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By the lowering truancy rate and increasing the graduation rate, St. Landry Parish School Board member Mary Ellen Donatto believes that more businesses – and more tax dollars – will come into the parish.

What does a $50,000 fireworks display look like?
Look at the sky above the Eunice Recreation Complex at 9 p.m. Saturday to find out.

Their relationship may be a 45-year-old history, but John Arabie and George White made history Tuesday morning as the first same-sex couple to be married in St. Landry Parish.

Tri-Parish unemployment rates for April remain above those of a year ago, according to not seasonally adjusted data released Tuesday by the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.
St. Landry Parish’s unemployment rate in May was 8.2 percent, up from 7.2 percent a year ago in May.

A St. Landry man is dead after his canoe capsized on a frogging trip on Bayou Marron between Mamou and Chataignier in Evangeline Parish.