1. ‘IT DOES APPEAR IT WAS A TRAP’ An ex-con guns down two firefighters after luring them to his upstate New York neighborhood by setting a car and a house ablaze.
2. WHAT THE POPE SAID ABOUT GOD ON CHRISTMAS Benedict XVI asked that people make room for religion in their hectic, technology-driven lives.
3. GIFTS FOR GRIEVING NEWTOWN People have donated toys, books and money to the Connecticut town since the Dec. 14 school shooting.
4. CHARACTER ACTOR CHARLES DURNING DIES AT 89 Durning, a World War II hero, starred in “The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas” and “Tootsie” and was nominated twice for Oscars.
5. OBAMACARE TAX HIKES ON THE WAY The increases mainly affect the wealthy and the health care industry and kick in on Jan. 1.
6. A ‘LOST TRIBE’ MOVES TO ISRAEL Dozens of Jews who claim to be the descendants of a biblical tribe emigrated from their northeastern Indian village.
7. DOUBTS FOR A TRUCE IN SYRIA An international envoy indicates no progress had been made toward ending the civil war after meeting with Assad.
8. HOW THE PRESIDENT SPENDS CHRISTMAS VACATION Obama worked out at the Marine Corps base gym, golfed and met up with his family at a Hawaii beach.
9. A SURVIVOR OF SANDY DIES IN PUERTO RICO Dylan Smith, a 23-year-old lifeguard who used his surfboard to ferry people to safety in New York’s Rockaways , dies in a surfing accident.
10. WHAT THE AP SAID ABOUT ‘LES MISERABLES’ Movie Critic Christy Lemire says the big-screen version of the musical is “enormous and sprawling and not the slightest bit subtle.”
David Calhoun and Elizabeth “EB” Brooks are the first two employees of Lafayette Central Park Inc., the nonprofit charged with turning Lafayette Consolidated Government’s 100-acre Johnston Street Horse Farm property into a passive public park. Calhoun was named executive director, and Brooks is director of planning and design.
Is it a crime for citizens to photograph, video, or take notes of a police officer in the line of duty, or a right protected by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution? Locally, such activity, as witnessed recently, will at the very least result in a night spent behind bars.
At Thursday's State of the Economy luncheon, LEDA President and CEO Gregg Gothreaux said PXP has already quietly hired 180 people for its Broussard expansion.
There will soon be a whole lot of shakin’ going on at Benny’s Sportshack Supplement Depot, a new concept by Opelousas native Benny Nele. Located at 2002 Johnston St., the supplement shop, smoothie bar and café, featuring hot off the press paninis and wraps, plans to open in late May.
This year’s Cool Town issue is all about people who are not native to South Louisiana but made a conscious decision to be here, to be among us, to participate in our culture and contribute to it.
A shelved ordinance transferring $200,000 from a northside drainage project to a south Lafayette development may not break any laws, but it stinks to high heaven.
An effort to restore a shuttered dancehall and document other vacant or razed honky-tonks could serve as a model for saving an endangered species of entertainment.
Lafayette’s gene pool has been host to a long line of eccentric characters who have blurred the lines between crazy, genius, disturbed and curiously entertaining.