A shooting at an Opelousas motel left one woman injured and an elderly man behind bars. The St. Landry Parish Sheriff’s ...

A 79-year-old man is accused of attempted murder in connection with a shooting at an Opelousas motel, authorities said. Leo ...

Four individuals have been arrested by the Opelousas Police Department in connection with the shooting death of Justin ...

The pope’s family history of “gens de couleur libre,” or free people of color, can be traced back to Opelousas, a ...

Four people have been arrested for a shooting in Opelousas that resulted in a teen's death and police initially thought was accidentally self-inflicted. Opelousas police ...

Deputies responded to reports of a shooting at a motel, and found the victim in a mobile home. She's expected to recover, the sheriff says.

The Rev. Laurent De Prins, pastor of Epiphany Opelousas Episcopal Church, said he did not learn about the massacre in school, even though he took a Louisiana history class in college. "I even went ...

The St. Martinville NAACP hosted a candlelight vigil in memory of those lost in the Opelousas Massacre that occurred ... part of St. Landry's history, and Louisiana, and American history.

OPELOUSAS, La. (KLFY) — Three shootings in Opelousas in the last 24 hours have left two people injured and one dead. Officers with the Opelousas Police said they responded to shooting Sunday at ...

ST. LANDRY PARISH, La. (KLFY) — A vigil held in St. Landry Parish Wednesday remembered the victims of the Opelousas Massacre 154 years ago that killed nearly 300 Black people. It happened Sept.

The Opelousas massacre also set the stage for future acts of violence and intimidation. “Lynching became routinized in Louisiana, a systematic way by which whites sought to assert white ...