Lafayette News

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.

Sohail A. Rana of Lafayette who was arrested in June 2012 for Domestic Battery appears to have walked off with light sentencing.

Work is expected to begin next month on a $1.2 million project to extend city water and sewer lines under Interstate 10 to serve undeveloped tracts north of the interstate, said Pat Logan, who oversees planning for Scott.

After Spc. Freddy Hook, a medic with the Army's 82nd Airborne Division, killed himself in 2010, the trail of possible causes seemed long.

Carencro Police Chief Carlos Stout on Friday disputed a federal indictment that implies officers in his small department were paid to look the other way during illegal drug sales and prostitution at Desperado's Gentlemen's Cabaret.

A motorcade of Lafayette Police units were pulling into a church parking lot on Thursday evening commemorating their fallen brothers during National Police Week; and in the company of their family.

Lafayette Police are investigating a missing teen. Fifteen year old Domanesha Benjamin was last seen at her mother's house at 108 South Refinery on Sunday, Mother's Day.

A plan is being considered by city parish officials that could set the stage for changes on one of the fastest growing areas of Lafayette Parish; Ambassador Caffery Parkway.

Lafayette Parish Sheriff's Deputies have arrested and charged 52-year-old Thomas Dessoye of Lafayette with one count of contributing to the delinquency of a juvenile and 101 counts of possessing child pornography.