Lafayette Parish News

Authorities in Lafayette County have recovered the body of a woman whose friend told police she vanished as they rode air mattresses over the Lake Erling spillway at dusk.

Otis E. "Rocky" Kennedy has been named interim coroner in Lafayette County effective Nov.

A former sheriff who was twice removed from office for public drunkenness has been ordered to used a breath machine to start his vehicles as part of a plea deal on his third DUI.

A 27-year-old man is in custody after being charged with capital murder and aggravated assault in the shooting deaths of a Lafayette County man and his son, and the wounding of a third victim.

An unidentified suspect remains at large in the weekend slayings of a father and son and the wounding of a woman in Lafayette County.

A Lafayette County grand jury has decided against indicting a 70-year-old woman accused of fatally shooting a man she said was dragging her husband with a car.

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