Five students were injured when their school bus crashed in Lafayette Parish, authorities said. The man last known to be seen with a University of Pittsburgh student before she vanished from a beach in the Dominican Republic gave more details to local prosecutors about the last time he saw her, Dominican news agency Noticias SIN reported.

Two school bus crashes in Lafayette Parish over the past two days have raised concerns about driver attentiveness and vehicle safety. Both incidents involved students,

A Louisiana school bus was hit when there was a crash between two other vehicles in Lafayette Parish. According to Tracy Wirtz, a spokeswoman for the Lafayette Parish School System, students were on the bus, which was running its usual route when it was hit.

The school system’s auditors have raised concerns about the way LPSS is handling construction projects as they relate to public bid laws, flagging four of them in an audit report that is expected to be presented Thursday night to school board members.