Lafayette News

A 23-year-old man found dead this morning may have been involved in a fight outside a local bar, police said.

Lafayette police are reopening an investigation into a 2007 slaying after the arrest of a man in the deaths of 3 Baton Rouge women.

Powerful thunderstorms swept across Louisiana on Thursday, producing possible tornadoes and high winds blamed in the death of one person and damage to homes.

Traffic investigators arrested 36-year-old Sherry Ann Smith of Lafayette on Wednesday and charged her with felony hit and run.

The project supports LADOTD initiatives to use electronic technology in detecting, managing and responding to traffic incidents along several heavily traveled highways in the Lafayette area and Atchafalaya Basin.

Lafayette's unemployment rate fell by more than half a point in November, the Louisiana Workforce Development Commission said today.

Local and federal investigators have broken up yet another Hub City drug ring, arresting twelve suspects this week.

Lafayette police have arrested a woman whom they believe struck and killed a man last month on West Congress Street.

True Grit tells the story of a young woman that will not give up on her search in the hunt for whomever may have killed her father.

A pharmacy owner in Grand Couteau has pleaded guilty to federal drug and money laundering charges in the investigation of a prescription fraud scheme.

A Hub City business owner is facing felony charges after a month-long investigation by the state police.

WASHINGTON D.C., June 8, 2009 Lafayette Music Company, of 3700 Johnston Street, Lafayette Louisiana, has been selected for the 2009 Best of Lafayette Award in the Music Dealers category by the U.S. Commerce Association .

A man with a lengthy criminal record and ties to Acadiana was arrested in Baton Rouge on Wednesday in connection with the deaths of three women there.

Lafayette- Today troopers with Louisiana State Police Insurance Fraud Unit arrested a Lafayette man for switching a vehicle identification number plate on a car, and theft by fraud.

Casting agents will be in Lafayette today searching for a 12- to 16-year-old actress to play the lead role in a new Coen Brothers' film.

Between 9 p.m. Monday and 3 a.m. Tuesday, nine vehicles parked at seven establishments were burglarized.

The search continues for this escaped inmate, Jeremy Fontenot, who got away Friday night.

Brothers Joel and Ethan Coen, famous for such movies as "Raising Arizona," "Fargo" and "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" are filming a remake of the John Wayne classic, "True Grit," and looking for one of the lead characters in Lafayette.

Snow, sleet and rain over the past few weeks cost Acadian Village four days of fund raising on behalf of the Lafayette Association of Retarded Citizens.

Lafayette Police are questioning a man they suspect shot and killed another man in broad daylight in a Lafayette Neighborhood.