Friday, May 9, 2008
ACADIANA
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LAFAYETTE — The Police Department is splitting the city’s busiest precinct in the hopes of reducing workload to improve service.
LAFAYETTE — Firefighters, police and city marshals are within days of a possible settlement in a long-fought lawsuit with city-parish government, an attorney for the emergency workers said this week. LAFAYETTE — The leader of the N.P. Moss Middle School parents’ group said Thursday that she and her fellow parents are comfortable with the way the school system is handling repairs and reoccupation of the school. NEW IBERIA — Employees of Iberia Parish government will see a 3 percent increase in pay starting with their next paychecks, officials said Wednesday. LAFAYETTE — Lafayette Parish School Superintendent Burnell Lemoine on Wednesday announced that N.P. Moss Middle School will partially reopen in the fall. LAFAYETTE — Friends, colleagues and esteemed community members gathered Wednesday at a luncheon to pay tribute to retiring University of Louisiana at Lafayette President Ray Authement. NEW IBERIA — The Iberia Parish School Board spent its time celebrating both academic and athletic achievements during its regular Wednesday night meeting. VILLE PLATTE — A federal judge has given approval to the Evangeline Parish School Board to spend up to $28,500 to pay for the cost of moving bleachers from Kinder to Pine Prairie High School. LAFAYETTE — The newly named leader of the group working on recommendations for future construction and maintenance of Lafayette Parish public schools has already established a reputation with the school system central office staff. LAFAYETTE — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Tuesday proposed 1.3 million acres as “critical habitat” for the Louisiana black bear — a designation that could add protections for the threatened species. NEW ORLEANS — A federal appellate court has upheld U.S. District Judge James Brady’s decision to throw out a Denham Springs man’s triple-murder conviction and death sentence and grant him a new trial. LAFAYETTE — The City-Parish Council on Tuesday deferred a vote that could stop a controversial plan by Greyhound Lines to move its bus station to a neighborhood on Moss Street. LAFAYETTE — Lafayette Parish could face stricter pollution limits in coming years when the federal government toughens air quality standards. LAFAYETTE — About 50 Lafayette Parish Jail inmates recently took advantage of a new opportunity to ease the transition back from incarceration to making their way on the outside. ABBEVILLE — The Vermilion Parish Police Jury at a regular meeting Monday night gave parish bond attorney Lonnie Bewley permission to draft a document creating a Vermilion Parish Hurricane Flood Protection and Drainage District. LAFAYETTE — Classical guitarist Gerd Wuestemann has been tapped to head the Acadiana Arts Council, the organization’s board of directors announced Monday. The Performing Arts Society of Acadiana is kicking off its annual musical instrument recycling program through the end of the month. EUNICE — There are no doctors or nurses in sight, because she is now cancer-free. There are no lawyers calling, because she has long since survived a divorce. With these traumatic events in the past, Marcia Ann Benoit, 53, has decided to scale a new mountain: college. LAFAYETTE — The city of Scott has agreed to settle a lawsuit alleging an officer improperly used deadly force in shooting a man when responding to a family quarrel in 2004. LAFAYETTE — Firefighters, police and city marshals are seeking a nearly $19 million judgment against city-parish government in a long-fought lawsuit over back wages. LAFAYETTE — Lafayette City Parish President Joey Durel and a pair of local legislators held a small ceremony Friday for two convenience store employees credited with helping save a life. |
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