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BELLE ROSE— A Napoleonville man is facing multiple charges after escaping from an Assumption Parish Sheriff’s Deputy after a high speed chase in May. Deputies say the pursuit happened on May 23 after 37-year-old Adam Leroy Hunt was seen violating multiple traffic laws off La. Highway One. A deputy assigned to ICE detail attempted to…

BATON ROUGE — Sexual assault survivors can now anonymously track the location and status of their sexual assault kit through a web-based program run by State Police. The Sexual Assault Kit Tracking Program was launched Monday by the Louisiana State Police Crime Lab. The program allows survivors to track their sexual assault kits from the…

BATON ROUGE – Be prepared for severe weather – it only takes one storm.  Next Thursday, Councilman Darryl Hurst and Congressman Troy Carter will host a hurricane preparedness fair to help you be prepared for what is shaping up to be an active storm season.  Come prepared to ask questions and engage with officials from…

WESTLAKE – A portion of Calcasieu Parish was placed under a shelter-in-place order due to a fire at a chemical facility.  The affected area extended to about a quarter-mile south of the BioLab facility in Westlake. BioLab is a chemical engineering facility off I-10, closing the interstate. According to Louisiana State Police, the interstate is…

BATON ROUGE — All East Baton Rouge Parish Library locations will be closed Thursday and Friday to observe Independence Day, the library announced Monday. Online resources including e-books, videos and online newspapers will still be available on the library’s website.  Permalink| Comments Top Featured Tags: – Louisiana News Press Release Distribution Service

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday extended the delay in the Washington criminal case against Donald Trump on charges he plotted to overturn his 2020 presidential election loss, all but ending prospects the former president could be tried before the November election. In a historic 6-3 ruling, the justices said for the first…

ALBANY – Three people – a man, a woman, and a juvenile – were found dead Monday morning in what deputies said appeared to be a murder-suicide. The Livingston Parish Sheriff’s Office was called to West Bates Road shortly before 8 a.m. Deputies found the three bodies on the scene.  Detectives are on scene Monday…

BATON ROUGE – Two people were injured in a shooting on Coursey Boulevard early Sunday morning, according to the East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office. The shooting happened at Coursey Boulevard and Jones Creek Road around 2 a.m. after deputies received a complaint of individuals in two vehicles shooting at each other. Shortly after deputies arrived,…

PORT ALLEN – I-10 westbound at mile marker 149 near Port Allen is closed due to several overturned semitrailers, Louisiana State Police said. A detour is set up from Highway 415 to 190 West. Congestion has now reached the Mississippi River Bridge. Images from the accident showed candles scattered across I-10. According to Louisiana State…

Christians and Jews believe in the Ten Commandments — just not necessarily the version that will hang in every public school and state-funded college classroom in Louisiana. The required text prescribed in the new law and used on many monuments around the United States is a condensed version of the Scripture passage in Exodus containing…

HAMMOND – The Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff’s Office will see a new sheriff sworn in for the first time in 20 years.  Saturday morning, Sheriff Elect Gerald Sticker was sworn in ahead of his term start date, scheduled for July 1.  According to Sticker, he believes change is vital for the parish.  “It’s incumbent upon me…

MOBILE – Former LSU quarterback and number one overall pick in the 2007 NFL Draft JaMarcus Russell was fired as a volunteer assistant coach and faces a lawsuit accusing him of taking a $74,000 check meant as a donation to the school. According to ESPN, a local business owner wrote the check and said Russell…

BATON ROUGE – A vacant house on Mulberry Street caught fire as a result of arson early Saturday morning, fire investigators say. According to the Baton Rouge Fire Department, the fire was first called in by 1:54 a.m. and firefighters arrived to find heavy smoke and fire on the front of the home. A powerline…

COVINGTON – A man was arrested Monday after he allegedly used fake IDs and information to make purchases at several St. Tammany Parish stores.  Later that same day, his believed accomplice was also arrested for using a fake ID to try and bond him out of jail.  St. Tammany Parish deputies were called to a…

BATON ROUGE — LSU women’s basketball star and rapper Flau’jae Johnson released her debut album on Friday, which features a collaboration with Lil Wayne and Baton Rouge-based lyrics. In addition to the track with Lil Wayne, entitled “Came Out a Beast,” the nine-track album, “Best of Both Worlds,” also includes collaborations with rappers NLE Choppa…

GONZALES — Police are searching for a man suspected of attempting to rob and sexually assault an employee of a Gonzales supermarket outside the store early Friday morning, Gonzales Police said. Around 4 a.m., a female employee at Lamendola’s Supermarket was assaulted by an unidentified Black man wearing a grey hoodie and blue Dickies-style work…

BATON ROUGE — Clay Higgins and Troy Carter, congressmen from opposite sides of the aisle, have introduced a new bill that would give the Food and Drug Administration authority to destroy imported products that pose a significant public health concern, specifically contaminated seafood, the pair said in a release Thursday. The Destruction of Hazardous Imports…

SLIDELL – A traffic stop led to the arrests of two alleged drug dealers Tuesday night.  As deputies with the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office attempted to pull over a vehicle on Highway 11 Tuesday night, they saw the driver and passenger throw something out the the window, which was later determined to be an…

MORGAN CITY — Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries agents arrested a Morgan City man for operating a boat while impaired in St. Martin Parish, officials say.  Brodie Anslum, 30, was arrested June 22 on DWI charges after agents saw him driving a boat while under the influence on Bayou Long. After they made contact…

BATON ROUGE — The former campus of IDEA University Prep will be acquired by a Baton Rouge-based aviation charter school, IDEA announced Wednesday. Helix Community Schools’ acquisition of IDEA’s Plank Road campus for its Helix Aviation Academy comes a little more than a month after IDEA announced its University Prep campus would shut down at…

HOLDEN — Firefighters and deputies were summoned to an RV fire in Holden on Wednesday morning and found a man dead in an apparent suicide, the Livingston Parish Sheriff’s Office said. Around 6 a.m., deputies responded to a possible death on George White Road. Officials found an RV on fire when they arrived, and the…

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday sided with the Biden administration in a dispute with Republican-led states over how far the federal government can go to combat controversial social media posts on topics including COVID-19 and election security. By a 6-3 vote, the justices threw out lower-court rulings that favored Louisiana, Missouri and other…