![Lafayette Parish Correctional Center in Downtown Lafayette](https://media.thecurrentla.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/14163941/Lafayette-Parish-Jail.jpg)
Council advances plan to relocate 17-year-old offenders
The plan attempts to work around the legal limbo created by the Legislature this year when it revised criminal statutes to allow 17-year-olds to be charged and tried as adults.
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Judge to set fines for Himbola
Judge Stuart Paul Bowie told representatives of American Agape Foundation Inc., Himbola’s nonprofit manor, that fines would come, but the amount depends on how quickly and adequately the complex is brought up to code.
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UL backs off Science Museum’s ‘safe school zone’ designation
The university has instead posted signage that the building itself is a weapons-free facility.
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Himbola owners and city head to adjudication court
Lafayette officials are bringing a case against Himbola apartments, which could face thousands in code violation fines.
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Column: Lafayette’s infrastructure boom goes bust in Boulet’s first budget
Mayor-President Monique Blanco Boulet inherited more than half a billion of infrastructure projects. Her first budget signals that an infrastructure hangover has arrived.
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Miguez seeks AG opinion UL gun-free zones
State Sen. Blake Miguez, R-New Iberia, is picking a fight with the University of Louisiana Lafayette over its new off-campus gun-free zones.
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LCG pauses key penalty in recycling tag program
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LPD to enforce gun-free buffer around UL Science Museum
LPD will enforce the 1,000-foot gun-free school zone around the UL Science Museum in Downtown Lafayette, clarifying more than a week of confusion around how firearm-free zones work.