Katie Gagliano

A suspect has been arrested in a Monday morning shooting in Lafayette, the Lafayette Police Department said.

The suspected shooter in the Friday homicide at Plantation Inn committed suicide while barricaded inside a room at another Lafayette motel, the Lafayette Police Department said.

Former Breaux Bridge Police Chief Rollie Cantu was arrested Tuesday morning after investigators found he took guns from the department’s evidence room during his two terms as police chief, the

A Lafayette man wanted in connection with a fatal October shooting on Orchid Drive is also awaiting trial in a 2018 murder case.

One man was arrested, and another man is wanted in separate recent Opelousas shootings, the Opelousas Police Department said.

The suspect accused in a Nov. 22 shooting at the Plantation Inn on NE Evangeline Thruway was arrested by Lafayette police officers on Tuesday, the department said.

Over the past year, the St. Martin Parish Sheriff’s Office has invested in a fleet of drones that is allowing the department to reach new heights, both literally and figuratively.

A man found deceased in the rubble of a vacant house fire on NW Evangeline Thruway on Nov. 21 has been identified.

A man was injured in a shooting while walking along the NE Evangeline Thruway frontage road Thursday night, the Lafayette Police Department said.

StoryCorps, a nonprofit oral history project, is taking up residence in Lafayette for the next three weeks, and Acadiana residents are invited to sit down for their own recorded conversations.