PHOTO: Wendell Smith (left) of Seguin, Texas, and Phil Bowden of San Marcos, Texas, smile broadly as they wrap up Tour du Teche V with a first-in-class and first-overall wins, paddling their HUKI surfski 135 miles in 19 hours, 43 minutes and 3 seconds for an average speed of 6.06 mph.
As of Aug. 20, the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals was confirming 20 human cases of West Nile virus. This information, combined with recent West Nile virus positive mosquitoes and sentinel chickens, raises concerns about public awareness and individual efforts to avoid mosquitoes whenever possible.
South Louisiana Community College needs to be able to train commercial pilots.
UL Lafayette needs a new facility for its growing engineering school.
And all of Louisiana’s state universities and colleges need greater autonomy to compete in the national effort to turn out a skilled workforce.
Nearly a dozen Breaux Bridge area retail outlets were among those receiving citations by Alcohol and Tobacco Control agents during ATC’s “summer crackdown.”
A Lafayette cardiologist three years into a 10-year term at the federal penitentiary in Oakdale for Medicare fraud was booked into the St. Martin Parish jail last week.