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If you do, don’t mention it to the Lutcher or Port Allen girls powerlifting teams. Both teams proved heavy lifting is still their thing at the LHSAA state powerlifting championships. Lutcher claimed its 16th straight title by winning Division II on the third day of the meet held Friday...

Girls rule: Lutcher, Port Allen dominate once again at LHSAA powerlifting meet

Carencro, LA

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

Ascension Parish, LA

Sulphur, LA

With a bye in his district schedule this week, Sulphur baseball coach Sam Moore took his No. 5-rated team on a tour of the Ascension Parish portion of District 5-5A. The Tors followed up a decisive 11-0 victory Tuesday over St. Amant with a 7-3 triumph Wednesday against No. 6-rated Dutchtown at Griffin Park.

Sulphur baseball team enjoying its time spent in Ascension Parish

Arkansas State

A nine-inning pitchers' duel turned into an extra-inning slugfest for No. 3 Arkansas as it took the series opener against No. 1 LSU 9-3 in 10 innings on Friday afternoon at Alex Box Stadium. It often takes one mistake to crack a pitchers' duel, and the Razorbacks (20-2, 4-0 Southeastern...

LSU baseball drops series opener to Arkansas in extra innings. Here's how it played out.

The LSU vs. Arkansas baseball series will now conclude with a Saturday doubleheader. Saturday's game 2 of the series will remain at 1 p.m., while game 3, originally slated for Sunday, will take place at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday evening. Both games will be nine innings. The first of the...

Here's the updated schedule for LSU vs. Arkansas baseball

Utah State

GREENVILLE, S.C. — LSU coach Kim Mulkey has earned at least $126,000 in contract incentives so far during the Tigers’ Sweet 16 run and stands to earn much more if her team can continue to advance. Mulkey earned a $28,000 bonus for an NCAA tournament appearance, $30,000 for...

Check out LSU coach Kim Mulkey's list of NCAA tournament-related contract incentives

GREENVILLE, S.C. — Back in 1988, Danny Manning put the Kansas Jayhawks on his back and carried them to the NCAA championship. It was a team that became known by the 1950s doo-wop-sounding nickname of “Danny and the Miracles.”. It’s 2023, and we’re getting a similar vibe from...

Scott Rabalais: Can Angel Reese carry the LSU Tigers from the Sweet 16 to the Final Four?

Iowa State

GREENVILLE, S.C. — Angel Reese is not a finalist for the Naismith or Wade national player of the year awards. And Kim Mulkey isn’t happy about it. Reese, LSU’s All-American forward, lost out to South Carolina’s Aliyah Boston, Iowa’s Caitlin Clark, Villanova’s Maddy Siegrist and Elizabeth Kitley of Virginia Tech for the Naismith Award. Boston, Clark, Siegrist and Indiana’s Mackenzie Holmes are finalists for the Wade Trophy.

NCAA notebook: LSU star Angel Reese snubbed for two more player of the year awards

South Carolina State

LSU women's basketball coach Kim Mulkey did not disappoint with her ensemble for Friday's Sweet Sixteen battle against Utah in Greenville, South Carolina. Mulkey, who is in her second season at LSU, has developed quite the reputation in Baton Rouge for her selection of outfits on gameday, and it appears she topped herself in South Carolina on Friday.

Kim Mulkey arrived for LSU-Utah in the Sweet Sixteen wearing quite the flashy outfit

Indiana State

GREENVILLE, S.C. — Miami’s Cavinder twins, Haley and Hanna, are the Olivia Dunnes of women’s college basketball. The twins, who are playing for the Hurricanes in Friday’s first Greenville 2 regional semifinal against Villanova, have over 4 million social media followers. By comparison Dunne, the LSU gymnast, has 7.3 million followers on TikTok and 3.7 million on Instagram.

Miami basketball's Cavinder twins on LSU gymnast Olivia Dunne; 'She's the queen of NIL'

LSU's Angel Reese snubbed for two player of the year awards. Kim Mulkey isn't happy.

Louisiana State

All signs point to the 110th running of the Louisiana Derby going through the powerful Brad Cox barn. Cox, a two-time winner of the Eclipse Award as thoroughbred racing’s Most Outstanding Trainer, has seven of the top 20 horses in the latest Kentucky Derby points standings. And three of them — Instant Coffee, Jace’s Road and Tapit’s Conquest — rank among the favorites in the 12-horse field for the $1 million Louisiana Derby, the feature contest in a 15-race card on Saturday at Fair Grounds Race Course.

Jeff Duncan: At the Louisiana Derby, this Brad Cox trio headlines a deep, talented field

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

Scott, LA

The town of Scott, just to the west of Lafayette was born as a railroad town. According to records, the railroad that runs through Scott was built between 1870 and 1880 using convict labor. Some of the land for the railroad was obtained from Dominique Cayret. J.B. Scott, then the...

How Scott became known as 'Where the West begins'

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

Thibodaux, LA

A Thibodaux man irate that he hadn't yet received a check in the mail hummed a rock at U.S. postal worker Thursday and injured her arm, Assumption Parish sheriff's deputies said. Deputies arrested Ronald Washington Jr., 27, after the postal worker reported the encounter near Labadieville, deputies said in a...

Louisiana man chases, throws rock at a postal worker over a missing check, deputies say

Georgia State

Update: Police identified the arrested woman as Tiffany Ann Guidry. One of the women wanted for questioning in the death of a Georgia man who died of a drug overdose while on a business trip to Baton Rouge last month has been arrested, police said Friday. Authorities on Thursday issued...

Woman arrested in connection with Nathan Millard case, Baton Rouge police say

With the bounty of spring, the Big River Economic and Agricultural Development Alliance is set to begin operating four weekly markets in different areas of Baton Rouge. Starting Tuesday, April 11, the Red Stick Farmers Market will host a group of farmers and food artisans from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. every Tuesday at the Main Library on Goodwood Blvd.

BREADA reopening fresh produce markets to gear up for the bounty of a Louisiana spring

5 p.m. - 8 p.m. Chris Leblanc. 7:30 p.m. - 8:45 p.m. Tommy Castro & The Painkillers. 2:15 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Sam Hogan & The Rhythm Ramblers. 1 p.m. - 2 p.m. OMT Band featuring Floyd Patterson. 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Gregg Martinez featuring TK Hulin and Johnny...

Baton Rouge Blues Festival announces lineup for April 21-23 downtown event

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

Zachary, LA

Since the Zachary school district was formed in 2003, the compensation for School Board members has been the same: $500 a month. Board members are now considering whether it’s time to give themselves a pay raise. The issue came up during a work session preceding Tuesday’s board meeting, which...

Zachary school board considers raise for themselves, approves $700,000 to replace stadium turf

The attorneys for Ian Howard, who is accused of fatally shooting a Lafayette Police officer and injuring three other people, are worried his ability to assist his defense is deteriorating after months of treatment. Howard's attorneys, Elliot Brown and Richard Bourke with the Louisiana Capital Assistance Center, raised their concerns...

Ian Howard's ability to assist defense deteriorating, his attorneys said in court

Calcasieu Parish, 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

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

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

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

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The time to grind: Scotlandville fends off Port Allen's challenges after 2nd-quarter surge

A cold-shooting second quarter for Port Allen gave Scotlandville a degree of separation Tuesday night, but there was more to the Hornets’ 74-63 victory over the...

The time to grind: Scotlandville fends off Port Allen's challenges after 2nd-quarter surge

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