Governor John Bel Edwards announced this week that Dolly Parton's Imagination Library book gifting program is expanding statewide. The program is designed to inspire a love of reading by providing access to free, high-quality, age-appropriate books to children between the ages of 0 and 5 years old.
LAFAYETTE, La. (KPEL News) - An Acadiana man convicted of sexually exploiting a 12-year-old girl will spend the next three decades behind bars.
According to a press release by the U.S. Attorney's Office, 40-year-old Jason Eric Lott began a relationship with the child and, with the child's parents unaware, started engaging in sexual acts with the girl...