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Tuesday, October 7, 2008
ACADIANA
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LAFAYETTE — A judge Monday denied parents’ request for an injunction against changes to Lafayette Parish School System’s transportation plan.
LAFAYETTE — Qualifying for the state House District 31 seat opened Monday with only one candidate signing up to replace Don Trahan, who resigned last week to take a job with the state Department of Education. LAFAYETTE — The trial for a Lafayette cardiologist accused of health-care fraud continued Monday with testimony from an expert witness who said that many of the medical procedures performed by the well-known doctor were unnecessary and that some of the doctor’s diagnoses were false. LAFAYETTE — Police investigated two separate and apparently unrelated robberies over the weekend at a hotel on Evangeline Thruway. CROWLEY — The grading policy for some subjects in five elementary grade levels for the first semester was altered unanimously following much discussion Monday by the Acadia Parish School Board. The Performing Arts Society of Acadiana will launch its 2008-2009 series on Saturday with “Zydeco Zare,” a modern dance piece set to zydeco music. ABBEVILLE — The Vermilion Parish Police Jury unanimously elected to accept the new parish tax assessment evaluations for the 2008 tax year as submitted by Assessor Michael Langlinais. LAFAYETTE — The down-home, memory-making celebration with a cultural flair — Festivals Acadiens et Creoles — is back for its annual three-day run this coming weekend in Lafayette. LAFAYETTE — Lafayette City Marshal Earl “Nickey” Picard handily won re-election Saturday, and voters delivered an upset in one of two hotly contested races for district attorney in Acadiana. LAFAYETTE — A state report says 8.6 percent of Lafayette Parish students who started high school in 2006-07 dropped out during their freshman year. LAFAYETTE — Bar owners in the downtown area and along McKinley and Simcoe streets could be facing mandatory monthly fees from $250 to $2,000 to fund police patrols. LAFAYETTE — Another class-action lawsuit has been filed in federal court against a railroad company involved in a May train derailment in Lafayette. OPELOUSAS — Mosquitoes and hurricane debris have begun leaving St. Landry Parish at a faster pace than last month, parish President Don Menard said Friday. LAFAYETTE — Now that tax credits are available to home and business owners who choose solar and wind energy systems, the state is growing a new work force to install the alternative energy sources. LAFAYETTE — Acadiana voters Saturday will decide two heated races for district attorney, a contest for Lafayette city marshal and a road-funding proposal in St. Landry Parish. LAFAYETTE — The federal health-care fraud trial of a Lafayette cardiologist continued Thursday with testimony from an expert doctor and several of the defendant’s former employees. OPELOUSAS — The St. Landry Parish School Board on Thursday approved damage estimates of $86,774 for nine schools affected by Hurricane Gustav. ABBEVILLE — The Vermilion Parish School Board agreed to a new collective bargaining agreement with the Vermilion Association of Educators at a regular meeting Thursday. LAFAYETTE — The University of Louisiana at Lafayette’s solar-powered, BeauSoleil home is closer to production as part of the U.S. Department of Energy’s international design-build competition, the Solar Decathlon. LAFAYETTE — The jury was selected and opening arguments were heard Wednesday in the often-delayed federal health-care fraud case against a well-known cardiologist accused of billing for more than $2 million in unnecessary medical procedures. LAFAYETTE — The race for House District 31 unofficially began Wednesday, less than 24 hours after Don Trahan announced he was leaving the seat to take a job with the state Department of Education. LAFAYETTE — Parish students will have to make up two days of instruction lost during school closures for hurricanes Gustav and Ike last month. LAFAYETTE — The City-Parish Council could not agree Wednesday on a replacement for District 6 Councilman Bruce Conque, meaning the decision could soon be in the hands of Gov. Bobby Jindal. NEW IBERIA — The Iberia Parish School Board may have more to be thankful for following the Thanksgiving holiday if the Caneview Elementary School meets its opening date of Dec. 1. LAFAYETTE — It may look like yet another free festival in the area, however, Saturday’s third annual Latin Music Festival has an ambitious agenda on behalf of the organization behind the event. LAFAYETTE — While the state’s college graduation rates have improved in recent years, nearly a third of graduates are still choosing to leave the state for better job opportunities, according to data presented Tuesday by University of Louisiana at Lafayette President Joe Savoie. LAFAYETTE — The City-Parish Council on Tuesday adopted a $635 million budget for next year, with only one member voting against the spending plan. LAFAYETTE — The Lafayette Parish School Board is expected to extend Superintendent Burnell Lemoine’s contract and increase his salary by about $10,000 at today’s board meeting. An Opelousas man allegedly shot and killed his wife Monday evening and then called 911 to report it, later telling police that he “had had enough.” Police are looking for two men involved in the Monday armed robbery of Marino Food Mart, where a clerk was pistol-whipped. Wearing bandannas over their faces, the men entered the store at 2738 Weller Ave. at 11:10 a.m., said Sgt. Don Kelly, a police spokesman. The Acadiana Outreach Center is seeking volunteers to help out with the Garden Workday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at its downtown Lafayette campus. LAFAYETTE — Following the rules in school comes with rewards for Lafayette Parish students. Each school now has its own plan for curbing discipline problems through its positive behavior support program, which rewards students for the simple courtesies that lay the foundation of respect and order in and out of the classroom. LAFAYETTE — After two months of picking the document apart line-by-line, the City-Parish Council today is scheduled to approve a $635 million budget for next year. LAFAYETTE — A murder trial involving five defendants scheduled for Monday was continued until March and a judge ruled to sever the cases so that each defendant could stand trial separately. LAFAYETTE — The trial of a Lafayette lawyer accused of a 2007 simple rape was continued Monday until December. Scott Hawkins, of the Lafayette firm Hawkins & Villemarette, is set to stand trial Dec. 1 for the alleged simple rape of a former receptionist in March 2007. |
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