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

Many wealthy people of color left Opelousas shortly before and immediately after the 1868 Opelousas Massacre when the ... would eventually return to Louisiana, records show, settling in the ...

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

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 ...

Leo Demouchet, Sr., 79, of Opelousas was charged with attempted second-degree murder according to the St. Landry Parish ...

Leo Demouchet, Sr., 79, of Opelousas, is charged with attempted second degree murder. St. Landry Parish Sheriff’s deputies responded to a report of a shooting at the Cardinal Inn Motel in Opelousas on ...

Opelousas Police say four people were arrested in connection with the May 24 shooting death of Justin Washington ...

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.

A 17-year-old boy was shot in the head in Opelousas, Louisiana, and is in critical condition at a regional trauma center.

The cheery mascot also obscures Massapequa’s legacy of violence against Native Americans, which includes the site of a massacre in which scores of Native men, women and children were killed by ...