North Vermilion's Cinderella run to quarterfinals ended by West Feliciana

Jack LeBlanc is in his 12th year as athletic director and second season as girls basketball coach at North Vermilion High School. While the Patriots have reached the quarterfinals during his stint at the school, the current group could have the ingredients to go further. "The goal at the beginning...

Breaux Bridge needed five unanswered points in the last 1:30 of their district road opener to squeak past Beau Chene 45-44 on Wednesday night. The win saw the Tigers improve to (13-7) on the season and the Gators fell to (16-12), despite holding Breaux Bridge to their fourth lowest point total this season.

Considering how good both St. Thomas More and Lafayette Christian Academy's boys basketball teams are defensively, Cougars head coach Danny Broussard entered the game expecting a low-scoring contest. He was right. However, it was St. Thomas More's defense that stole the show in the final four minutes of the game...

When it all came down to one — as in one free throw — Shalia Forman of Southern Lab gave herself a talking to. “If we lost this game, I knew I would be letting everybody down,” Forman said. "After I missed the first free throw, I had to get myself together.

Port Allen found itself in another close game Wednesday and once again made enough plays to earn a win against a good team. The Pelicans, top team in the LHSAA's Division III nonselect power ratings, outscored visiting Liberty 17-7 in the first seven-plus minutes of the fourth quarter to pick up a 47-40 nondistrict win.

Comeaux: Magnolia Carrier 151, Jaylee Ledoux 173, Elise Patin 223. High series: Patin 651. BBHS: Jonathan Latiolais 129, Aiden Shaw 130, Justin Latiolais 125. High series: Jonathan Latiolais 378. GIRLS. Lafayette High 22, Southside 5. Lafayette: Ainsley Lerille 150, Whitney D’Elia 132, Zoe Domingue 123. High series: D’Elia 351....

Among those who graduated from Hinds Community College in Mississippi in Fall 2022 are William Martin, of Wilson, and Skylar Dibenedetto, of St. Francisville. More than 850 students graduated from Hinds Community College in one of two ceremonies Dec. 15 at the Muse Center on the Rankin Campus. Hinds awarded nearly 1,300 credentials as many students will earn more than one credential.

At least four tornadoes touched down in several Louisiana locations as storms swept across the state on Tuesday, including a 90-mph EF-1 twister that damaged three mobile homes in Ventress, sending three residents to a local hospital. On Thursday morning, the Lake Charles National Weather Service office reported that three...

Strong winds, heavy rain and thunderstorms led to minor power outages and damage to the Baton Rouge metro area Tuesday night as a tornado watch that went into effect earlier in the day was dropped around 9 p.m. On Tuesday morning, the National Weather Service in New Orleans placed at...

Joseph "Joe" Dennis, 94, a long-time volunteer and activist in the Black community, died Sunday at his Lafayette home. The soft-spoken Korean War veteran worked in a salt mine for 35 years before retiring, according to his obituaty. Some people who knew Dennis and considered him a friend and mentor, don't even know what he did for a living. It was his work in the Black community that made Dennis a leader.

Lafayette Parish public schools will be closing early today based on the latest weather reports. High schools will begin dismissing at 11:30 a.m. Elementary schools will dismiss beginning at 12:15 p.m. Middle schools will begin dismissing at 1 p.m. All after-school activities also are canceled. Much of Acadiana is under...

Not long into the new year, Sunderia Steptoe, of Amite, celebrated the arrival of not one but two babies. At 3:19 a.m. on New Year’s Day, girl Amira Washington was born; one minute later, her twin brother Amir Washington was born. The twins share the title of “Baby New Year 2023” as the first babies born at North Oaks Medical Center in 2023.

The schedules for West and East Feliciana Council on Aging facilities are as follows:. 12292 Jackson Road, St. Francisville, (225) 635-6719. Start time for all activities is 10 a.m. First and third Monday: Line dance. Fourth Monday: Religious service. Tuesdays: Nutrition education. Wednesdays: Exercise/yoga. Thursdays: Bible study. Fridays: Bingo/movie/excursion. All...

Two Louisiana teachers were each presented with a $25,000 Milken Educator Award during surprise ceremonies Tuesday in Port Allen and Prairieville. Elise Frederic, a first-grade teacher at Lakeside Elementary School in Prairieville, received the award, sometimes called the “Oscars of teaching,” for her innovative literacy teaching style. Dereka Duncan, a fifth-grade science teacher at Cohn Elementary in Port Allen, where she once went to school herself, received the award for her engaging yet challenging lessons and her dedication to the community.

Actor and comedian Adam Devine will reign over the 2023 Krewe of Bacchus, according to krewe captain Clark Brennan. Devine is from Waterloo, Iowa, but his wife is a Louisiana native. In 2021, Devine married actress Chloe Bridges, who is from Houma. As Bacchus LIV, Devine will lead the parade...

Three people were injured and transported to a hospital after three mobiles homes were hit by storms in Louisiana, according to the Pointe Coupee Sheriff's Office. in Pointe Coupee Parish. One unoccupied mobile home flipped and two others were totaled by the storm. The sheriff's office said a tornado touched down in the area.

A 46-year-old Abbeville woman was killed in a crash near the intersection of Verot School and West Pinhook roads early Tuesday. Lafayette Parish Sheriff’s Office deputies responded near the intersection around 1:06 a.m. after an accident was reported and found 46-year-old Dana Hulin of Abbeville dead at the scene. Investigators determined Hulin’s compact SUV crossed the center lane into oncoming traffic and collided with a Chevrolet pickup truck, the department said in a statement.

A state trooper was injured Tuesday in a crash on Interstate 49 in Grand Coteau, according to Louisiana State Police. The trooper had stopped his vehicle because of debris in the road from a previous crash, and was about to get out of his unit when he was rear-ended, troopers say.

The Louisiana legislative auditor’s investigation of Lafayette Consolidated Government has Mayor-President Josh Guillory’s administration facing financial straits over $30 million in reimbursements the state government is withholding, at least until the investigation is complete. Louisiana Division of Administration spokesman Jacques Berry confirms that roughly $30 million in reimbursements...

More than six years after Rodney Tolliver’s life sentence in a 1985 murder case was vacated, the Lafayette man may finally receive a new sentence. Tolliver, now 54, was sentenced in 2007 to life imprisonment without parole by a unanimous jury after being convicted of second-degree murder in 1985. The victim, 70-year-old Yolande Theriot, was found raped and murdered in her home, where investigators believe she was suffocated with a pillow following a sexual assault, according to court records.