La. man indicted for smuggling cockfighting weapons
After attending an international cockfighting derby in the Philippines, Joseph Marty Toralba tried to smuggle 263 gaffs back into the country when he was arrested at the Honolulu airport. (A gaff is a metal spur strapped to a rooster's leg for a cockfight.) The Associated Press reports that the 39-year-old Colfax resident is the first to be indicted under a new federal law that makes the transportation of roosters trained for fighting or implements for cockfghting across state lines a felony. Louisiana is the last state where cockfighting is still legal, but it will outlawed in August. Toralba faces up to three years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
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.
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.
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.
Episcopal School of Acadiana’s Dr. Joshua Caffery, chair of the school’s English Department, is headed to Washington, D.C., and the Library of Congress as the latest winner of the Alan Lomax Fellowship in Folklife Studies.
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.
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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.
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