After two years awaiting trial, and two weeks of testimony, it only took two hours on Saturday for a jury to declare Vince Marinello guilty of killing his estranged wife, Liz Marinello. The New Orleans sportscaster, who has been under house arrest during this time, is now locked up in the Lafayette Parish Correctional Center, awaiting sentencing. The mandatory punishment for second degree murder is life in prison without parole. 24th Judicial District Judge Conn Regan, who tried the case, will sentence the 71 year old Marinello in January. To read the strange story that led up to the trial, click 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.
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.
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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