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The University of Louisiana at Lafayette’s Learning Lab has a home. The laboratory school will be housed in a two-story, roughly 70,000-square-foot building in UL Lafayette’s Research Park.
The building was previously occupied by the National Marine Fisheries Service, a federal agency of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. U.S. Sen. John Kennedy announced the building’s transfer to the University on Friday.

Unfortunately, domestic violence remains a reality endured by many.
But, for those feeling trapped, there is help.
Faith House, a non-profit domestic violence crisis center in Lafayette, aids people facing abuse from a spouse or partner. Faith House has done so for 40 years.
For nearly 30 those years,
Cindy Triche has been a part of that process. Triche, a Faith House survivor advocate for Vermilion Parish, spoke to the Rotary Club of Abbeville on Wednesday about the organization’s ongoing mission.

According to Sheriff Mike Couvillon, the Vermilion Municipal and Sheriff’s Narcotics Task Force, along with the Vermilion Parish Sheriff’s Office K-9 and Criminal Interdiction Unit made the following arrests for narcotics-related offenses within the parish.
• Rory Robinson, 36, of Kaplan, was arrested in Kaplan and charged with Possession of Schedule II, (Methamphetamine) and Possession of Schedule III, (Buprenorphine).