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The Evangeline Parish Sheriff’s Office reported the following recent bookings into the parish jail. Arrested were the following persons:

The Evangeline Parish sheriff's Office K-9 Unit, on Monday, April 12, conducted a traffic stop on a vehicle on the Oberlin Rd. near LD Verette Rd.

On Sunday, April 11, at approximately 9 p.m., officers with the Turkey Creek Police

A relief fund for the victims of Saturday’s tornado near Palmetto has been set up by Hope Alliance Community Development Corporation and Community Foundation of Acadiana.

In 2017, first-term Congressman Mike Johnson arrived in Congress asking other members to sign a civility pledge.

Sheriff Charles R. Guillory, of the Evangeline Parish Sheriff's Office releases the following:

A Eunice man is facing multiple charges in two parishes including four counts of attempted second-degree murder after allegedly setting fire to a house in the Reddell area near Mamou early Friday m

Members of the Evangeline Parish School Board were able to voice their concerns over a recently proposed industrial tax program at a public hearing held Tuesday, April 13, inside the Ville Platte H

Early voting for the proposed one-cent sales tax began Saturday, April 10. Over the first three days of early voting, 198 parish residents cast their vote at the Registrar of Voter’s Office.

(Editor note: Several Ville Platte City Council members spoke out about the proposed sheriff’s one-cent sales tax and the Cabot tax exemption at the April 13 meeting.