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 ...

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

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

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 ...

After beating brain cancer, 6-year-old Korbin is now fighting for his life again. His stepfather, former Sulphur High coach ...

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 ...