After a seven-hour evacuation time, Morse- and Mermentau Cove-area residents are being allowed to return home at this time.

The Crowley Police Department is seeking the public’s assistance to locate a wanted fugitive.

A potentially explosive issue was quietly diffused during Tuesday night’s meeting of the Acadia Parish Police Jury.
A standing-room-only crowd was on hand to learn exactly what the jurors were going to do with the parish noise ordinance, which, as was pointed out during committee meetings a week earlier, failed to properly define a “recognized subdivision” due to a clerical error made when the original ordinance was amended in 2006.

When the clock struck high noon Monday, April 13, well over 4 million pairs of eyes turned collectively to Baton Rouge as the 41st Regular Session

Audry Spencer surely knew upon waking up Friday morning that it was going to be a good day.