New Iberia News

In spite of eight-hour blood transfusions every three weeks, 16-year-old Ollie Green can be stricken at any time with instant, debilitating pain.

A New Iberia, La., teenager says he's missed a lot of life to hospital stays for sickle cell disease.

That's the joke Tony's Seafood Market and Deli Manager Steve LeBlanc tells when talking about the start of Louisiana crawfish season.

Retired principal DELCAMBRE Services for long-time teacher and principla Pershing Cashen, Sr.

Three Acadiana sites are among the more than 130 locations featured in Deep South Magazine's new Southern Literary Trail App.

State Superintendent of Schools John White spent time in area schools today. White says he wants to talk with quote the frontline workers to get their thoughts on how to improve education in the state.

Iberia Parish authorities say they arrested a New Iberia man after he led deputies on a chase Tuesday afternoon.

On Tuseday, Tammy Dugas discussed the drunk driving tragedy that killed her daughter during Mardi Gras.

The party platters and snack foods will be out in full force in millions of homes today as the New... DIVISION I Parkway at New Iberia, 6 p.m., Wednesday Captain Shreve at Lafayette High, 5 p.m., Thursday St.

A city bus has been involved in an accident on Evangeline Thruway, and KATC-TV has spoken to a rider on the bus.

There's a theory that seasons with end with dramatic bowl wins don't pay off in the recruiting wars... Members and their humans of the Krewe des Chiens, or the Krewe of the Dog, will be holding the 14th... Cajun Groundhog Day: Pierre C. Shaddeaux, the Cajun Groundhog, once again made his prediction for the upcoming season.

Cajun Groundhog Day: Pierre C. Shaddeaux, the Cajun Groundhog, once again made his prediction for the upcoming season.

Matthew P. Verret 20 years old of 206 Belair Dr., New Iberia, La., Patrick Richardson 17 Years old of 202 Brumlye Lane, Lafayette, La.

In Division I, Byrd has the best seed at No. 7. The Lady Yellow Jackets will host No.

In this November 2004 Daily Advertiser file photo, Lafayette Democrats watch presidential election results at the Blue Moon Saloon in Lafayette.

They yielded 27 points from behind the arc in their last outing, allowing UL Monroe to hit 9-of-18... A former Carencro Middle School guidance counselor is sentenced to 18 years in prison for possession of cocaine in a school zone.

The St. Martin Parish Sheriff's Office narcotics unit arrested two men on drug counts Friday after deputies found a clandestine crack cocaine laboratory in a home on Maraist Street, according to a sheriff's news release Monday.

The great-grandson of the Tabasco pepper sauce inventor died Saturday. Ned Simmons, former CEO and chairman of the board of McIlhenny Co., was 83 years old.

The final weekend of UL's Class of 2012 recruiting effort was a big one for the Ragin' Cajuns, who... A cease-and-desist order has been issued for A American Debt Consolidation on Center Street in New Iberia for allegedly failing to provide the necessary $100,000 bond required for credit repair companies by state law.

MOBILE, Alabama -- Southern literary novels have all but disappeared in recent years, with Cormac McCarthy being perhaps the sole heir to the likes of William Faulkner, Eudora Welty and Walker Percy.