The following are excerpts from the Eunice Police Department radio logs.
June 21
07:03 Vehicle hit building at 151 Leon Street.
07:17 Subject at Eunice Elementary area in sedan sleeping or injured.
08:09 Theft of weed trimmer in the 500 block of Bernice.
Jeremy Alford
Over the past 24 months Louisiana Economic Development has seen 15 companies have to pay back $8.3 million in reimbursements to the state for up-front business incentives they were provided to relocate to or expand here.
Rep. Chris Broadwater, R-Hammond, successfully guided his byproduct sales tax bill through the Senate Revenue and Fiscal Committee Monday. Credit: Samuel Carter Karlin
The Louisiana State Legislature is moving to tax raw materials used for further processing, and industries are cringing at the thought. These businesses believed the Louisiana Supreme Court got them off the sales tax hook, but House Bill 27 aims to make the reprieve short-lived.
The House voted 75-25 Monday to enhance the funding the state’s flagging medical schools and hospitals at the expense of TOPS scholarships through a supplemental spending bill.
The following are excerpts from the Eunice Police Department radio logs.
The following are arrests reported by St. Landry Parish Sheriff Bobby Guidroz.
June 21
Calvin Williams Jr., 50, 500 block of Compress Drive, Opelousas. Simple battery involving domestic violence.
Despite more than $1 billion in tax increases from the Legislature this year, Louisiana colleges and universities are looking down the barrel of budget cuts for the ninth year running.
Louisiana’s construction budgetary drama reached its denouement on Father’s Day as lawmakers left family celebrations to gather Sunday night at the Statehouse in a 94-6 concurrence of Senate amendments to the $1.4 billion in state cash lines of credit for local capital projects.
The House’s last tax proposal to bring in revenue to balance the next fiscal year’s budget failed 46-55 Sunday night in spite of an emotional plea by its sponsor.
House Appropriations chairman Cameron Henry, R-Mandeville. Credit: D.B. Narveson
The House Appropriations Committee voted 18-4 along party lines to cut another $9 million from the House’s further attempt at balancing the state’s budget.
The following are arrests reported by St. Landry Parish Sheriff Bobby Guidroz.
June 20
Merrick Gautreaux, 48, 1000 block of Hwy. 360, Palmetto. Simple battery involving domestic violence.
The following are arrests by Eunice Police.
MAMOU – In an impressive showing, Mamou earned a sweep over Eunice Monday in the season opener for both teams.
Dash cam footage of the shooting of the 6-year-old in Marksville.
Karla Bellon, left, and Michelle Brown shop Saturday at Gossip Boutique during the annual Noel on The Prairie.
The 17th annual Noel on the Prairie held Saturday and Sunday in Eunice drew many pre-holiday shoppers with 32 Eunice merchants offering customers discounts and sales. Above are shoppers at Holly’s Hobbies. (Photos by Myra Miller)
Irice Ann Darbonne Lavergne passed away on Thursday November 17, 2016 at the age of 73.
Burial will be held at Mt. Calvary Cemetery in Eunice.
