A family in Lafayette was injured Tuesday night after a firework exploded in someone's hand while he was attempting to set off fireworks from a balcony at a local motel.
A fire has displaced a family in Lafayette after young children decided to burn papers in a barbecue pit that was too close to the house and did not fully extinguish the fire before leaving.
A mother and her teenage son had to get out of their Lafayette apartment on Wednesday after the oven being used to heat the living space apparently malfunctioned.