Branch News

A Eunice teenager died from wounds received in a shooting Sunday evening at the Branch/Church Point highway crossroad.

After 8 p.m. Sunday, May 19, the Acadia Parish Sheriff's Office responded to a shooting at the Chevron Station off of Church Point Highway .

Dan Brown's only U.S. appearance to promote his new novel, 'Inferno,' will be live streamed at the Algiers Branch Library on Wednesday, May 15, 2013.

FORESTival 2013, an outdoor music festival and artist display presented by A Studio In The Woods, a program of Tulane University, is Saturday, rain or shine, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at 13401 Patterson Road, Lower Coast Algiers.

Former Baldwin Alderman Tony Gibson brought several items before the board Thursday.

United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced last week that Glenn J. Soileau, 64, of Branch, La., pleaded guilty before U.S. District Magistrate Judge C. Michael Hill to illegally accessing a computer which held valuable copyright-protected oilfield intellectual property, to include diagrams, product designs, schematics and oil exploration ... (more)

"No other coast in the entire world is as busy with birds as the cost of Louisiana," said Rue McNeill, Northlake Nature Center Director.

An Acadia Parish man who admitted stealing more than 3,700 computer files containing oilfield secrets from two Broussard companies has pleaded guilty in federal court to unauthorized access to a computer.