What's making news in Acadiana this morning
 | BY KATIE GAGLIANO | Staff writer and CLAIRE TAYLOR | Staff writer The Lafayette Municipal Fire and Police Civil Service Board on Tuesday opened the door for the city-parish government to reconsider how the widening use of CBD products impacts their drug policies after reinstating a Lafayette Police Department officer who failed a drug test after allegedly taking commonly available sleep drops that contained CBD hemp oil. Read more |
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 | By KEN STICKNEY | Staff writer University of Louisiana System President Jim Henderson won’t miss 2021 or the COVID-19 pandemic that plagued his nine member institutions for the calendar year. Read more |
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 | BY MEGAN WYATT | Staff writer An online fundraiser is nearing $500,000 in donations for the Jeanerette family whose lives changed forever after a wrong-way crash on Interstate 49 last weekend. Read more |
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 | By KEN STICKNEY | Staff writer It’s not a sleigh and those weren’t toys, but ShareHouse has landed an early Christmas gift that will help it deliver many needed goods to people in residential transition this season and beyond. Read more |
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 | By DAVIDE MAMONE | Staff Writer A coalition of Louisiana immigrants’ rights organizations on Thursday sent a letter to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas beseeching him to address “torturous and racially discriminatory abuses, unlawful conduct and lack of oversight within immigrant detention centers under the jurisdiction of the New Orleans Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Field Office.” Read more |
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 | BY BLAKE PATERSON and JEFF ADELSON | Staff writers Louisiana is hurtling toward a fifth surge in COVID-19 infections, and once again the state’s top health officials are urging members of the public, regardless of their vaccination status, to wear masks in indoor public settings to slow the virus’ spread and protect the vulnerable. Read more |
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