Vince Marinello, who was convicted of murdering his wife by a Lafayette jury last month, will be sentenced today to life in prison. The trial of the well known New Orleans sportscaster was moved to Lafayette from Jefferson Parish because of the enormous amount of publicity surrounding the murder investigation and arrest. Since his conviction, Marinello has been held in the Lafayette Parish jail. Judge Conn Regan of the 24th Judicial District Court presided over the trial and will sentence Marinello at the Lafayette Federal Courthouse. Marinello continues to maintain his innocence. The Times Picayune reports that Marinello’s attorney, Paul Fleming Jr., is expected to appeal his conviction today and ask for a new trial.
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.
Philip deMahy Sr., a once respected New Iberia ad exec, was sentenced May 2 to spend the next two years (he faced up to 100 years) in a state penitentiary after state and federal investigators found dozens of images depicting children engaged in lewd sexual acts on his personal computer.
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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