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Two Avoyelles Parish residents died Tuesday in a crash outside of Bunkie, according to Louisiana State Police. Troopers were called to the crash site about 12:50 p.m. on Clyde Smith Road in ...
Members of Jerome Stevenson's family and others pray at a Dec. 29 news conference about the 26-year-old's death while in custody at an Avoyelles Parish jail facility. An inmate and two ...
On November 3, 2015, Jeremy Mardis, a six-year-old boy, was killed by police in Marksville, Louisiana, in a shooting that also wounded his father, Chris Few. Two Marksville law enforcement officers, Derrick Stafford and Norris Greenhouse Jr., were arrested on charges of second-degree murder and attempted second-degree murder as a result of the incident.
Avoyelles (French: Paroisse des Avoyelles) is a parish located in central eastern Louisiana on the Red River where it effectively becomes the Atchafalaya River and meets the Mississippi River. As of the 2020 census , the population was 39,693. [ 1 ]
At the meeting, they reported the allegation about the illegal land claims against their Spanish land grants in Avoyelles Parish. Daiker and Collier denied their claims based on a prior report from John Sibley that stated there were only a few Tunica and Avoyel Indians and that they were "dying out". Collier believed the tribe was extinct. [2]
Standing in front of the Avoyelles Parish Jail, an NAACP chapter president called for the resignation of Avoyelles Parish Sheriff David Dauzat. 'Justice for Jerome': Family seeks accountability in ...
Vincent Alfred Simmons is an African-American man from Mansura, a small town in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana. [4] He is the son of Alzica and James Simmons, and has several siblings, including younger sisters Della and Olivia, and brother Philip "Bear" Simmons. [2]
The Avoyelles Journal is a free independent weekly newspaper serving Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana, United States. It is published on Sundays and has circulation of around 17,000. [1] It is headquartered in Marksville, Louisiana with one branch in Bunkie, Louisiana. It began publication in 1978, founded by Randy DeCuir.