Lafayette News

Thanks to community support, the Police Association of Lafayette was able to provide 41 families with a complete Thanksgiving feast.

A teacher from Lafayette parish was among those receiving scholarships, stipends and grands from the Associated Professional Educators of Louisiana, or A+PEL, at its annual conference earlier this month.

The Acadian Centre Acadien, Abbeville Cultural & Historical Alliance and the Cajun Culture Association jointly announce the availability of the Russell Gaspard French Immersion Scholarship to be awarded to Vermilion Parish high school students, for the 2010 summer French immersion study program in Nova Scotia, Canada.

Four people were robbed at gunpoint early Thursday in separate incidents in two of Lafayette's nightclub districts.

A Lafayette Parish sheriff's deputy was cited Thursday for allegedly slashing a vehicle's tire in the parking lot of Walmart.

A Louisiana banking company sees the worst rash of bank failures in two decades as fertile ground to expand well beyond the state line.

The Lafayette Police Department asks for the public's help in identifying a man who entered an apartment on Wilson Street without permission.

Sara Brooks the reigning Miss Lafayette was crowned Miss Louisiana USA on October 31, 2009 at the Heymann in Lafayette.

The state health department's St. Mary Parish area manager and a former parish manager for the state Office of Family Services are among 14 people accused of food stamp fraud.

Rockets slammed into a market northeast of Kabul on Monday, killing 12 civilians but missing their presumed target: a meeting between France's top general in Afghanistan and dozens of tribal elders and senior local officials.

The Hub City has cracked the top ten in what one study claims are the top performing cities in the country.

The head of a government-funded legal defense project that handles appeals in Louisiana death penalty cases has resigned amid allegations that at least $100,000 of the group's money might have been misappropriated.

Lafayette- Troopers with the Louisiana State Police, assisted by officers with the Lafayette Police Department, and deputies from the Lafayette Parish Sheriff's Office, arrested a Lafayette man on charges of attempted distribution of pornography involving juveniles.

A man wanted in the robbery and beating of a 66-year-old woman in Covington may have fled to Lafayette, according to the St.

Name a fall event that can bring a Grammy winner, an Emmy winner, a member of the first family of Baton Rouge blues and dozens of touring musicians to Lafayette.

Lafayette police have arrested a 46-year-old Shreveport man in a July 2007 armed robbery of a couple at a Lafayette motel.

A man sits behind bars and his young son is in a hospital after police say the man placed the 4-year-old in a tub of scalding hot water.

On Friday, Governor Bobby Jindal joined Lafayette City-Parish President Joey Durel, Pixel Magic Vice President and General Manager Ray Scalice, Pixel Magic Vice President and VFX Supervisor Raymond McIntyre, Jr., University of Louisiana at Lafayette President Dr.

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