An Abbeville resident is sitting in the Vermilion Parish jail after being arrested by the Abbeville Police Department and charged with one count of aggravated incest. According to Abbeville Police...
Couvillon's Career: Jim's Tree Service KAPLAN – Trees are as much of a part of Vermilion Parish’s landscape as canals, pastures and crawfish ponds. Live Oaks shade us, Crepe Myrtles provide colorful scenery, and Cypress and Pin...
Police Jury may sue City of Abbeville The Police Jury may file a lawsuit against the City of Abbeville and let a judge decide if the Police Jury has the right to call a parish-wide property tax election for flood protection even thou...
Derouen: Class Act Student of the Week This week’s Vermilion Parish’s Class Act Student of the week is VC senior Jeane Derouen. Her parents are Harvey and Antoinette Derouen. What has been the most memorable thing, thus far, that has h...
Task Force cracks down on cocaine Agents with the Vermilion / Municipal Narcotics Task force along with Abbeville Narcotics agents ended up in a short chase earlier this week after receiving information about possible illicit narc...
Alligator found in chicken yard near Meaux MEAUX – Martial d’ Augereau thought he had seen every wild animal possible living in the Meaux area for the last 15 years. There have been foxes, birds, a bobcat, possums , and snakes to ...
Abbeville man charged with aggravated incest An Abbeville resident is sitting in the Vermilion Parish jail after being arrested by the Abbeville Police Department and charged with one count of aggravated incest. According to Abbeville Police...
Erath resident killed in plane crash in Las Vegas An Erath resident, who was the pilot, was killed in a small plane crash Monday morning in Las Vegas. Douglas Touchet, 45, and three other passengers, including his wife Susan, piloted the plane t...
Cheniere au Tigre’s historian passes away A major part of Cheniere au Tigre’s history is gone. Zoe Sagrera Lynch, 92, died peacefully while being a passenger in a vehicle after returning from a doctor’s visit Thursday morning. She was bu...
CAPITOL NEWS SERVICE BATON ROUGE -- As the Jindal administration considers even more budget cuts -- as much as 35 percent -- to higher educatiion and health care many other spending programs go un...
BATON ROUGE -- Fifty-eight percent of backseat passengers over 13 years old are buckling up in accordance with a 2009 law extending Louisiana’s seat belt use requirements, according to an observati...
MOREAUVILLE. – Besides saying cheese, visitors can taste it at WesMar Farms, a self-proclaimed agricultural respite owned by West and Marguerite Devillier Constantine. “The ultimate goal is for th...
The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) Enforcement Division's Special Operations Unit in cooperation with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) federally charged 17 individu...
LSN ST. MARTINVILLE – Entries are starting to come in for the inaugural running of the Tour du Teche, including the second-place winner of last month’s 340-mile race across the state of Missouri, ...
Two Evangeline Parish residents, the father/son team of John L. Soileau and Darrel Soileau, will soon enter a new chapter in their quarter horse racing careers by competing in the All American Futu...
Doris Schexnider June 21, 1923 ~ September 3, 2010 Kaplan—Funeral services will be held Monday, September 6, 2010 at a 10 a.m. Mass of Christian Burial at Our Lady of the Most Holy Ros...
Betty Schexnayder Broussard Abbeville – A Mass of Christian Burial for Mrs. Betty J. Schexnayder Broussard, 77, will was held at 1:00 PM on Tuesday, September 7, 2010 at St. Mary Magdelan Catholic...
Raymond Lee Morgan Erath- Funeral Services for Raymond Lee Morgan, 74, will be held at 11:00AM, on Wednesday, September 8, 2010 in the David Funeral Home Chapel of Erath with Deacon Cody Mille...
Alice Cade Broussard August 11, 1923 ~ September 6, 2010 Abbeville—Funeral services will be held Thursday, September 9, 2010 at a 2:00 p.m. Mass of Christian Burial at St. Mary Magdalen ...
Nolia Viator June 29, 1917 ~ September 2, 2010 Abbeville—Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Friday, September 3, 2010 at Vincent Funeral Home - Abbeville honoring the life of Nolia ...
Joseph “Stut” Stafford Boudreaux December 18, 1937 ~ August 28, 2010 Kaplan—Funeral services will be held Saturday, September 4, 2010 at an 11 a.m. Mass of Christian Burial at St. Frances X...
September 3, 2010 E. Lafayette @ S. Miles A person told police that a man was sitting in a vehicle on the side of the road and that he possibly had stolen an air conditioner. Officers arrested th...
Miguel Gonzalez Bazan DOB: 9/29/1983 Charge: Driving while intoxicated- 1st offense No insurance No driver’s license Howard Lee Bessard DOB: 11/9/1961 Charge: Domestic abuse batte...
Barry James Guidry DOB: 2/12/1988 Charge: Resisting an officer No inspection sticker No driver’s license Jeremy Adam Varney DOB: 4/15/1981 Charge: Aggravated incest
September 1, 2010 Edwards @ Hawthorne Officers stood by while the Abbeville Fire Department put out a small fire on the side of the road. S. Young There was a prank call made to an area busi...
08/20/10 Sandy Alatorre, 34, 1716 Vets. Mem. Dr., Kaplan, was cited with general speed law. Shane Duhon, 36, 1108 N. Hebert, Kaplan, was cited with stop sign violation, suspended license, and no...
Coy James Breaux DOB: 11/21/1972 Charge: Two counts of stalking Johnny Del Carter DOB: 9/24/1957 Charge: Disturbing the peace by fighting Rashanda Renee Evans DOB...
The inscription on Nathan Abshire's accordion box read, "The Good Times are Killing Me." Eventually, they did. But not before he established himself as one of the best Cajun accordion players eve...
August 15, the Feast of the Assumption, is a special day to Acadians around the world. It’s officially been National Acadian day since the first National Convention of the Acadians declared it so i...
On August 2, 1924, during a sweltering heat wave, Father W.J. Teurlings, then the pastor of St. John's Cathedral in Lafayette, issued this statement to the Daily Advertiser: "At the Cathedral, a s...
Joseph Armand Brinkhaus died on the day I was born, March 7, 1944, in the little town of Grand Coteau. He was born there 84 years before, and left the town for any length of time only once. That wa...
Francesco Castiglia, better known as Frank Costello, was already a big-time gangster in New York City in the 1930s when Huey Long was at his peak of power. Costello was consigliore of the Luciana ...
Whether the tune is a Cajun two-step, an upbeat Zydeco song, a Swamp Pop melody, or even something with a Big Band sound, the music we make in south Louisiana is designed for dancing -- and it alwa...
Several times in my life I have found myself exploring what others left behind. It’s interesting to see what people will stack beside the street for the claw truck. Sometimes it is worthwhile to wa...
Where do writers come from? It looks as though there may be as many answers as there are writers. Hiding behind this question, there are often better ones, depending on what the questioner...
Armadillos are nocturnal, creatures of the night. If you want to see one eating your garden, you might need to sit out on your porch and wait for it, so you can discuss the matter. A .22 rifle ...
We’ve all had our heroes or someone we looked up to in life. We’ve admired their actions and felt awed by their presence. They are our leaders who we cheer for and sometimes aspire to be. By whe...
One idea is good. Two are better. Two that can play nice with each other, best. First, someone mentioned how strange it feels to be alone in a building normally populated. Now there are only...
Have you heard the old song “Sentimental Journey,” about a “sentimental journey back home”? I took one about two weeks ago, just in my mind. Somewhere there was a reference to Tarzan, and I ...
2309 Richard St, Abbeville, LA 70510
phone: (337) 892-9800
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phone: (337) 893-1646
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