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Correctional officer offered food for sex acts, lewd behavior

Rebecca Chaisson
Friday, August 19, 2022
A St. Landry Parish correctional officer is accused of offering to trade food with female inmates for sexual acts and displays of lewd behavior. The arrest was announced on a St. Landry Parish Office’s social media page.
Pomegranates produce hundreds of seeds encased in an edible membrane that produces a delicious juice. (LSU AgCenter file photo)

Pomegranates produce hundreds of seeds encased in an edible membrane that produces a delicious juice. (LSU AgCenter file photo)

Black-eyed peas and cabbage are not the only foods that bring luck

Rebecca Chaisson
Friday, August 19, 2022
Pomegranates are unique fruits whose origins have been traced to Persia. Native to Iran through northern India, they are grown around the world today. The fruit is considered sacred and is believed to provide abundance, fertility and even luck.
Beer maid.

Beer maid.

Roberts Cove Germanfest returns after two-year absence

Rebecca Chaisson
Friday, August 19, 2022
Come celebrate German-style at the 2022 annual Roberts Cove Germanfest on Oct. 1 and 2. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and aftermath, the festival was forced to be canceled in 2020 and 2021, but will now return to the historic grounds of St.

Billy wouldn’t leave his gold

Rebecca Chaisson
Friday, August 19, 2022
Jean Lafitte left New Orleans and the ruins of his Baratarian kingdom in 1818 to make a new start on Galveston Island, but not all of his band went with him. One of those who stayed behind was known as Billy Bowlegs, and he became almost as notorious as a Gulf of Mexico raider as Lafitte himself.

Raid changes his mind about voting

Rebecca Chaisson
Friday, August 19, 2022
If you weren’t fearful of government before this week, you should be scared to death by now. This is the United States of America. Not Venezuela. Or is it?

Are you losing sleep over slumber parties?

Rebecca Chaisson
Friday, August 19, 2022
Are you losing sleep over slumber par“Anxious parents are no longer allowing their kids to go to slumber parties,” announced a blurb in the August 16 “New York Post.

Church Point man sentenced 5 years for negligent homicide

Rebecca Chaisson
Friday, August 19, 2022
A Church Point man was sentenced to five years at hard labor after pleading guilty to negligent homicide in connection to a 2020 murder in Church Point. Nicholas Wayne Ardoin, 20, of Church Point, was set to stand trial on Aug. 15 in connection with the Nov.

UL Lafayette among top 100 public research universities in U.S.

Rebecca Chaisson
Friday, August 19, 2022
The University of Louisiana at Lafayette has taken its place among the nation’s top 100 public research universities. Dr. Joseph Savoie, UL Lafayette president, made the announcement Wednesday during the annual State of the University address.
UL Lafayette’s College of Engineering will expand its footprint on campus with construction of a 70,000-square-foot academic building that will be situated near its other two buildings – Madison and Rougeou halls. (Submitted rendering)

UL Lafayette’s College of Engineering will expand its footprint on campus with construction of a 70,000-square-foot academic building that will be situated near its other two buildings – Madison and Rougeou halls. (Submitted rendering)

UL Lafayette College of Engineering to get new building

Rebecca Chaisson
Friday, August 19, 2022
State funding paves way for new College of Engineering building at UL Lafayette The University of Louisiana at Lafayette is laying the groundwork for construction of a 70,000-square-foot building for its College of Engineering that will provide for enhanced instruction, and improved research and...