LAFAYETTE — Lafayette police shot and killed a suspect during a Monday incident. It happened at 2:13 p.m. at the intersection of State Street and South 23rd Street, southeast of downtown. According to Lafayette Police Department Sgt. Mike Brown, officers responded to a 911 call of a man with a gun. When police got to […]

Officials say a Lafayette school bus carrying special needs kids rolled over on Interstate 65 Thursday afternoon. The semi was changing lanes Thursday afternoon when it struck the bus, which went into the median and rolled over. Police on the scene say five kids and seven adults are injuries. All are non-life threatening injuries. Methodist […]

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Recently, the people of Lafayette, Indiana learned that a small cottage that once stood at 1009 Cincinnati Street was more than an abandoned building – it was a historic AME church for the free black slave community. Built in the early 19th century, blacks owned the Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church from 1846 to 1866. […]