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The Abbeville High Lady Wildcats Power Lifting Team secured a fourth place finish at the West Regional Power lifting tournament held last week. Here is how they placed at Regionals. • Khandi Shuford in the 123 pound class won the West Regionals and was also named the girls’ oustanding light...

A evening fire damaged multiple rooms at the Express Inn in Lafayette.

A shopping center in Scott that is anchored by the Piggly Wiggly supermarket sold for $4.5 million. The Scott Oaks Plaza, 5500-5545 Cameron St., sold to an LLC registered to a Memphis, Tennessee-based commercial real estate group, land records show. The seller was an LLC registered to Houston-based 5Rivers CRE,...

LAFAYETTE, La. (NEWS 15) — A person, who was riding an electric scooter, is hospitalized after getting hit by three vehicles, one of them operated by a suspected drunk driver, according to the Lafayette Police Department. Dakota Wagoner, 36, of Lafayette, is charged with vehicular negligent injuring and OWI...

(KMDL-FM) What is "excessive rainfall"? I guess the answer to that question depends on who you are asking. The National Weather Service and the Weather Prediction Center have an official definition for it. But let's face it, for someone who has just had their weekend plans washed out because of a passing storm, that...

A pedestrian is in critical condition following a major crash on W. Pinhook. Lafayette Police are currently on scene.

Empire Wingz, a Baton Rouge-based wing concept, is coming soon to Lafayette, LA, at 1521 Ambassador Caffery Parkway, right next to the recently opened La Chapina & La Catraccha and Mexican Food. Founded in 2012 by Vic Smith, Empire Wingz began when Smith served hot wings at his nightclub, gaining...

Marcel Gumbs, the head custodian at Our Lady of Fatima School for 30 years, passed away on Wednesday, February 25, 2026, at 2:20 PM at Ochsner University Hospital, surrounded by his loving family. He was 54 and had a long, courageous battle with cancer. The familiar face of Marcel Gumbs...

The Lafayette Consolidated Government recently launched a survey that aims to help shape growth in the parish’s unincorporated areas. The fastest-growing areas in Lafayette Parish are outside of Lafayette city limits, with places like Youngsville, Broussard and Carencro, and their outskirts, among the fastest-growing...

TERREBONNE PARISH, LA. (KLFY) — Four suspects are wanted in connection with a February 8, 2026, shooting incident, which occurred in Gray, Deputies said. Arrest warrants for the following suspects: No further information on the shooting incident has been released. Deputies asked the public to not attempt to make...