Bob Dean Jr. was charged Wednesday with eight felony counts after conditions deteriorated at the evacuation site and multiple people died.
Author: Ashley White, Lafayette Daily Advertiser
He masterminded a plot to kidnap his estranged wife. But the men he hired drowned trying to evade police.
Lawrence Michael Handley of Lafayette pleaded guilty after hiring two men to kidnap his estranged wife, a plan that failed when the two men drowned.
Hurricane Laura’s ‘unsurvivable’ storm surge: It looks like Louisiana was spared, but some rural areas likely hit hard
Gov. John Bel Edwards said Louisiana “caught a break” on storm surge. The National Hurricane Center says the surge was likely as bad as feared.
Louisiana officers fire 11 rounds, fatally shooting Black man; state police investigate
Louisiana State Police identified the man killed as 31-year-old Trayford Pellerin and said he was carrying a knife before he was fatally shot.
Daughter-in-law of LSU offensive coordinator dies in plane crash on way to Peach Bowl
Carley McCord, daughter-in-law of LSU offensive coordinator Steve Ensminger, was one of five people killed in a plane crash on way to the Peach Bowl.
Ernest Gaines, author of ‘The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman,’ has died
Ernest Gaines, author of “A Lesson Before Dying” and “The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman,” has died at age 86.
Man suspected of setting fires at Louisiana black churches charged with federal hate crimes
The man suspected of setting fire to three churches in St. Landry Parish has been indicted on federal hate crime charges.