Boyd Gaming Corporation has entered into a definitive agreement to purchase Peninsula Gaming LLC for $1.45 billion, the companies announced today. Peninsula operates two casinos in Louisiana: Evangeline Downs Racetrack & Casino in Opelousas and ...

VILLE PLATTE — The Evangeline Parish Police Jury agreed Monday to move Police Jury offices from the courthouse to the parish-owned Medicaid building in order to free up space in the courthouse for the Evangeline Parish district attorney. Parish Engineer ...

The owner of Delta Downs Racetrack & Casino has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Peninsula Gaming, which owns Evangeline Downs Racetrack & Casino, for $1.45 billion. Both racetracks are located in Louisiana, and each offer ...

Sometimes, you know the moment you enter the theatre, before the show begins that this show is going to be amazing.  There are clues like a backdrop of 144 LP (long playing) records.  Yes, I actually did count them.  And then there is the buzz from the ...

The way Louie Pérez remembers it, there was nothing more all-American than growing up Mexican American in Los Angeles in the 1960s. Yes, there were serious economic and social roadblocks to Latinos joining the middle-class mainstream. But Pérez and his ...

LAFAYETTE — A federal judge on Wednesday ended the federal desegregation lawsuit against the Evangeline Parish School Board, drawing to a close years of federal oversight of the parish’s public school system. The desegregation case has spurred major ...

VILLE PLATTE – It’s official, Evangeline Parish Schools are fully desegregated after nearly half a century. Nearly 48 years after the initial suit was filed, Evangeline Parish was in Federal Court gaining unitary status Thursday, officially having ...

MOREL EVANGELINE "EVE" MOREL Age 86 of Chardon died May 15, 2012 at the Corrine Dolan Center in Munson Twp. Born Oct. 15, 1925 in Cleveland to Frank and Mary (nee:Adamic) Sercelj, she worked as a secretary at Euclid Road Machinery and Forest Park Junior High.

“Evangeline, the Queen of Make-Believe” tells the story of a dutiful daughter by day, but a Hollywood go-go dancer once the sun goes down. This new play, currently running through May 27 at Los Angeles’ Bootleg Theater, is a Louie Pérez (of Los ...

Primarily, they expose fortune hunters before young women become ensnared in their marital plots. Evangeline’s recent case becomes a bit more dangerous than usual, and her employers send her to the country to recover. However, her relaxing ...