An appeal court has ruled that Lafayette Consolidated Government abused its authority when it expropriated 372 acres of private land for the Homewood Drive Detention Pond Project.
The land on the Vermilion River was owned by Bendel Partnership and leased for farming.
Source: The Advocate
Sub-freezing temperatures are expected throughout Acadiana and Louisiana Thursday night through Saturday morning, according to the National Weather Service in Lake Charles. Temperatures are forecast to drop into the 20s Thursday and Friday night.
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With forecasted weather to be at or below freezing temperatures later this holiday week, Catholic Charities of Acadiana will enact a freeze shelter plan to ensure the safety of those experiencing homelessness.
Source: KATC
Last week, a hearing was held in Lafayette on formal charges lodged against Odinet by the agency that handles complaints and discipline against attorneys licensed to practice in Louisiana.
The decision regarding discipline against her hasn’t been announced.
Source: KATC
The Lafayette City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to defer indefinitely a resolution supporting and financing half of the proposed study. Instead, council members may hold town hall meetings to gather public feedback while the administration seeks proposals for sites available for a new performing arts center.
Source: The Advocate
Edwards, a retired 15th Judicial District Court judge, defeated Roya Boustany, a felony prosecutor in the 15th Judicial District Court district attorney’s office, Saturday in a city-wide runoff to fill the vacancy created a year ago when Michelle Odinet resigned under pressure after a home video surfaced of her using a racial slur to describe an alleged burglar at her home.
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The City and Parish councils deferred action on establishing a new public records policy to work out kinks. The administration has signaled willingness to go along with the changes.
Parish Councilman Kevin Naquin, the council’s finance chair, proposed the raise and others to make some top government jobs more attractive. Naquin ruled out run for M-P himself. If approved, the mayor-president’s salary would increase by $48,000.
Set to be introduced next week, the ordinance adopts a new policy for handling public records requests, along with a bill of rights, and eliminates fees for sending records electronically. Under intense press scrutiny, the Guillory administration had imposed a $1 per page fee to email public records earlier this year, drawing a legal challenge from The Current and The Advocate.
The ordinance also establishes a records clerk position within the council office to handle requests.
Source: The Advocate
Guillory has taken heat for his efforts to make money on the side, among them teaching courses at UL and taking on legal work after promising to shutter his law practice. The administration is also again asking the council for a slate of raises for top appointees.
Louisiana Right to Life — the state’s most powerful anti-abortion group — has been celebrating a victory it’s spent over 50 years fighting to achieve, but it wants to go further. It wants to end an exception to the ban that allows for abortions for so-called “medically futile” pregnancies in the next legislative session.
Source: WWNO
Although flu is outpacing other respiratory viruses like RSV, adenovirus, parainfluenza and rhinovirus, the combination has led to packed emergency rooms and full doctors’ offices.
Source: The Advocate
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