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LSU Eunice was selected as an experimental site for the U.S.

The St. Landry Parish Council is to meet at 6 p.m. Wednesday at the Old City Market, 131 W. Bellevue St., Opelousas. The meeting agenda is attached as a pdf.

The House voted 80-14 Friday to reprioritize more than a billion dollars in capital outlay projects after a presentation by Ways and Means Committee Chairman Neil Abramson, D-New Orleans, showed the state does not have anywhere near the money to handle the projects on its current plate.

Following a move to transfer funding from the state’s TOPS college scholarship program to safety-net hospitals last Thursday, the LSU Medical School at Shreveport still will be $35.6 million in the red, the chancellor warned Sunday, forcing the school to make cuts to all the medical programs.

May public prayer at St. Anthony’s
During the month of May a rosary and Divine Mercy chaplet will be prayed daily at 5:30 p.m. at the shrine of the Blessed Mother in front of Saint Anthony’s rectory.
The public is encouraged to participate.