Opelousas, LA

Baton Rouge, LA

After six months of searching, Baton Rouge police arrested a man accused of a deadly shooting earlier this month who they believe may be connected to multiple other violent offenses. Rashawn Alexander, 20, was booked on counts of first-degree murder, carrying a concealed weapon by a person prohibited and distribution...

Man arrested in Alliquippa Street killing is suspect in other crimes, police say

Donaldsonville, LA

An Ascension Parish worker was arrested after urinating in the water supply for several thousand people in the Donaldsonville area on at least two separate occasions, authorities said Thursday. Parish officials said at no time was the public in danger and samples show the water quality is "in good standing...

Worker accused of urinating twice in Ascension water supply is fired, arrested

The shooting deaths of a man and woman Tuesday night were ruled a murder-suicide, the coroner's office said Wednesday morning. The victims were identified as Linda Patterson and Walter Glasper. Baton Rouge police said it's believed Glasper, 58, shot Patterson, 59, then turned the gun on himself. Both died at...

Deadly double shooting Tuesday night was a murder-suicide, officials says

Two people were injured in separate shootings two hours apart in Baton Rouge on Thursday morning, officials say. At 7:25 a.m., Emergency Medical Services brought one person to the hospital from a shooting in the 2800 block of Lorraine Street, EMS spokesperson Brad Harris said. At 9:30 a.m., EMS brought...

Two wounded in shootings within two hours in Baton Rouge on Thursday morning, officials say

Two people were killed in a shooting on Adams Avenue, according to an Emergency Medical Services spokesperson. The shooting happened Tuesday night at 2020 Adams Ave. Officers responded to a call made at 8:28 p.m. The victims are an unidentified man and woman, according to a Baton Rouge police spokesperson.

Man and woman killed in shooting on Adams Avenue, BRPD says

Louisiana State

Calcasieu Parish, LA

Lafayette, LA

Louisiana State Police investigators have turned over the case of missing Lafayette woman Ella Goodie to the Calcasieu Parish District Attorney’s Office. Trooper Derek Senegal, spokesperson for State Police’s Troop D, said the case was turned over to Calcasieu Parish District Attorney Stephen Dwight’s office March 17. Goodie’s case was reclassified as a homicide about two months after her disappearance on March 9, 2022, when she was last seen while taking a rideshare client to Texas.

Ella Goodie disappearance case turned over to Calcasieu District Attorney’s Office

Florida State

A Florida man traveling with his family back home from Oklahoma went missing Wednesday after he began feeling unwell and checked into a downtown hotel with his family, a Baton Rouge Police spokesperson said. Jody Bert, 44, had dropped his family off at a downtown hotel, and went to park,...

Florida man missing from downtown Baton Rouge after checking into hotel with family, police say

Carencro, LA

A Carencro woman was killed in a head-on crash on the I-49 Frontage Road Monday morning. Maria B. Felton, 59, was driving north on the NW frontage road of I-49 in a 2015 Infiniti QX60 when a 2018 Nissan Titan pickup heading south, driven by Branden Lundy of Morgan City, crossed the centerline and struck Felton’s Infiniti head-on, Louisiana State Police Trooper Thomas Gossen said in a statement.

Carencro woman killed in head-on crash on I-49 frontage road

A pedestrian was struck by a vehicle on Camellia Boulevard Wednesday morning, Lafayette Police said. The crash happened in the 1400 block of Camellia Boulevard near Starling Lane around 8 a.m. A pedestrian was struck by a vehicle and suffered a severe leg injury from the crash. The pedestrian was taken to a local hospital, where he was listed in stable condition, Lafayette Police spokesperson Lt. Jace Quebedeaux said in a statement.

Lafayette pedestrian suffers severe leg injury after being struck by vehicle on Camellia Boulevard

Matthew Fortenberry loved basketball, and earlier this month his school team had won a championship. His Glen Oaks Park Elementary School team was supposed to be honored at Wednesday’s Metro Council meeting. Instead, his parents and Baton Rouge leaders stood in the council chambers to announce a funeral expense...

An 11-year-old's funeral fund and a Baton Rouge father's plea: 'Something's got to change'

A former Lafayette doctor convicted in 1998 of attempted murder for injecting his former mistress with HIV-tainted blood has died. Ken Pastorick, spokesperson for the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, confirmed that Richard J. Schmidt, 74, died at a Baton Rouge hospital Feb. 12. Schmidt was still in Department of Corrections custody at the time of his death, serving a 50-year sentence at Elayn Hunt Correctional Center in St. Gabriel, Pastorick said.

Ex-Lafayette doctor convicted of injecting former mistress with HIV-tainted blood dies

New Orleans, LA

Signing up clients without their knowledge, endorsing a check without authorization and misrepresenting themselves to insurers — these are just some of the questionable practices Houston-based law firm McClenny, Moseley and Associates is accused of in Louisiana and has, in part, admitted to in court. And judging from a...

‘Ego and greed’: New Orleans federal judge tears into troubled Texas law firm

A mobile home park in Lafayette has sold for $3.8 million last month, records show. Stanley Communities, led by Lafayette partners Kris Hodges and Michael Hyatt, bought the 14.48-acre, 109-space Oak Park Estates, 1717 Eraste Landry Road, for from the Kelley family, land records show. The group now owns 20 properties, 14 of which are in Acadiana.

Stanley Communities buys mobile home park in Lafayette for $3.8 million

The space in downtown Lafayette that recently housed Tula Tacos + Amigos will have a new occupant. The Flats, under the ownership of Pop’s Poboys owners Collin and Jasmyn Cormier and Blanchard’s BBQ owners Matt and Kissy Blanchard, will open in the 2,200-square-foot space at 427 Jefferson St. following after its predecessor closed in November.

