Crowley News

GGLBC host anniversary service The Greater Golden Light Baptist Church family of Basile will host its 6th Annual Pastor & Wife Anniversary Service today at 1:30 p.m. The public is invited.

The Rotary Club of Crowley had the opportunity Tuesday to learn more about Miles Perret Cancer Services after Community Liason Lacey Shelton, who spoke at the club's weekly lunch meeting.

The Acadia Parish Animal Shelter will host its first-ever "Pet Adoption Day" this Saturday, May 26 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Come on out and meet the beautiful pets who are desperately in need of a loving home.

The Rotary Club of Crowley had the opportunity Tuesday to learn more about Miles Perret Cancer Services after Community Liason Lacey Shelton, who spoke at the club's weekly lunch meeting.

For an election that was supposed to be so important to the future of Crowley's infrastructure, only nine percent of Crowley's registered voters showed up to vote for Saturday's election.

About 600 Crowley voters on Saturday approved a 15-year sales and use tax that will not only allow officials to expand upon improvements to the city's infrastructure but it will keep the city from having to lay off any city workers who's job may have been threatened had the tax not passed.

Crowley city officials and those employed by the city are feeling much better this morning.

Not many people can claim to have spent the night at Louisiana's Old State Capitol, but Dr.

Alyson Christine Hensgens and Steven Eric Stewart were joined in Holy Matrimony on the afternoon of Saturday, May 5, 2012, at Saint Michael the Archangel Catholic Church in Crowley.

In his first career start on the road in Sun Belt Conference play, freshman Austin Robichaux fired a complete game, three-hit shutout of Middle Tennessee leading Louisiana to its first series victory since Easter weekend, snapping a string of four consecutive series losses.

The Vermilionville living history museum and Lafayette Parish Master Gardeners have launched a gardening exhibit that explores the traditional use of plants for healing in south Louisiana.

Morse native Donovan Broussard, 41, who has previously been convicted of 12 felonies, was sentenced to 12 years at hard labor without the benefit of parole for burglary and 20 years for the distribution of oxycontin and Monday in a Crowley federal courtroom.

Each year, pianist/vocalist Fabian Thibodeaux makes two trips back to the Lafayette - on Christmas and on Mother's Day.

One of the toughest jobs of Crowley's annual International Rice Festival comes at midnight when the Crowley Police Department clears the streets.. "It's tough because first of all the bars stay open until 2 a.m. and I don't want to be unfair and take a drink out of a person's hands that they bought at 11:55 p.m.," said Crowley Chief of Police K.P ... (more)

State police reports I-10 eastbound and westbound will be closed for Crews are transporting a tanker truck that overturned Tuesday morning in the median.

Moving images were met with silence as the Rotary Club of Crowley watched the result of the two-day "CHOICES: Every Choice Has A Price" program, filmed in March at Rayne High.

Louisiana State Police Troop D is currently investigating a one vehicle crash on I-10 eastbound milepost 65 that occurred shortly after 5:00 a.m. involving an 18-wheeler tanker carrying Benzene, a flammable and toxic liquid.

Tonight, Acadia Parish residents from all types of religions and denominations will gather at the International Rice Festival Building to unite for the Crowley Day of Prayer.

Alyson Christine Hensgens and Steven Eric Stewart were joined together in Holy Matrimony on Saturday, May 5, at Saint Michael the Archangel Catholic Church, in Crowley.

Polls will be open from 8 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. at the Acadia Parish Registrar's office.