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Fifteenth Judicial District Court Judge Durwood W. Conque said Tuesday that he will not seek re-election this fall, and will retire in December of 2014.
Elected in 1987, Judge Conque has served the parishes of Acadia, Lafayette and Vermilion for the past 27 years.

Call it what you will, but the Louisiana College Board of Trustees today moved embattled president Joe Aguillard off the front lines.
The board announced Aguillard will become president emeritus and the search will begin immediately for his successor.

LSU has named Todd Queen as the new dean of the College of Music & Dramatic Arts. Queen is a professor of voice and the chair of the Department of Music, Theatre and Dance in the College of Liberal Arts at Colorado State University.

United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that former child psychiatrist Gary Jefferson Byrd, 72, of Opelousas was sentenced on Friday by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth E.

Colorado State University climatologists predict nine named storms, including three hurricanes, in the Atlantic hurricane season this year.
Phil Klotzbach and William Gray forecast that only one of the three hurricanes will be major, with sustained winds greater than 110 mph.