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• Lafayette Superintendent Making Waves; Re-examines Thib Tech Play Video

  February 23, 2012 11:17 PM

  Lafayette's Thibodeaux Technical High School is under the microscope and already the new school could be seeing some changes. Even though Thibodeaux Tech is fairly new, new Superintendent Dr. Pat Cooper said it needs a second look. It's all part of his sweeping changes he's taking Lafayette Parish. ... more »

• Woman Accused of Robbing Store with Vodka Bottle

  July 24, 2011 12:48 PM

  THIBODAUX, La. (AP) - A 27-year-old woman has been accused of robbing a Thibodaux convenience store with an empty vodka bottle. Police told The Courier that a woman went up to a store clerk Friday and held the bottle under her shirt - as if it were a handgun. Investigators... more »

• More Tires Slashed at Thibodaux Police HQ

  June 4, 2011 10:48 AM

  THIBODAUX, La. (AP) - For the second time in a month, Thibodaux police are faced with the vandalism of tires on cars parked at their headquarters. In early May, vandals slashed 34 tires on 11 new Chevy Tahoes parked at the headquarters. Early Friday morning, vandals again entered the parking... more »

• SUV Vandalism Delays Replacement of Squad Cars

  May 8, 2011 11:57 PM

  THIBODAUX, La. (AP) - Two days after the Thibodaux Police Department bought 11 new SUVs, someone slashed 34 of the tires on the Chevrolet Tahoes. Chief Scott Silverii tells The Daily Comet he had planned to add the vehicles to the fleet by the middle of this week - replacing... more »

• Evangeline Parish Man's Body Found at Lake

  February 18, 2011 9:11 PM

  Tragedy in Ville Platte, as an elderly man's body is discovered Friday morning. 73-year old Elvy Thibodeaux went to Chicot Lake last night to check on some lines he set out earlier in the day. According to media reports, Thibodeaux was diabetic and family members got concerned when he didn't... more »

• LPSB Moves Forward with Plans to Renovate N.P. Moss

  January 19, 2011 11:30 PM

  Plans are getting underway for the transition of N.P. Moss Middle School to Thibodeaux Technical and Career High School. Wednesday night the Lafayette Parish School Board made a very preliminary, but important decision. The board authorized the administration to look for an architectural firm that would make changes at N.P.... more »

• Arrests Made in Unreported Burglaries

  November 16, 2010 8:46 AM

  On November 10, 2010 the Opelousas Police Department's Special Operations Division was able to identify and confirm seven unreported vehicle burglaries that had been committed throughout the city as well as the parish. Investigators researching criminal activity throughout the city on the department's recently implemented web based crime reporting service,... more »

• Former Assumption Warden's Trial Moved

  November 13, 2010 10:41 PM

  THIBODAUX, La. (AP) - Mike Brown, former assistant warden of the Assumption Parish jail, will be tried on a malfeasance charge in in St. John the Baptist Parish rather than Assumption. District Judge Guy Holdredge granted the change of venue Tuesday at the request of both prosecutors and defense lawyers,... more »

• LCG Chief Information Officer Fired

  October 6, 2010 1:19 PM

  Lafayette Consolidated Government's Chief Information Officer has been fired. Keith Thibodeaux had been employed with LCG since 2005. The technology chief made an annual salary of $87,734. He was terminated Wednesday relative to his involvement in a New Orleans court trial involving kickbacks. LCG released this statement... more »

• Musician Antoine "Tony" Thibodeaux Dies at 72

  October 1, 2010 5:09 PM

  Funeral services will be held Saturday, October 2, 2010 at a 2:00 p.m. Mass of Christian Burial in Evangeline Memorial Gardens Chapel in Carencro for Antoine "Tony" Thibodeaux, age 72, who passed away Thursday, September 30, 2010 at 1:35 a.m. at his residence in Lake Charles. Interment will be in... more »

• Man Arrested for '93 Alleged Rape, Murder and Dismemberment of a 15-Year-Old

  September 27, 2010 2:32 PM

  UPDATE- PITTSBURGH (AP) - Two men have been charged in the 1993 killing of a 15-year-old girl after the wife of one of them turned him in, according to court documents obtained by The Associated Press. Shannon Marshall told New Castle and Pennsylvania State Police that she went along when... more »

• Father Accused of Stabbing Son at Festival

  April 12, 2010 7:08 AM

  One man is hospitalized today after he was stabbed by his own father. It happened at the Crawfish Etoufee Cookoff in Ville Platte this weekend. A family member says the two got into an argument about family issues. Newman Thibodeaux allegedly stabbed Keith Thibodeaux several times... more »

• Eunice Police Department Felony Theft Charges

  January 22, 2010 10:08 AM

  Eunice Police Department has arrested 4 males for felony theft charges stemming from a two month investigation. During the months of December 2009 and January 2010, Eunice Police Dept received several reports from Wal-Mart of Eunice, of theft, in which, several items of electronic equipment and Magnalite pots where... more »

• Crime Stoppers: Thibodeaux Electric

  November 12, 2009 11:39 AM

  This week St. Landry Crime Stoppers needs your help in solving a simple burglary that happened in Lawtell, La. Sometime during the evening of November 4th or early morning of November 5, 2009, someone went to Thibodeaux Electric in Lawtell and stole several tools. The tools were in a work... more »

• DHH Confirms Three Deaths from H1N1 Flu

  October 6, 2009 11:45 AM

  The department will not release other personal details about the individuals to protect the privacy of the residents and their families. Baton Rouge: The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals today confirmed three deaths in the state from H1N1: an adult female from DHH Region I, the Greater New... more »