Graduation

All five Lafayette Parish high schools will hold graduation ceremonies Saturday at the Cajundome. Handicapped slots are available in the Cajundome lot and will be available on a first come, first served basis. Shuttles will be available. All ceremonies will be on livestream.com.

The Edna Karr High School graduates of 2016 went out in style during their commencement ceremony that has now gone viral.

A guy who thought he was in line to go to the restroom at his sister's graduation accidentally went through the whole ceremony. Thankfully for us, he documented the whole thing!

A family in New Orleans recently celebrated graduation with photos and now their success and photo has gone viral.

Don't settle for what you're supposed to be, excel until you find out who you were meant to be. Take chances and feel the emotions of every single day. Don't let anyone who doesn't believe in you the way you believe in yourself be a part of your life.

Mason, our Kindergarten grad, had to announce at his awards ceremony what he wants to be when he grows up and he did not disappoint.

Spring Commencement is today for University of Louisiana Lafayette graduates. Ceremonies will take place in Lafayette's Cajundome and Convention Center

East Ascension High School graduation was marred by parents and friends fighting in the stands during the ceremony.

Nicholas and Christian Peltier were killed in a car accident on Wednesday morning and later that night, their school remembered them at Westgate's graduation.

A former college football player, Chris Norton, was paralyzed while playing football in 2010 and doctors gave him a very slim chance of ever regaining his strength. Well, last Sunday, he WALKED across the stage at his graduation to accept his diploma.

A young lady thought that it would be a good idea to wear 5-inch heels to her high school graduation---BAD IDEA!!

The principal at TNT Academy's High School graduation in Lilburn, Georgia made a racist comment when she stood before the audience to address a disturbance.

Watching those who serve our country overseas surprise family members upon their return never gets old. Watch as this Marine Corporal surprises his mom on her graduation day and is there to present her with her diploma.

A father dying in Alabama wanted to his son graduate high school, so Mortimer Jordan High School held an impromptu graduation ceremony to fulfill his wish.

WLOX.com - The News for South Mississippi 18-years ago a firefighter, Charlie Hefman, found a new born baby in a cemetery and turned the baby over to paramedics. Fast forward 18-years since that cold morning in Champagne, Illinois and now the two are meeting each other for the first time after a graduation ceremony.

Charles "Peanut" Tillman, current Chicago Bear and former UL Ragin' Cajun, has been announced as the commencement speaker at UL's graduation on May 17th.

Like most high school students, Vanessa Jasmin Garcia has always looked forward to walking down the aisle to receive a high school diploma. Unfortuantley, Vanessa was diagnosed with a brain tumor in elementary school and she has had to overcome so many obstacles while trying to graduate from high school.

There is no other way to put this, but this is "Fricken Awesome." Watch how one graduate fooled the announcer at the recent GVSU Commencement Ceremony into announcing her last name as "Fricken Awesome."

Although he was run over by a car at 14-months-old and paralyzed from the waist down, Patrick Ivison didn’t let his disability stop him. In fact, the California native learned how to kayak, ski, play rugby and even surf. And now he has one more amazing feat to add to his accomplishments after managing to walk during his high school graduation on Tuesday.

South Carolina parents attending a high school graduation at the Florence Civic Center in South Florence last Saturday were warned in advance not to cheer for their children as they received their diplomas or they’d risk being thrown out of the ceremony. Well, one particularly proud mother choose not heed the warning and cheered, anyway. And, boy, did she pay the price.