By Jim Bradshaw
Until the late 1930s, when the Great Depression and Huey Long’s road-paving program did away with them, little trains scooted all across south Louisiana carrying both passengers and freight.
Cliff Lemoine, a native of Eunice, received the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal for assisting a fellow pilot after an in-flight lightning strike last summer. Lemoine is a 2001 graduate of St. Edmund, and he is the son of the late Clifton Lemoine and late Linda Lemoine. (Submitted Photo)
Getting struck by lightning is never good, but it’s even scarier 23,000 feet in the air.
Rev. Billy Turner
By Billy Turner
I am pouring through Adam Hamilton’s latest book, “The Call,” and through 58 pages about the life of Paul, my hero in the Bible other than Jesus, and I was struck by one thing new or at least long forgotten.
Bossier District 1 Capt. Lee Hedgepeth sets a couch on fire Thursday in a training trailer at Louisiana State University Eunice during a training session, Evidence Based Scientifically Proven Fire Attack. The training was the last day of a three-day conference at LSUE. The Louisiana Company Officer Leadership Conference was held for the second time at LSU Eunice. The event is sponsored by LSU Eunice, Professional Fire Fighters Association of Louisiana and LSU Carrol L. Herring Fire & Emergency Training Institute. Hedgepeth is an adjunct instructor at the Institute. (Photo by Harlan Kirgan)
About 100 Louisiana firefighters spent three days at LSU Eunice learning skills from leadership to a fire fighting tactic that one of the state’s top trainers calls controversial.
Mayci Breaux
(Photo courtesy of the Franklin Banner-Tribune)
First year LSU Eunice student Mayci Breaux of Franklin was one of two women killed during a shooting at a Lafayette movie theater Thursday.
Nine others were injured during the incident.
