vermilion / Municipal Narcotics Task Force recently conducted two undercover operations that netted the arrests of three people.

In this November 2004 Daily Advertiser file photo, Lafayette Democrats watch presidential election results at the Blue Moon Saloon in Lafayette.

Melodie Carbuccia and Zackery Joseph McMath will celebrate their marriage on the 17th of March at 4:30 pm during an outside ceremony at L'eglise, in Abbeville LA.

A Lafayette Parish jury has found Jamal James Carmouche guilty of manslaughter in the September 2010 shooting death of Markus Despanie.

ABBEVILLE, La. - The Vermilion Parish School Board has voted 5-3 to approve an agreement with the Vermilion Parish Police Jury for flood mitigation at Erath High School and Erath Middle School.

A Lafayette Parish jury has found Jamal James Carmouche guilty of manslaughter in the September 2010 shooting death of Markus Despanie.

Louisiana -- It's a culinary tradition for Donna Myers during this time of the year: a weekly purchase of crawfish.

On Thursday, a special grand jury in the 15th Judicial Court indicted three teenagers arrested for allegedly beating to death a Vietnamese man in Abbeville last week.

On the evening of Wednesday, January 11, 2012 the Abbeville Police Department along with the Abbeville Fire Department and Acadian Ambulance responded to an 911 call of a medical emergency at the intersection of South Lyman Street at Felicity Street in Abbeville.

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Lafayette honored 75 people at the annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.