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Carencro News
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- Carencro's Johnson taking other visits
Carencro High's speedy wide receiver Ricky Johnson confirmed Wednesday that he is taking visits throughout the month of January before making his decision of where to continue his football career.
- Carencro Family of 9 loses Home in Fire
A Carencro family is homeless, after losing their home in a fire. The fire happened around 8:00 Friday night, causing the Celestine's, a family of 9, to lose everything.
- Former CBC employee Anthony Sanders killed in motorcycle wreck
Anthony Sanders, accused of copying thousands of e-mails and confidential personnel information off CBC computers last year without authorization and turning two DVD disks of the information over to a Jim Wells ...
- Three killed in accidents
Authorities are investigating three separate crashes that have left three people dead this weekend.
- Motorcyclist Killed In Afternoon Crash
Troop I is investigating a two vehicle fatal crash on NE Frontage Road north of Carencro within St.
- Marc Brousssard
In 2002, Marc Broussard gave up on the Christian-rock circuit for a solo career that sizzles like a bayou barbecue, where sinners jam and the saints keep a keen eye out for the law.
- Fireworks
Announcing the New Year would not be complete without the sights and sounds of fireworks.
- 2008 Carencro Country Christmas Outdoor Decoration Awards
Congratulations to the following individuals and businesses who are the winners of the 2008 Carencro Country Christmas Outdoor Decoration Awards! Homes: Stacy Benoit at 101 Musique Road.
- Police Beat
St. Landry Parish - The St. Landry Parish Sheriff's office reported booking the following people Saturday: Karl J. Benoit, 49, 132 Tambour Lane, Eunice, charged with two counts of possession of Schedule II ...
- 3 sites destroyed
A former night club that stood in Sunset for more than 40 years is no more following a Monday night fire that police believe may be linked to a nearby armed robbery.
- Police Beat
St. Landry Parish - The St. Landry Parish Sheriff's office reported booking the following people Tuesday: John Bradley Culpepper, 20, 23566 La.
- Landry elected to FSA committee
Eugene "Gene" Landry, a cattle producer from Carencro, was elected for a three-year term to the Lafayette Farm Service Agency County Committee.
- Black Bear Spotted in Carencro
Carencro Police Chief Carlos Stout wants all of Carencro to beware. There has been a sighting of a Louisiana Black Bear.
- Around Lafayette
CARENCRO DNA evidence helped Carencro police solve a string of 12 vehicle burglaries, the Police Department said.
- Live Oak Elementary receives grant
Live Oak Elementary School will receive $1,000 to enhance math or science. Each year Cynthia Lee Menard of Lee's Hardware and Exxon Inc., applies for an ExxonMobil Educational Alliance grant for one of the ...
- Blood Relations
Carencro police say blood left at the crime scene of each vehicle burglary was used to charge 27 year old Travis Amy with twelve counts of vehicular burglary.
- Traffic Update: Accidents reported
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- Kristen Hebert and Keith Steiner
Mr. Evan Hebert & Ms. Rachel Holloway Hebert of Lafayette are pleased to announce the engagement and upcoming nuptials of their daughter, Kristen Nicole Hebert to Keith Thomas Steiner son of Mr.
- Zachary Snider and Sarah Guillory
Glynn and Audrey Guillory are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Sarah Effie Audrey Guillory, to Zachary John Snider of Greenville SC.
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- Mobile Home Leveling
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City DescriptionCarencro (historically French: St.-Pierre) is a small city in Lafayette Parish, Louisiana, United States. It is a suburb of the nearby city of Lafayette. The population was 6,120 at the 2000 census. Its name comes from the Louisiana Creole word for buzzard: the spot was one where large flocks of buzzards roosted in the bald cypress trees. The name means "carrion crow."
Carencro is part of the Lafayette Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Many senior Carencro natives attest that the town's name originates from an unspecified episode of dialogue before the American Civil War. According to this local legend, native Americans told Vermillionville settlers that a large number of "carrion crows" had settled around the Vermillion River between Lafayette, Louisiana and Opelousas, Louisiana to feast on the large carcass of a stranded whale or unusual fish die-off. This legend comes from a mastodon, whose bones were collected by a French naturalist shortly afterward and shipped to the Musee du Jardin des Planteurs of Paris, but were unfortunately wrecked and lost at sea. The only relic of the mastodon was a femur or leg bone that was kept by the first Guilbeau and used as a pestle to bruise ... Read MoreCity Contained By:- United States
- Louisiana
- Lafayette Parish
City Contains:- Paul's Pirogue Restaurant
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