CenLamar | Est. 2006

CenLamar Feature: Ten Under Thirty Part One of a series profiling of the work and service of ten Central Louisianans under the age of thirty. Michael D. Smith Religious Studies scholar, world traveler, humanitarian, Alexandria native. After graduating college in 2005, Michael Smith moved from Houston to New Orleans to help with disaster relief. Next month, Michael, a recent recepient of the Fulbright Scholarship, will travel across the Pacific once again (he spent over a year in Nepal as a college student) in order to conduct research on Newar and Tibetan Buddhism. 1. For those of us who don’t know,…

Amanda Gutweiler Hypes Released From Jail Today KALB: Hypes Judgment Page One, Page Two, Page Three, Page Four Points of Interest: Mike Small (who seemed all smiles when I passed by him on Jackson Street a few hours ago) relied on the testimony of three expert witnesses to explain how the investigation was botched from the beginning. The evidence was destroyed the next day when the house was razed. The State’s “theory” about how the fire spread did not account for how the children died. One witness called this the worst fire investigation he’d ever seen. Another explained that the…

LC Lawsuit Can Go To Trial “In her brief ruling, Swent dismissed some claims for no cause of action and referred others, specifically violation of academic freedom, by-laws and faculty handbook, to the merits.”