Sunset News

St. Landry Parish - The St. Landry Parish Sheriff's Office reported booking the following people: n Tamitha Jean Ryder, 43, 219 Ash St., Melville, five bench warrants and charged with possession of crack cocaine.

Clear Sailing, a 3-year-old racing or broodmare prospect being sold as part of the Overbrook Farm dispersal, brought the top bid during the Tuesday session of Keeneland Association Inc.

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.

About 1,000 pounds of non-perishable food had been collected by noon Tuesday at the offices of four local chiropractors.

Hope Danielle Manuel, of Opelousas, and Benjamin Gerard Leger, of Sunset, exchanged wedding vows on November 7, 2009, during a 6:30 p.m. double-ring, civil ceremony at the Wolff Banquet and Reception Hall, in Washington.

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

Hope Danielle Manuel, of Opelousas, and Benjamin Gerard Leger, of Sunset, will be united in marriage on November 7, 2009, during a 6:30 p.m. double-ring civil ceremony at Wolff Banquet and Reception Hall in Washington.

You are in the produce aisle of the supermarket fumbling for ripe peaches when a passerby stops suddenly and begins to perform a poem - you forget the fruit and listen.

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

Eunice has a new alderwoman, and all seven St. Landry Parish tax propositions passed in Saturday's elections.

The town is urging support for a one-cent sales tax increase to go into the town's general fund.

La. 93 from the Lafayette Parish line to beyond Cankton city limits is getting an upgrade this year providing two benefits for St.

St. Landry Parish - The St. Landry Parish Sheriff's office reported booking the following people: n Robert Keith Patton, 19, 401 McArthur, No.

St. Landry Parish - The St. Landry Parish Sheriff's Office reported booking the following people: n Latonia Marie Lavergne, 29, 1512 Hazel St., Opelousas, charged with second-degree murder.

Jolie LeBlanc became Mrs. Dustin Glen Poirier on Friday, September 4, 2009, at 6:30 p.m. in the garden at Magnolia Court Lafayette.

St. Landry Parish - The Opelousas Police Department booked the following people: n Herman Rosette Jr., 18, 531 Planter St., Opelousas, charged with burglary of an inhabited dwelling and felony theft.

I'm not certain how or who started this thing called vacation, but I'm convinced that the railroads were strong advocates of them.

After a 3-week delay construction has resumed on the Opelousas gateway project. Workers say they ran out of stones to complete the cemetery columns.

Jury selection is set for Oct. 6 in the trial of a Lafayette woman accused of running over and killing her 11-year-old son.

St. Landry Parish - The St. Landry Parish Sheriff's Office booked the following people: n Justin M. Aymond, 25, 7413 Eunice-Iota Highway., No.