Breaux Bridge News

A committee of Louisiana's top school board Tuesday voted to study changes in how public schools are graded amid complaints that East Baton Rouge Parish school officials are transferring students to boost school scores.

No matter what your taste in music, a young prodigy like Hunter Hayes is hard to pass up.

The couple will be united in the sacrament of Holy Matrimony at seven o'clock in the evening on Saturday, June 22, 2013 at St. Bernard Church in Breaux Bridge.

For William "Sean" Bengtson, there is no job more important than fatherhood. "It's the best thing in the world," said Bengtson, 43. The Kaplan resident just celebrated the June 9 birth of twin sons, Noah William and Evan Sean, with his wife, Christian Bengtson, at Women's & Children's Hospital in Lafayette.

Two bills strengthening Louisiana's stance as one of the most anti-abortion states in the nation were signed by Gov. Bobby Jindal Friday.

A superintendent working on a piece of equipment at Cargill Salt in Breaux Bridge died in an industrial accident Saturday evening, a Cargill official said.

Special to the Daily/Suzanne Hoffman Under one roof, hundreds of festival goers can enjoy nonstop Cajun food and music at the Mudbug Madness Festival in Shreveport, Louisiana.

A Beaumont woman was killed in a wreck in Louisiana on Friday afternoon. 24-year old Grace Lee was a passenger in a car that was traveling on I-10 near Breaux Bridge when the vehicle she was in was struck by a vehicle that was being towed by another vehicle that broke free and crossed the median.

The couple will be united in the sacrament of Holy Matrimony at seven o'clock in the evening on Friday, August 2, 2013 at St. Genevieve Catholic Church in Lafayette.

A 24-year-old woman who wasn't wearing a seat belt was killed Friday when an unoccupied Jeep broke loose from a car towing it, crossed the median and struck the car the woman was riding in, according to a Louisiana State Police Troop I news release.

The Louisiana Legislature has agreed to close the inpatient beds and emergency room at LSU's hospital in Lake Charles, turning it into an outpatient clinic as part of a planned privatization deal.

The St. Martin Council on Aging is hosting the Older Americans Appreciation Luncheon today at St.

RUSTY COSTANZA / THE TIMES-PICAYUNE A couple enters Cajun Claws in Abbeville on Tuesday, March 15, 2011.

The Senate Finance Committee backed the proposal by Rep. Chris Broadwater, R-Hammond, without objection Wednesday, after making changes to address concerns about the flow of money that would be gathered.

It's a day to remember, praise and understand the sacrifices men and women of the armed forces made for their country.

A proposal to study an alternative path for Interstate 49 South that would bypass Lafayette appears dead for this year.

The committee included an Adley, a Buffington, a Nevers, a Smith and a Heitmeier, but there was nary a Boudreaux or a Lapeyrouse in sight.

A proposal by two legislators to study an alternative path for Interstate 49 South that would bypass Lafayette appears dead for this year.

Assessors in Louisiana would be able to raise their own salaries by up to about 17 percent over four years under a bill headed to the state House.

BRETT DUKE / THE TIMES-PICAYUNE Mary Burns and Gus Tujague cut a rug to the live music of Mary Broussard & Creole Royalty during the Louisiana Cajun-Zydeco Festival at the Old U.S. Mint in New Orleans Saturday, June 9, 2012.