Lafayette

Man accused of exposing gentials to elderly woman

Posted 1:47 PM 1/27/2012 by Tonya LaCoste

Lafayette Parish sheriff's deputies arrested a man they say exposed himself to an elderly woman. Deputies received a call yesterday from a woman in the 400 block of Bradford St. in Carencro after she saw a man pull his pants down and expose his genitals. She saw him as she was looking out one of (More)

Acadia

Can you identify this man and his car? Wanted in home burglaries in four parishes

Posted 11:51 AM 1/27/2012 by Tonya LaCoste

Acadia Parish Sheriff's deputies are asking for help identifying this man who was caught on camera while breaking into a home on Bosco Highway on the border of Acadia and St. Landry Parishes. They believe he's responsible for numerous break-ins and thefts in the parish, and in Lafayette (More) • Photos (3)

National News

IRS Launch Outreach Campaign to Low- and Moderate-Income Workers

Posted 11:19 AM 1/27/2012 by Melissa Canone

The Internal Revenue Service and community partners nationwide today launched their annual outreach campaign aimed at helping millions of Americans who earned $49,078 or less take advantage of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC).

Today, Earned Income Tax Credit Awareness Day, local (More)

Lafayette

Carencro police arrest man accused of stealing car and breaking into others

Posted 11:17 AM 1/27/2012 by Tonya LaCoste

A man arrested in Carencro yesterday is accused of stealing a vehicle, trying to steal another and stealing items from two other vehicles in Carencro. The vehicle was stolen in the 700 block of Potier Road. Officers spotted the suspect on the road and tried to pull him over, but the man gave (More)

Lafayette

J.W. James Students Receive Books at School

Posted 11:16 AM 1/27/2012

Dozens of students at J. Wallace James received books that were donated by Barnes and Noble and partners throughout the community. The story airs tonight at 5:00!

Lafayette

Man arrested on business property in Scott

Posted 10:19 AM 1/27/2012 by Tonya LaCoste

Scott police arrested a man they say was trespassing at a business around 11:00 Thursday night. Police were called to Louisiana Southwest Scrap after a video alarm showed two people on the property. "Upon arrival, Scott Police Department Officers and Lafayette Parish Sheriff's Office Deputies set (More)

Lafayette

Lafayette firefigthers graduate

Posted 10:01 AM 1/27/2012

Lafayette firefighter recruits are graduating this morning at Louis F. Babin Institute of Fire Training in Lafayette.

National News

Free Tax Help Available Nationwide

Posted 10:00 AM 1/27/2012

WASHINGTON - Over 12,000 free tax preparation sites will be open nationwide this year as the Internal Revenue Service continues to expand its partnerships with nonprofit and community organizations providing vital tax preparation services for low- to moderate-income and elderly taxpayers.

(More)

News - State

Hargrove new head of La emergency care network

Posted 9:53 AM 1/27/2012 by AP

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - The Louisiana Emergency Response Network has hired Louisiana's Medicaid programs manager as its new executive director. The network's board of directors said Thursday that before working for the state Department of Health and Hospitals, Paige B. Hargrove was medical (More)

National News

'Barefoot Bandit' to be sentenced in federal court

Posted 9:43 AM 1/27/2012 by AP

SEATTLE (AP) - "Barefoot Bandit" Colton Harris-Moore is scheduled to be sentenced Friday in a Seattle federal courtroom for his two-year international crime spree of break-ins and boat and plane thefts. The 20-year-old pleaded guilty last month to his state crimes and was sentenced to (More)

News - State

Baton Rouge, France pursue partnership

Posted 9:41 AM 1/27/2012 by AP

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Baton Rouge Mayor-President Melvin "Kip" Holden and Consul General of France Jean-Claude Brunet have begun the groundwork for a proposed partnership between the city and France that would extend a pact reached nearly four years ago. Holden said Thursday that he and (More)

Education

Obama decries rising cost of college education

Posted 9:39 AM 1/27/2012 by AP

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) - President Barack Obama says colleges and universities must be held accountable for the rising cost of higher education. Speaking at the University of Michigan, Obama says the government cannot just keep subsidizing student aid. He says every college and (More)

National News

Report: Electronic health records still need work

Posted 9:37 AM 1/27/2012 by AP

WASHINGTON (AP) - America may be a technology-driven nation, but the health care system's conversion from paper to computerized records needs lots of work to get the bugs out, according to experts who spent months studying the issue. Hospitals and doctors' offices increasingly are (More)

National News

NYPD boss won't take questions on probe of son

Posted 9:31 AM 1/27/2012 by AP

NEW YORK (AP) - The police commissioner's TV show host son is accused of sexually assaulting and impregnating a woman. Some activists are calling for the commissioner's resignation for appearing in a film they call anti-Muslim. And the CIA is pulling an operative out of his unusual assignment at (More)

History

Today in History 01.27.12

Posted 9:28 AM 1/27/2012 by AP

Today is Friday, Jan. 27, the 27th day of 2012. There are 339 days left in the year.

Today's Highlight in History:

On Jan. 27, 1967, astronauts Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, Edward H. White and Roger B. Chaffee died in a flash fire during a test aboard their Apollo spacecraft.

On (More)

Member Center

Continuous News: Leave page up for the latest, all day

STORMTRACKER WEATHER

KATC.com is Social!

KATC Videos

KATC Quick Links