Local restaurant owners behind new hamburger-themed restaurant in downtown Lafayette

Negotiations have broken down with the owners of property on Louisiana Avenue that was selected as the site for a new Northeast Regional Library, leaving officials looking at other sites, including the former Holy Rosary Institute. The Lafayette Parish Library Board of Control in August voted to accept a proposal...

Negotiations to buy land for NE Lafayette library fail; search on for new site

CARENCRO - It's time for local track and field programs to start getting focused on the season's stretch run, and today's Parish Meet at Carencro will help that vision get sharper. Carencro and Teurlings Catholic figure to set the pace in boys' competition, while perennial favorite Lafayette High is likely...

Local track powers Carencro, Teurlings, Lafayette chase parish crowns

In a sign of confidence in downtown Baton Rouge and Louisiana’s petroleum sector, Dallas-based Placid Refining Company announced Thursday it will move its headquarters to Fourth Street as part of a $66 million project that will include upgrades to its Port Allen refinery. The company expects the relocation and...

Why this petroleum company is moving its headquarters from Texas to downtown Baton Rouge

Pineville, LA

Camp Beauregard, the sprawling Louisiana installation in Pineville that functions as one of two main sites for the Louisiana National Guard, will get a new name later this year as it follows the Army’s lead in moving away from bases named for Confederate officers. Louisiana Adjutant General D. Keith...

Six options considered for renaming Louisiana National Guard facility that honored Confederate general

Lafayette’s City Council this week handed over its months-long investigation of Mayor-President Josh Guillory to the Louisiana legislative auditor’s office. No findings have been disclosed yet as the probe moves forward. Within weeks of Guillory’s return from rehab last summer and amid a story about a construction equipment...

Lafayette City Council passes Josh Guillory investigation to legislative auditor

West Feliciana Parish, LA

Saint Francisville, LA

The free seventh annual Tunica Hills Music Festival and Jam will be from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday in St. Francisville. Bring an instrument to join a jam, or listen to the many groups. Food vendors will be on site. Bring chairs, blankets and coolers. Baseball registration open. Registration...

Around the Felicianas for March 22, 2023

The timeline for the Comite River Diversion Canal — the Baton Rouge region's biggest flood control project for the past two generations — continues to slip as state highway and federal officials indicated Tuesday the nearly $500 million canal is probably more than two years from completion. The...

Despite delays, Corps, DOTD feel 'sense of urgency' on Baton Rouge's biggest flood project

Sunset, LA

New Roads, LA

New Roads is no longer the "prettiest city on the water." At least, not officially. Citizens voted last week to replace the slogan with a new one: "Come for the culture, stay for the sunsets." Mayor Theron Smith said he realized on the campaign trail that people weren't excited about...

How New Roads got its new slogan: 'Come for the culture, stay for the sunsets.'

Jaci Russo, CEO of brandRusso, won the Rising Leader Award from the Women’s Leadership Conference Planning Committee. The award is presented to those who have worked more than 15 years to build collaborative relationships, develop leadership skills and advance gender equity in their communities and organizations. Russo began her...

Acadiana newsmakers: Jaci Russo wins Rising Leader Award

Almost a year and a half ago, the Metro Council unanimously approved a $6 million, federally-funded housing project in Scotlandville, which Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome touted as a boon for an economically disadvantaged area of the parish. But the push to build 36 low-income apartment units at Sora Street and...

How a disagreement over COVID money left a north Baton Rouge housing project in limbo

Baker, LA

Baker Police Chief Carl Dunn announced the Baker Police Department, in partnership with Baker Workforce Development, is offering the Baker Police Achievement Academy Program. The program, which will be available from 2:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays, is designed to assist area students by offering tutoring and homework help. It will also provide children with a hot meal during the sessions.

Baker Chief of Police announces after-school childhood literacy and tutoring program

The charitable foundation for Republic Services will award one of its 2023 National Neighborhood Promise grants to Lafayette Habitat for Humanity that will support the local chapter of 100 Black Men. The Republic Services Charitable Foundation announced the 12 organizations across the country to receive a combined $2.5 million in...

Republic Services grant to benefit 100 Black Men of Lafayette

Arkansas State

WHO: Arkansas (19-2, 3-0) at LSU (19-2, 2-1) WHEN: Noon Friday. RADIO: WDGL-FM, 98.1 (Baton Rouge); WWL-AM, 870 (New Orleans); KLWB-FM, 103.7 (Lafayette) RANKINGS: LSU is No. 1 by Collegiate Baseball. Arkansas is No. 3. PROBABLE STARTERS: LSU — RHP Paul Skenes (5-0, 0.59 ERA); Arkansas —LHP Hunter Hollan (4-0,...

How to watch, listen to Arkansas at LSU on Friday

Alabama State

Guard Justice Williams became the fourth player from the 2023 LSU basketball team to enter the NCAA transfer portal Thursday. Williams, a 6-foot-4, 175-pound sophomore, put his name in the portal for the second year in a row. He did so after coach Will Wade was fired last March, but eventually returned to join new coach Matt McMahon.

LSU sophomore guard Justice Williams joins three teammates in transfer portal

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Opelousas man arrested on attempted murder, accused of shooting man during fight near Arnaudville

An Opelousas man was arrested after law enforcement officials say he shot another man during an altercation in the Arnaudville area on Saturday. St. Landry Parish...

Opelousas man arrested on attempted murder, accused of shooting man during fight near Arnaudville

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