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Lafayette Reads Together, the Lafayette Public Library's community-wide reading program, has selected its book for 2022. Abby Breidenbach had more on GMA about this year's book.

It took her two months to write, memorize, and present her final speech, but for one Ascension Episcopal seventh-grader the work paid off. Scott Brazda spoke with the award-winning public speaker in this Spirit of Acadiana.

Festivals Acadiens et Créoles  is returning to Lafayette with two festivals in 2022.

Two schools in Breaux Bridge are on lock down while police search for a suspect.

A man has been arrested in connection to a string a robberies at businesses in Opelousas and Acadiana.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection specialists in New Orleans seized more than 500 prohibited aquatic items from a couple returning from a seven-day cruise in the western carribean. Items included shells, corals and sponges.

A St. Mary Parish woman has been permanently barred from working as a tax preparer in Louisiana after pleading guilty to multiple fraud charges.

As of January 25, the number of total coronavirus cases reported in Louisiana increased by a record of 9,104 and there have been 102 new deaths, according to the Louisiana Department of Health.

The Lafayette Parish Sheriff's Office says they are elevating its crime-fighting capabilities with the implementation of a real time crime center.

One person was killed Sunday night during an officer-involved shooting on Pinhook Road in Lafayette. Louisiana State Police are investigating the incident.