Facing a simple rape felony charge, Lafayette attorney Scott Hawkins entered a guilty plea yesterday to second-degree battery. The lesser charge is also a felony.
District Judge Glennon Everett sentenced the 35-year-old Hawkins & Villamerette attorney to a five-year suspended sentence and three years probation.
Hawkins was accused of raping a former receptionist after a party at his law firm in March of last year. The trial was set to begin yesterday, but Hawkins chose to accept a plea agreement from the DA. The woman claimed she awoke on a couch at the office after the party and found Hawkins, who had been drinking, on top of her.
The Advocate reported today that the Office of Disciplinary Counsel will begin to seek Hawkin’s immediate interim suspension from the practice of law based on the facts of the case. Read The Advocate story here.
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.
There will soon be a whole lot of shakin’ going on at Benny’s Sportshack Supplement Depot, a new concept by Opelousas native Benny Nele. Located at 2002 Johnston St., the supplement shop, smoothie bar and café, featuring hot off the press paninis and wraps, plans to open in late May.
Plains Exploration and Production, the Houston company Flores has been running since 2002, is building a deepwater Gulf of Mexico warehouse and storage facility on Bernard Road in Broussard.
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.
A shelved ordinance transferring $200,000 from a northside drainage project to a south Lafayette development may not break any laws, but it stinks to high heaven.
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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