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- Mathews says she has to fill 'some big shoes'
Lafayette farmers will soon have a new go-to person for their federal conservation, credit and disaster needs.
- Williams state trial postponed
The Rapides Parish District Attorney's Office has postponed the state malfeasance case against former Boyce Police Chief Claude Williams.
- Juvenile Incurs Serious Injuries After Falling Off The Trunk Of A Vehicle
On Monday, September 22, 2008, at 3:28 pm, Louisiana State Police Troop E responded to a serious injury crash involving one vehicle.
- Centra la RV parks gearing up for evacuees
Alexandria Town Talk - Alexandria,LA,USA Local lodging facilities are keeping a close eye on Hurricane Gustav in preparation of history repeating itself.
- Read the story
While businessmen and politicians decide the fate of the Bentley Hotel, others have put themselves to the task of saving its past.
- Meth lab discovered at motel
A motel guest's concern about a strange smell from a room prompted a call to Alexandria police and the discovery of a fully functional methamphetamine lab.
- Shaw Constructors in Boyce, La., achieves U.S. Labor Department's OSHA recognition for safety and health excellence
Shaw Constructors Inc. has earned membership in the prestigious Voluntary Protection Programs of the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration at the star, or highest, level for ...
- 3 People Dead Following Early Morning Fire In Boyce
Central Louisiana has been hit with another tragic fatal fire. According to RPSO, a mother and her 9-month-old twins were killed in a house fire which happened around 3:30 AM Thursday on Willow Street in the ...
- Unrestrained Driver Seriously Injured In Crash
On Tuesday, June 24, 2008, at 5:16 pm, Louisiana State Police Troop E responded to a serious injury crash involving one vehicle.
- Mother, baby twins die in La. house fire
A house fire killed 9-month-old twins and their 21-year-old mother early today; her 4-year-old son and her husband escaped the blaze.
- LMA district meeting set for June 26 in Boyce
Municipal officials in this area will gather here Thursday, June 26, to learn how this year's special and regular legislative sessions have impacted the state's towns and cities.
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City DescriptionBoyce is a town in northern Rapides Parish, Louisiana, United States. It is part of the Alexandria, Louisiana Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 1,190 at the 2000 census. The community is nearly 75 percent African American.
Originally called Cotile Landing, the name was changed to Boyce in 1880, when the Texas and Pacific Railroad made Boyce its terminal point. The town was named for Judge Henry Boyce, who owned the land on which the town was located. Being of Irish descent, Boyce, and/or his son Henry Archinard Boyce, gave all the streets Irish names as he did his own plantation, Ulster, which was immediately adjacent to the town along Bayou Jeunes des Gens (Jean de Jean). The original incorporation date is not on file.
On November 26, 2006, Julius Patrick, Jr., the African American Democratic mayor of Boyce, was killed in a vehicular accident on Interstate 10 in Ascension Parish near Baton Rouge. Patrick had served as mayor since 1978. He had just won an eighth term in the November 7 general election. Patrick had retired in 2005 from a 41-year career in education, mostly in Rapides Parish.
Boyce Police Chief Claude Williams (born 1957) was indicted on December 10, ... Read MoreCity Contained By:- United States
- Rapides Parish
- Louisiana
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