Opening statements began Thursday morning in the second-degree murder trial of Erron Fontenot — accused of shooting James ...

An Idaho man has been convicted of killing his wife and his new girlfriend’s two youngest kids in a strange triple murder ...

Southwest Louisiana will continue to have “an active and unstable weather pattern” for the remainder of the week into the ...

Special to the American Press Sowela Technical Community College recently received funding from the Louisiana Board of ...

Louisiana could soon become the first state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom — in another expansion of religion into day-to-day life by a ...

The jury in former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial resumed deliberations Thursday after revisiting portions of the ...

Special to the American Press The Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s Office is participating in the national “Click It or Ticket” campaign with grant funding from the Louisiana Highway Safety Commission. The ...

A vehicle has been pulled from the waters near Old Highway 90/Burnout Bridge where the body of a man was recovered earlier this week. Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Kayla Vincent said ...

For the third, and hopefully, final time before the season actually kicks off, McNeese State’s football schedule for the ...

Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s Office Special Victims Unit detectives received a report from the Department of Children & Family Services in reference to a 7-month-old child who was neglected by her ...

DeQuincy High School state champion saddle bronc rider Wyatt Lavergne hit the amateur rodeo circuit this season to up his ...

Lake Charles Police said two people have been hospitalized with gunshot wounds following a shooting Wednesday afternoon in ...