On Friday, February 25, shortly before lunch time, shots rang out on S. Washington Street near West Lafayette Street in Abbeville as people in two vehicles began shooting at each other. Several spent casings were recovered in the area.
Shon Jolivette of Opelousas thought he could seek shelter in the Walmart Distribution Center after he and another possible suspect allegedly committed an armed robbery at a local business.
Cindy Walters refused to believe her daughter, Bethany, died of suicide or of an accident and that resulted in the Negligent Homicide guilty plea of live-in boyfriend Michael Guillory.
A third subject - 21-year-old Antonio McClelland - has been arrested and booked into the Lafayette Parish Correctional Center for one count of principal to aggravated burglary and one count of conspiracy to commit armed robbery.
A school shooter at Oxford High School near Detroit tried to lure fellow students out of the classroom while pretending to be a law enforcement official.
Inmate 24-year-old Gilbert A. Lee escaped on Wednesday from a work crew that was assigned to the Opelousas Police Department and St. Landry Parish law enforcement needs you to be on the lookout for him.
A boat captain working out of Abbeville has been found guilty on child porn charges after the young victim's mother told Mobile Police that he had been sexually abusing her daughter.
21-year-old Kenneth Andrus of Breaux Bridge faces several felony charges after he was caught with a golf cart that was reported stolen from a local business.