Iberia Parish, LA

NEW IBERIA, La. (KSLA) - A 2-year-old boy died after being left in a hot car in New Iberia on Monday, June 14, the sheriff’s office confirms. The Iberia Parish Sheriff’s Office is investigating the death, which happened Monday afternoon around 2 p.m. Deputies were called out to the 700 block of Fox Road and found the boy inside, the sheriff’s office reports.

Raymond “Shoe-Do” Lewis and his wife, Roxy, are still seeking the chance to grieve over the loss of their son, Garon, to gun violence on a hot August night in 2019. “I haven’t been able to mourn,” he said Thursday afternoon, sipping a cold Busch under the awning in front of his home off Ann Street. “There will be no closure until there is justice for the seven involved. I ask God just to let me live to see justice for all seven — the ones who fired the shots, the ones who surveilled him, the ones who laughed after he was killed. We are going to see justice in Iberia Parish at its best.”

Iberia Parish School Board members had a heated debate Wednesday regarding the policies set in place for board members to attend out of state conferences following a resolution to change the district’s policy on the matter. Legal counsel Wayne Landry said that some board members had submitted pending registration for...

After weeks of school board and committee meetings, the Iberia Parish School Board decided to award the janitorial bid for Belle Place Elementary School to Wilson’s Janitorial Service at Wednesday’s meeting. The decision came after much debate and concern about the fairness of the process regarding which of two janitorial...

NEW IBERIA, La. - A two-year-old boy died after being left in a hot car for two hours in Iberia Parish. The death occurred Monday afternoon. The child was pronounced dead on the scene by the parish coroner. The circumstances surrounding the toddler's death are currently under investigation by the...

Iberia Parish, LA (KPLC) - A 2-year-old boy died after being left in a hot car for an extended period of time Monday afternoon. Iberia Parish deputies are unsure of how long the child was left unattended. It’s the first hot car death reported in Louisiana this year, the fourth across the Nation.

It’s 11 a.m. on the second Friday of the month, and Mike Tarantino is sitting in the studio of New Iberia’s KANE radio doing what he does best: enthusiastically talking about Iberia Parish and the positive plans that are in the works for it. Since becoming President and CEO of...