The Lafayette Cemetery received thousands of dollars in damage when a car careened into it earlier this month, and weeks later, the aftermath remains on full display at a prominent city intersection.
City officials expect the Lafayette Cemetery to soon bear a new memorial plaque that will honor the individuals buried in unmarked graves. At the Tuesday evening Lafayette City Council meeting, Deputy ...
LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY) — A Lafayette woman is speaking out after she says a Lafayette cemetery buried her mother in the wrong spot. News Ten has learned it’s the same cemetery where similar mistakes ...
Lafayette’s oldest cemetery will host a night tour on All Saints Day, a ready opportunity for people to learn about the ancient grounds and Catholic traditions of burying the dead. “Above Ground: A ...
LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY) — Lafayette Police have cited a suspect who drove a truck through the gates of the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist Cemetery, desecrating several graves. Ronnez Jermaul ...
Lafayette Cemetery No. 1, the final resting place for some 7,000 people in a single city block off Washington Avenue, is one of the Garden District's most popular tourist destinations. But people ...
City officials said Monday that repairs to Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 are scheduled to begin in early 2020 and take around five months to complete. The cemetery in the Garden District has been closed ...
A vampire lies in the Lafayette Cemetery on Baseline Road – that is, if you believe the local lore. Theodore Glava, who was born in Transylvania and moved to Lafayette as a coal miner in the early ...
A Lafayette cemetery has fallen victim to thieves coming and stealing bronze vases from gravesites. Oakland Memorial Park's general manager said someone stole and ripped out close to 200 vases from ...
TEXAS, USA — Have you always been intrigued by the history of old Louisiana? Is the history of a cemetery something that leaves you open for the mystery of what lies behind it? If so, then maybe ...
LAFAYETTE – The ornamental gates leading into the Greenbush Cemetery include the inscription, scrolled across the green metal along North 12th Street: “Here rest our old settlers.” After nearly a ...
(KRON) — About 200 bronze vases were stolen from a cemetery in the East Bay, the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office said Wednesday. The vases were stolen from Oakland Memorial Park at 2099 Valley ...