What's making news in Acadiana this morning
| BY MEGAN WYATT | Staff writer Emotions reached a breaking point in Tyler Benoit's murder trial Thursday afternoon, culminating with his defense attorney calling for a mistrial after a state prosecutor called him a "tricky lawyer." Read more |
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| BY CLAIRE TAYLOR | Staff writer Former Lafayette Police Chief Thomas Glover called into a radio talk show Thursday morning asking Mayor-President Josh Guillory to tell him and the community why he was fired 10 months after Guillory hired him. Read more |
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| BY KATIE GAGLIANO | Staff writer Lafayette Parish School System educators will see both a raise and a lump sum bonus check this year, even as feelings about how to direct money from a sales tax fund dedicated to support teacher salaries remain split. Read more |
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| By JOSEPH CRANNEY | Staff writer Larry Hollier is out as chancellor of the LSU Health Sciences Center in New Orleans, bringing an abrupt end to a 15-year tenure amid a raft of allegations that he pushed for improper pay bumps for his inner circle, underpaid women and violated the university’s policies while hiring and firing people. Read more |
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| By KEN STICKNEY | Staff writer More than six weeks after Hurricane Ida made landfall, Catholic Charities of Acadiana is continuing to send assistance to their counterparts in Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes, even as remote areas of both parishes struggle to regroup and rebuild. Read more |
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| BY WILL SENTELL | Staff writer State education leaders have delayed action on new social studies standards a second time amid off and on complaints on how the benchmarks would present the nation's racial history. Read more |
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| Keeping your home clean and sanitized is essential these days to try to keep germs out of the house. Mopping may not be the most fun chore … Read more |
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| | If you've been missing your local coffee shop and their piping hot espresso, there's plenty of espresso makers, brews, and accessories you … Read more |
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| | Exercise always seems like the last thing on the list that you can get done. Work, kids, chores — they all seem to come first. But ignoring… Read more |
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