Maurice News

Qualifying for the state House District 31 seat opened Monday with only one candidate signing up to replace Don Trahan, who resigned last week to take a job with the state Department of Education.

A Maurice man has been arrested on one count of forcible rape in connection with an alleged incident that happened last year.

Births September 22, 2008 The following birth announcements were made with permission of the parents: Women's & Children's Hospital A daughter, Myah Elizabeth Hebert, born June 27 to Mr.

Vermilion Parish mosquito control will be conducting aerial spraying Sept. 23 over Gueydan, Kaplan, Abbeville, Erath, Delcambre and Maurice.

The State Bond Commission approved $89 million in funding Sept. 18 for projects in southwest Louisiana, according to State Treasurer John Kennedy.

A day after Hurricane Ike flooded coastal communities, residents still reeling from Hurricane Gustav lined up at Blackham Coliseum to apply for disaster food stamps.

ABBEVILLE - For the emergency personnel weathering Gustav at the Vermilion Parish Courthouse, the morning started out with a prayer.

"My old buddy, Robert Charles Guidry, was better known as Bobby Charles, and he was more successful as a songwriter than a singer, and it's a sin 'cause he's a hell of a singer.

The Vermilion Parish Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness has established pickup points for residents without special needs.

Former sheriff's detective said that changed when he showed Robinson a photo from store's security video By Matthew Penix St.

Burrowed in The Music Shed, an inconspicuous recording studio in the Garden District, Dr.

The American Cancer Society will offer the following programs and events in August for the Acadiana area: Shooting For Hope Sporting Clay Shoot Aug.

Charges against Duane Mahne, who was arrested with the help of Opelousas Police officers in Lafayette last week, just keep coming.

Just old enough to be a wet-behind-the-ears understudy of a couple of the first four black SVD priests, John Nathan LaBauve assimilated much of their background, their spirit, their knowledge and their total ...

MAY 27, 2008 TO MAY 30, 2008 LAPLACE Cambridge Drive 1713 by Deutsche Bank Naional Trust Company, as Trustee of Argent Mortgage Securities, Inc., to Frances Williams, $123,200.00. Country Club Drive 2269 by ...

On June 28, 2008, at St. Mary Magdalen Catholic Church, Kalyn Elizabeth Guidry and Kory Joseph Akers were united in Holy Matrimony during a nuptial ceremony officiated by Father Neil McNeil.

Elizabeth Ann Maturin, of Maurice, and Andre Cole Thibodeaux, of Crowley, will exchange wedding vows July 26, 2008, at a 1 p.m. ceremony at St.

July 4th, of course, is our nation's birthday, and one of the longest running and most popular Fourth of July celebrations in Acadiana takes place each year in the Vermilion Parish town of Erath.

Police took two people into custody on Interstate 10 Wednesday around 2:15 p.m. after closing down the westbound lane of the interstate on the Gentilly side of the industrial canal bridge.

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