LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY)- If you're over 15 years of age and looking for a job, McDonalds is hosting a hiring event. For crew, you can receive $2,500 a year and for managers you can get $3,000 a year for college tuition. Management positions are also available. At the St. Martinville location, McDonald's will be interviewing [...]
Wednesday is off to a milder and humid start across Acadiana with temperatures this morning in the mid 60s. Another warm and breezy afternoon is expected today with highs back in the upper 70s to lower 80s under a mostly cloudy sky. Southerly winds will gust to near 30 mph at times. A few showers [...]
SCOTT, La. (KLFY) Firefighters were on the scene of a house explosion late Tuesday in Lafayette Parish. It happened around 7:30 p.m. at a home on Lloyd Street in Scott. Fire officials tell News 10 that another house nearby caught fire as well, however that home received minor damages. There were no injuries reported.
LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY) -- A $3.5M project to improve drainage in Lafayette and St. Martin Parishes is being studied by the Lafayette Consolidated Government which could start in just a few months. It looks at the impact removing spoil banks would have along the Vermilion River and Cypress Island. The Vermilion River currently has to [...]
DUSON, La. (KLFY) A 27-year-old Duson mother has been arrested on charges of second degree cruelty to a juvenile following an incident that injured her son on April 1. According to police, Samantha Doucet allowed her 8-year-old son to light a bonfire unattended. Police said the child was injured, but his mother "failed to seek [...]
LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY) Airbnb owners in Lafayette will be watching the outcome of an upcoming meeting very closely. One of their own is under fire for being in a neighborhood zoned for residential single-family homes. Erin Bass, the co-owner of an Airbnb on Poinsette Street, sits at the heart of the issue. On Thursday, Bass [...]
Lafayette, La. (KLFY) A student at UL Lafayette created an online petition pushing for the university to allow students to choose a pass or fail option for their classes. The university allowed this in the fall 2020 semester saying it was because of the hurricanes. "There was some misunderstanding I think that we would just [...]
LOREAUVILLE, La. (KLFY) -- Iberia Parish sheriff's deputies are investigating a crash that happened near Loreauville Tuesday morning that took the life of a child. The crash occurred on Harold Landry Rd. at around 11 a.m. Iberia Parish Sheriff's Office Public Information Officer Dep. Katherine Breaux said the office is not currently releasing much information [...]
LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY) The head public defender for the 15th Judicial District Indigent Defender's Office is facing a gender discrimination lawsuit filed by a former employee. She says her boss fired her from the public defender's office after she reported his inappropriate comments to human resources. Jami Pellerin says her boss, G. Paul Marx, repeatedly [...]
A former St. Landry Parish sheriff's deputy was convicted in New Mexico of incest after he had sex with a teenage relative. Leon Boudreaux was found guilty after a jury trial last month, according to court filings. He faces up to three years in prison, his attorney, Lisa Torraco, said in an email. Boudreaux was [...]