Evangeline News

When Miles Luke is not biking hundreds of miles across Wisconsin or Minnesota, the 89-year-old has been trying to turn Monroe into a cyclist's paradise.

A decision by the United Way of Acadiana to no longer fund the Evangeline Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America means the group is scrambling to fill a $90,000 hole in its budget.

Writers' Guild of Acadiana monthly meeting will be held at 7 p.m. June 30 at Barnes & Noble.

The place was appropriate to the mission: Longfellow-Evangeline State Park in St.

ST. MARTINVILLE - Moss-draped live oaks at Longfellow-Evangeline State Park provided the perfect backdrop on Monday for an invitation to visit the Acadiana area.

The owner of the Evangeline Downs race track says its has agreed to buy the Amelia Belle riverboat casino near Morgan City for $106.5 million.

Evangeline Downs has announced a 10% purse increase for all overnight races. The increase is set to take effect with this Saturday's racing program.

One man was killed and another injured in a one-vehicle accident in Evangeline Parish, Authorities say 29-year-old Damon Toups was pronounced dead Sunday at the Jennings American Legion Hospital.

Ursula Kirsten Douglas, 20, 2711 Stokes St., Monroe, was charged with resisting a police officer and battery on a police officer after she was stopped at a closed road early Monday.

Members of the architecture, interior design and industrial design faculty at UL are exhibiting works from first year to our graduating seniors at two locations: the University Art Museum and the Architects and Artists Gallery .

Chelsea Guidry and Kristen Doucet, both 17, try on their graduation garb in anticipation of Iota High School's Commencement Ceremony this evening.

Reacting to opposition from business lobbyists wary of new mandates, a House Committee today opted for a scaled-back version of a proposal to require fuel stations to have power generators for emergency situations.

The Louisiana Office of Tourism says domestic travelers spent $8.7 billion in the state in 2007.

Sam Dore won the Lafayette City-Parish Council District 6 seat on Saturday. He got 978 votes.

The Louisiana Legislature got it right when in 1959 it declared Breaux Bridge La Capitale Mondiale de I - Ecrevisse .

While growing up in Acadia Parish, Zach and Jeremy Broussard didn't think much of the little houses in the Mermentau Cove cemetery.

The state park system is celebrating its 75th birthday this year, but it's park patrons who will be getting the present this week.

Stories abound about German submarines sunk off the Louisiana coast during World War II.

U.S. District Judge Tucker Melancon says Douglass is one of his heroes. "I call him Abraham Lincoln's conscience," said Melancon, who is still dealing with desegregation cases in St.

No stories tug at the heart, and at our anger, more than stories about the abuse of children.