Lafayette News

It never gets old when companies announce they'll locate or expand in or around Lafayette.

Visitor parking at Lafayette General Medical Center will move to the hospital's parking garage on Coolidge Street effective June 1, hospital officials said, and vehicles will only be allowed to access the emergency department from Hospital Drive.

The scholarship program is in it's 4th year and so far has awarded over $155,000 in scholarship money.

Roughly 1500 people packed the Lafayette Convention Center to honor Acadian Ambulance Service paramedics.

The city-owned LUS Fiber telecommunications service has more than 14,000 subscribers, city-parish officials announced Tuesday in the first release of customer numbers since the fiber-optic service launched in 2009.

Drivers have until June 30 to pay thousands of delinquent traffic camera and parking tickets without late penalties before the start of proposed stricter collection policy.

Here in south Louisiana we know what it's like to deal with natural disasters. Anytime a hurricane rips through our state, the rest of the country does it's part to get us back on our feet.

The Lafayette Consolidated Council approved the 30-Day Amnesty Program. The program gives a break to delinquent traffic ticket holders.

On May 19, 2013, at approximately 10:20 pm, Lafayette Police responded to the intersection of South Orange and 8th Street regarding gunfire.

NEW LEADERSHIP TEAM for the Sisters of Mount Carmel include, from left, Sisters Paula Derise, Kathy Farrelly, Lawrence Habetz , Mary Ellen Wheelahan, and Sheila Undang .

The Lafayette City-Parish Council is expected to consider a 30-day amnesty period for motorists who are late paying red-light camera fines, and to consider splitting late fees with contractor Redflex if the company shares the cost of collecting overdue fines.

The staff at Ovey Comeaux High School arrived on campus to find that it had been vandalized over the weekend.

March 5, 1919 ~ May 18, 2013 Funeral services will be held Wednesday, May 22, 2013, at 2 p.m., at Ibert's Mortuary for Elizabeth "Liz" Bigler Carr, 94, a native and lifelong resident of Franklin, who passed away Saturday, May 18, 2013, at 2:20 a.m., at her home with her family at her side.

It's been a year since the disappearance of Mickey Shunick, her body has since been found, her killer Brandon Scott Lavergne has been put away and lessons from her search have been learned.

The weather was perfect Saturday for the first edition of the drive-in theater put on by Downtown Lafayette.

The Mercy Brothers are topping the charts in Europe, made a Grammy ballot, they've played Jazz Fest, Festival International de Louisiane and SXSW.

For some of the 260 graduates from the Moody school of business Saturday afternoon came and went in the blink of an eye.

The Louisiana State Police said 45-year-old Richard "Ricky" Rees was riding a 2013 Harley Davidson on Saturday afternoon when he lost control of the bike on a sharp curve and landed in a ditch.

It never gets old when companies announce they'll locate or expand in or around Lafayette.

In watching and listening to the unfolding stories over the last week of sexual assault in the military, I could not help but notice how similar the military's mess is to the situation in the Roman Catholic church over child abuse carried out by priests.