The Lafayette Parish School System spent more than $13 million building new classrooms, cafeterias and other improvements to campuses across the district in 2021. Some projects took all year to finish ...

LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY) — An Arnaudville man is behind bars after Lafayette Police and the U.S. Marshals arrested him for an October 2021 homicide on Jefferson St. Damien Bernard, 25, of Arnaudville, ...

The number of homicides committed in Lafayette Parish rose from 2020 to 2021, driven primarily by a bump in homicides within the city, which follows a continued trend of increased homicides and gun ...

LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY) — An Arnaudville man was indicted in the overdose of a 20-year-old who died after she was found alone and without a pulse in Downtown Lafayette in October. Damien Bernard, 26, of ...

School districts across Louisiana saw truancy rates spike during the 2020-2021 school year, data from the Louisiana Department of Education shows, though the Lafayette Parish School System did not see ...

Corrections & Clarifications: An earlier version of this story included a homicide investigation being conducted by an agency outside of Lafayette Parish. Law enforcement agencies in Lafayette Parish ...

Thirty-four people were killed in Lafayette Parish in 2021. The deaths marked a 47% rise over 2020, when at least 23 homicides were investigated by area law enforcement agencies. The victims ranged ...

A Lafayette, Louisiana, city court judge resigned Friday over a video that surfaced earlier this month showing people using racist language at her home. Michelle Odinet apologized and took a leave of ...

LAFAYETTE PARISH, La. (KLFY) — A Lafayette woman was indicted by a Lafayette Parish Grand Jury for the murder of Christopher Williams, who died in September in what authorities believed was a drug ...

LAFAYETTE, La. (WAFB) - Michelle Odinet, the Lafayette city judge caught on video using racial slurs on a video, announced her resignation in a letter her attorney sent to the Louisiana Supreme Court ...

LAFAYETTE, La. — A Louisiana judge has submitted her resignation to the Louisiana Supreme Court after she was heard using racial slurs on a video, her attorney confirmed. In her letter to the ...