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Scott Brazda

Reporter · US

Indexed articles, last 90 days
16
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Oct 2, 2026
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Aug 29, 2026

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  1. Article · Oct 2, 2026 · Scott Brazda

    UL System Board member floats dropping Cajuns to lower division; later walks it back (opens the original)

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    LAFAYETTE, La. (Acadiana News First) - A University of Louisiana System Board of Regents member suggested UL, Louisiana Tech, and the University of Louisiana at Monroe could drop from Division I to Division I-AA to help address multimillion-dollar athletic deficits, though he later described the comment as off-the-cuff. Board member Wilbert Pryor raised the idea during the system board’s most recent meeting as members examined athletic deficits across UL System schools. Every school in the syste

  2. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · Scott Brazda

    ANF Investigates: 2 accusers say same Lafayette officer used excessive force in separate incidents (opens the original)

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    LAFAYETTE, La. (Acadiana News First) - A Lafayette mother and another woman are accusing the same Lafayette Police Department officer of using excessive force in two separate incidents, and they say department leadership needs to take action. Amanda Broussard and Elizabeth Rhinehart came forward publicly with their accounts, alleging that LPD Officer Trevor Cheney used unnecessary violence during encounters that left Broussard’s teenage son and Rhinehart injured. “This can’t be the first inciden

  3. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · Scott Brazda

    Lafayette Metro Expressway Commission meets after years of inactivity, reviving plans for loop (opens the original)

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    LAFAYETTE, La. (Acadiana News First) - The Lafayette Metropolitan Expressway Commission met for the first time in years, reviving discussion of the long-planned Lafayette Loop as officials point to growth tied to SpaceX’s spaceport project in Pecan Island. “This project has been going on since 2003, and we had started to bring this project back up to speed before we knew about SpaceX,” Elaine Abelle, the commission’s chair, said. The proposed loop would connect several major highways around Lafa

  4. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Scott Brazda

    SpaceX Starship launch in Texas offers glimpse of Acadiana’s future (opens the original)

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    BROWNSVILLE, Texas (Acadiana News First) - SpaceX successfully launched its next-generation Starship rocket from Starbase in Texas, offering a preview of what could soon come to Acadiana as a similar spaceport takes shape in Pecan Island. The 407-foot rocket, carrying 26 Starlink satellites, lifted off from SpaceX’s Starbase operation near Brownsville on Monday, Sept. 28. The flight lasted about three hours, falling short of the roughly 10-hour mission SpaceX had hoped to achieve. Despite the sh

  5. Article · Sep 24, 2026 · Scott Brazda

    Sheriffs in Evangeline, St. Landry parishes target inmate drug addiction (opens the original)

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    (Acadiana News First) - Sheriffs in Evangeline and St. Landry parishes are confronting a growing number of addicted inmates behind bars, with one sheriff estimating that most of his jail’s population struggles with opioid addiction. Evangeline Parish Sheriff Charles Guillory said inmates have used unconventional methods to get high behind bars, including tearing pages from a Bible to roll cigarettes. RELATED: Evangeline Parish inmates accused of using Bible to make cigarettes “Mainly using a Bib

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