LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY) -- Fishermen and fishery-related businesses across the country are soon to receive millions in CARES Act funding, but is Louisiana getting its fair share of the $255 million? The Bayou State is receiving about 4.9% of the available funds despite being one of the top fisheries in the nation. In 2020, five [...]
ABBEVILLE, La. (KLFY) -- An Abbeville man is behind bars on a charge of principal to second-degree murder after a shooting homicide April 9 in the 900 block of E. Lafayette St. According to Abbeville Police Lt. Jonathan Touchet, Jordan Tyler Matthews, 30, of Abbeville, was located by Lafayette Parish sheriff's deputies and arrested on [...]
LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY) -- One man has been arrested, and another is being sought in connection with the April 9 shooting a Bourgeois Park that killed John Mitchell Sinegal Jr., according to the University of Louisiana at Lafayette Police Department. Jayvien Jawane James Mallery, 20, was arrested at around 1:30 p.m. today by by St. [...]
PORT FOURCHON, La. (KLFY) -- The U.S. Coast Guard announced that two more members of the Seacor Power crew were recovered Friday evening, though both were described as "unresponsive." Out of respect for privacy of the family members involved, the Coast Guard said it is not releasing the names of those rescued, recovered or missing. [...]
THIBODAUX, La. (KLFY) -- Funeral services for the captain of the Seacor Power, David Anthony Ledet, 63, have been set for Wednesday, April 21 at Thibodaux Funeral Home in Thibodeaux. Visitation will be held April 21 at the funeral home from 9 a.m. until the Funeral Service at noon. Burial will follow at St. Charles [...]
ST. MARTINVILLE, La. (KLFY) -- Deputies with the St. Martin Parish Sheriff’s Office are asking for the public’s assistance in locating a runaway teen last seen Wednesday, April 14. Jasmine Hernandez, 16, of Arnaudville was last seen at her residence in the 1000 block of Olivier Road. Hernandez was last seen wearing a light blue [...]
LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY) - James Devin Moncus was born on September 29, 1939, in Houston, Tx. He was a United States Marine. In the 1960s, he came to Lafayette to work offshore. Starting in the early 70s, and over the next few decades, he built and grew his businesses. He sold his company, Devin International, [...]
LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY) - The crew members who were on board the Seacor Power lift boat had little time to prepare for what became a deadly boat disaster in the Gulf of Mexico Tuesday. The director of the Marine Survival Training Center at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Terry Crownover, said this was a [...]
BALDWIN, La. (KLFY) -- Attorneys for 15-year-old Quawan "Bobby" Charles' family say his parents are not angry that Janet Irvin, the woman arrested for her involvement in their child's death, was recently released from jail. Janet Irvin bonded out of the Iberia Parish Jail Thursday after a judge lowered her bond by over $300,000 earlier [...]