Opelousas News

Work on Opelousas' Orphan Train Museum, set to formally open in October, is moving full steam ahead - so well that the museum may be able to hold a soft opening in the near future.

Eddie Smith, who escaped from the Opelousas City Jail earlier this week, was captured Thursday in Texas.

Opelousas Police are looking for Eddie Smith. Smith escaped police custody on Tuesday, June 30th during the time inmates were being allowed phone privileges.

It took about a week to move five blocks, but what the city is calling the Jarrell House is now a part of Le Vieux Village.

They're as American as ... well, hot dogs and apple pie. And on the day Americans celebrate their independence, they will consume enough hot dogs to stretch from the nation's capital to the beaches of the Pacific Ocean, back and forth, more than five times.

A weekend Occupant Protection Checkpoint resulted in more tickets for expired vehicle inspection stickers than for either failure to use seat belts or child restraints, which St.

The final bell of the official school year may have rung last month, but for a couple of hundred local students, school is still in session at the Magnet Academy for the Cultural Arts.

Work on Opelousas' Orphan Train Museum, set to formally open in October, is moving head so well the museum may be able to hold a soft opening in the near future.

Opelousas Catholic School is in the process of making a school uniform change for the students.

It was standing-room-only Thursday for the first of what the city promises will be a series of public meetings to debate who will provide power to the city for the next decade.

About a dozen candidates have previously expressed an interest in the open District 40 state House of Representatives seat and five of them made it official Wednesday during the first day of qualifying.

OPELOUSAS -Radio station KSLO 1230 AM has been off the air for a week, prompting speculation among listeners that the long-standing fixture of the Opelousas airwaves has gone silent forever.

OPELOUSAS - Arthur Lee Henry, a custodian at T.H. Harris Technical College in Opelousas, will be honored as one of three of the state's 'Citizen Heroes' Thursday at a banquet in Metairie.

The owner of the Evangeline Downs race track says its has agreed to buy the Amelia Belle riverboat casino near Morgan City for $106.5 million.

After years of delay, work on a third park for Opelousas may finally see the light of day.

OPELOUSAS - An investigation into an accusation of rape leveled against a retired Opelousas Police Department officer has been handed over to the Louisiana State Police, said Capt.

Police believe the arrest of two men Monday may have cleared a number of vehicle burglaries that have been occurring at local health and wellness centers in Opelousas.

St. Landry Parish is home to 10 Head Start centers that serve the needs of more than 900 children and, thanks to federal stimulus funds, the lives of all these children should soon improve.

Rachel Katy Gates and Kenneth Paul Hebert were united in marriage in a double ring ceremony on June 20, 2009, at 6:30 p.m., at the Chapel at the Academy of the Sacred Heart @ Grand Coteau.

The Opelousas Police Department has purchased a new mobile command center, two new K-9 Unit vehicles and a 4-by-4 truck - all financed by money confiscated from drug dealers.