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Ascension Parish is adding solar-powered beacons and rumble strips to two Stringer Bridge Road intersections that saw dozens of crashes, including one fatal wreck.
Jyree Powell was caught 25 miles away in New Roads, weeks after a teen was fatally shot at the same Groom Road store.
Hayden McKenzie, 23, was back in a Livingston Parish cell after a woman reported a 2024 assault just days after his first arrest.
Trey Sparks, 30, taught at D.C. Reeves Elementary and coached at Ponchatoula Junior High before his arrest triggered a second case in Livingston Parish.
Alton St. Julian, 51, allegedly fired at deputies before vanishing into the woods near Vinton — a manhunt ended hours later.
Abdallahi Baba died inside City Town Meat Market #3 after refusing to hand over cash early Wednesday.
Deputies say John Sinkankas stashed 18 pounds of explosive precursors at his Lake Charles home. He posted a $150,000 bond and walked free the next day.
A Bell City head-on wreck and a Sulphur I-10 pileup killed two men hours apart on the same day.
Elizabeth, Louisiana voters have no alternative on the November ballot after the only other candidate was forced out by federal law.
A gunshot victim's hospital arrival early Sunday led deputies to a Grundy Cooper subdivision shooting scene. It is the neighborhood's second firearm incident in just three months.
A Tuesday morning collision near Berwick Castle Road left one driver dead at the scene and another hospitalized.
Julian Curo-Churata, 47, died hours after guards found him in distress at a Monroe facility previously tied to a $42.75 million wrongful-death verdict.
LSU found a football player committed forcible rape, then let him keep playing. Now Baton Rouge prosecutors want the records.
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