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Ville Platte Chief Neal Lartigue searches for evidence at a crime scene where a shooting occurred on Thursday. (Gazette photo by Elizabeth West)

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Shooting suspect Tyron Jack is pictured.

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Victim Terry Serie, Jr., is pictured above.

VPPD makes one arrest in fatal shooting on Thursday

Fri, 10/05/2018 - 12:29pm

On Friday, Ville Platte Chief Neal Lartigue reported that one arrest had been made in a shooting incident that has resulted in the death of one individual.

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Fr. Mitch Guidry, pastor of Our Lady Queen of All Saints Catholic Church in Ville Platte, elevates the monstrance that contains the Blessed Sacrament during a Benediction that preceded the patronal mass of the parish Wednesday. (Gazette photo by Nicholas Jagneaux)

OLQAS holds patronal mass

Tue, 08/28/2018 - 3:17pm

In 1954, Pope Pius XII instituted the feast of The Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

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Ninety-two-year-old Ronald McCauley holds up a glass of water while sitting in his home on West Main Street in Ville Platte. He retired last month from the same Te-Mamou Water District that he helped create in the mid-1960s. He also served as the board’s secretary-treasurer for more than five decades. (Gazette photo by Tony Marks)

Flowing into service

Mon, 08/27/2018 - 12:20pm

Towering high over the area located between Ville Platte and Bayou Chicot is a water tower that serves the customers of the Te-Mamou Water System.

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