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LAFAYETTE PARISH – At approximately 3:30 a.m. on Feb. 3, 2021, Troopers from Louisiana State Police Troop I began investigating a single-vehicle crash on LA Highway 98 near Pavie Lane in Lafayette Parish.
The crash took the life of 25-year-old Ashley Murray Menard of Church Point.

Fifty years ago, Gulf Coast Bank opened its doors for the first time in Abbeville, LA, where the Main Office still stands today.
When the Bank’s doors first opened in 1971, banking was very different. There were no computers, and all processes were manual.
The original building was a small trailer and the bank had only four employees: Lorraine LeBlanc, Richard Dubois, Ruby Bertrand, and the founder of Gulf Coast Bank, Charles A. Patout.
Charles Patout recognized the underserved market in Vermilion Parish and made it his mission to open a new bank.

ACADIA PARISH — The following drug-related arrests were recently logged by the Acadia parish Sheriff’s Narcotics Division.
• Angelle Adams, 26, Sulphur: distribution of sublinguals; possession of cocaine, possession of ecstasy; possession of marijuana.
• Dakota Broussard, 28, Rayne: possession of methamphetamine; misdemeanor possession of marijuana; possession of drug paraphernalia; possession of Legend drug.