Basile News

St. Landry Parish - The St. Landry Parish Sheriff's office reported booking the following people: n Otis R. Malveaux, 25, 130 Gaspard St., Eunice, bench warrant for failure to appear.

Two men were arrested and two more were being sought in connection with the thefts of more than a dozen off-road vehicles in Acadia and Jeff Davis parishes.

To one side of the lobby at the Monroe Regional Airport, passengers weighed down by carry-on bags wore blank expressions and glanced at watches as they stood in the security line.

A panel of three administrative judges dismissed ethics charges against Lafourche Sheriff Craig Webre, ruling he did not use his office to make money selling devices designed to keep drunken drivers off the road.

Your health care provider can be one of your biggest allies on the road to recovery, so having a good relationship with your physician is a major "plus" for your health.

A vocal victims' advocate for the Jeff Davis Parish Eight - a group of local women whose drug-related killings remain unsolved after four years - found himself behind bars here this past weekend on drug charges.

The PR people at the University of St Thomas in Houston just sent me this announcement: Dr.

A Eunice area couple, involved in the swap of an exotic bird for two children earlier this year, agreed to plead guilty Wednesday afternoon, the day before they were set to go to trial on charges involving the sale of minor children.

Al-Qaida-linked militants ambushed a convoy of Marines returning to base Monday after raising the Philippine flag on a rebel camp they overran, killing eight troops and wounding nine others, officials said.

CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy, SEPT. 17, 2009 .- Benedict XVI spent a leisurely hour with the Jesuit scientists who staff the Vatican Observatory, giving his papal blessing to their new headquarters, which the director says symbolize the observatory's mission.

BATON ROUGE - Conflict-of-interest charges were dismissed on Friday against Rep.

St. Landry Parish - The St. Landry Parish Sheriff's Office reported booking the following people: n Paul Collins Jr., 22, 1215 Montreal St., Opelousas, arrested on bench warrants.

In response to a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union , the U.S. Department of Homeland Security revealed Tuesday that the government had failed to disclose 11 more deaths in immigration detention facilities.

Some 100 immigrant detainees at a private prison in Louisiana, angered by what they say are awful conditions, are engaged in increasingly tense protests.

ICE detainees in the privately-owned South Louisiana Corrections Facility in Basile, Louisiana are on their fifth hunger strike in four weeks to protest inhumane conditions that violate human rights and ICE standards for detention.

A group of detainees at a Louisiana immigration detention center have begun three-day hunger strikes to protest poor conditions there, immigrant advocates said.

St. Landry Parish - The St. Landry Parish Sheriff's office booked the following people: n Joseph Earl Comeaux Jr., 25, 841 Boxie Road, charged with unauthorized use of a moveable.

Gov. Bobby Jindal presented nine grants totaling $3,331,531 to Evangeline Parish officials Friday during a scheduled stop on his Working Tour of Louisiana.

Security officials in the Philippines say suspected al-Qaida-linked militants have killed seven policemen in an ambush.

Police believe the arrest of two men Monday may have cleared a number of vehicle burglaries that have been occurring at local health and wellness centers in Opelousas.