Krotz Springs News

Plans are under way to add a new municipal boat launch for Krotz Springs next year, but citizens and fishermen have gotten an early Christmas present thanks to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

St. Landry Parish - The St. Landry Parish Sheriff's Office reported booking the following people: n David Roy Bouley, 27, 224 Alex Lormand Road, Kinder, arrest warrant for second-degree kidnapping, aggravated rape and armed robbery.

The Melville ferry has been an institution in northern St. Landry Parish for generations but its days may be numbered.

Motorists hitting Louisiana's major highways this Thanksgiving week should encounter few road closures because of construction.

St. Landry Parish - The St. Landry Parish Sheriff's office reported booking the following people: n Chris Shawn Janice, 28, 132 Bollich Road, simple possession of a Schedule I drug , possession with intent to distribute a Schedule II drug and bench warrant for failure to appear on charges of harassing telephone language.

St. Landry Parish - The St. Landry Parish Sheriff's office reported booking the following people: n Lester Richard, Jr., 43, 124 Ashton St., Port Barre, bench warrant.

For the past 50 years, the Krotz Springs Exxon, also known as Morrow's Diner and Morrow's Food Mart, has stood in the same spot on U.S. Route 190 in Krotz Springs.

Carey Cortez, 32, of Krotz Springs, the father of a 5-year-old Park Vista preschool student, was arrested Tuesday on charges of cruelty to a juvenile.

St. Landry Parish - The St. Landry Parish Sheriff's office reported booking the following people: n Keaton Tremell Darby, 24, 151 Kenneth Boagni Sr.

The first phase in the competition for St. Landry Parish's Student of the Year is complete.

The various municipalities in St. Landry Parish have announced their official trick-or-treat times.

The 64th Louisiana Yambileee Cooked Foods and Yam-I-Mal competition winners have been announced.

Krotz Springs- Today, Troopers with the Louisiana State Police, assisted by the St.

St. Landry Parish is in line to receive $12.7 million in federal hurricane recovery funds and the parish's 12 municipalities will share in $5.4 million of that total.

St. Landry Parish holds the distinction of being the only parish in the state without a library system.

Angelique Selise Devillier and Michael Christopher Stelly were united in marriage of October 17, 2009, at First Baptist Church in Opelousas, during a 2 p.m. double ring ceremony.

Police say a man walked inside the St Landry Parish Courthouse, and waited in the hallway, like dozens of people do every day.

The spirits of some of Opelousas' most prominent citizens came back to life Saturday.

Please update the Midway Water Works activities. Over two hundred people have signed up to get clean water for the area.

Sales tax collections in St. Landry Parish, which were up 40 percent two months ago, are now back to earth.