What's making news in Acadiana this morning
 | BY CLAIRE TAYLOR | Staff writer The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality and local fire departments have been monitoring the Scott Construction Dump on Gene Pitt Road in Scott for weeks since a landfill employee reported on Dec. 2 smoke emanating from underground. Read more |
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 | By DAVIDE MAMONE | Staff Writer Last week, Omicron, the new extremely contagious variant of COVID-19, seemed to be spreading everywhere in Louisiana but one place. However, in Immigration Customs and Enforcement detention facilities in the state the number of positive cases was only 1% of the total population, a number immigrant advocates questioned. Read more |
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 | BY KEVIN FOOTE | Staff writer Having a home game canceled Saturday against Arkansas-Little Rock was bad enough. Read more |
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 | BY KATIE GAGLIANO | Staff writer Schools around Acadiana are making temporary shifts to remote learning as administrators try to bring COVID-19 case numbers and close-contact quarantine numbers among students and staff under control amid a wave of Omicron variant cases. Read more |
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 | Staff report Lafayette Parish School System Superintendent Irma Trosclair and district administrators visited district schools Monday to formally announce the 2022-2023 Teacher of the Year honorees for elementary, middle, and high schools. Read more |
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 | By DAVIDE MAMONE | Staff Writer Lafayette Parish and surrounding areas are experiencing blood shortages at alarming levels amid the COVID-19 omicron variant surge, following a national trend announced Tuesday by The American Red Cross. Read more |
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