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BATON ROUGE - Multiple reports have come in claiming that the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Electronic Benefit Transfer (SNAP EBT) system is down. People reportedly can not access the funds in their SNAP EBT balances while some have yet to receive their benefits at all. It is still unclear why this is, how many are affected…

LACOMBE – Deputies with the St. Tammany Sheriff’s Office arrested a Baton Rouge man over the weekend in what is being described as a ‘high level’ drug bust. According to deputies, 24-year-old Jason Peter Leblanc was pulled over for a traffic stop near the intersection of N. 18th Street and Beulah Street in Lacombe. After…

DENHAM SPRINGS – Crews worked to fight a massive house fire in Livingston Parish early Saturday morning. Livingston Parish Fire Protection District 4 responded to the blaze around 6:54 a.m. Saturday on Vincent Acres Circle in Denham Springs. Firefighters arrived to find heavy flames coming from the roof of the single-family home. No one was…

BATON ROUGE – Most people think of LSU Football when they think of sports in Baton Rouge. Right now, the stage is set for a return of ice skating this weekend, and a hockey team could follow sometime soon. “I just about had tears in my eyes, pure excitement,” Ethan Webb, a hockey super fan…

LOS ANGELES – A jury found NBA YoungBoy not guilty at his felony gun trial Friday in Los Angeles. The rapper, whose real name is Kentrell Gaulden, was charged with a felon in possession of a firearm last year on a warrant out of Baton Rouge. Los Angeles authorities found an FN FNX .45 caliber…

NORCO – Early Friday morning, an unidentified driver was killed after rear-ending a box truck on the Interstate and their vehicle was consumed by flames.  Around 2:30 a.m., state police arrived at the scene of a two-vehicle crash in which a Toyota Prius struck the back of a box truck on I-10 westbound on the…

JEFFERSON COUNTY, Ark. – In what authorities are describing as an accidental shooting, an Arkansas 5-year-old shot and killed his 8-year-old brother Thursday. “This is a tragic incident that could have been avoided. I can’t emphasize strongly enough that guns need to be well secured and kept out of the hands and away from children…

BATON ROUGE – Police and fire department officials are investigating a reported arson at a vacant home off of Winbourne Avenue early Friday morning.  A press release sent out by the Baton Rouge Fire Department said firefighters arrived at 5512 Winbourne Avenue to find a concentrated fire near a vacant home’s window. Responders were able…

BATON ROUGE – A crash late Wednesday night on the Interstate left one man dead.  Baton Rouge police are investigating an accident on I-12 westbound around 11:30 p.m. Wednesday night.  The crash was between a Hyundai Elantra and a Chevrolet Silverado. Police reported the Elantra was stopped on the inside left shoulder before it was…

HAMMOND – Police are asking for help identifying a pair of thieves that worked together to steal over $600 worth of products from Ulta Beauty. The Hammond Police Department reviewed security footage from the business, located at 2026 Hammond Square Drive. On July 6 shortly before 1 p.m., the two suspects entered the store. The…

WHITEWOOD, Va. (AP) — Flooding in a remote pocket of southwest Virginia has damaged more than 100 homes and left some 40 people unaccounted for, but there are no confirmed deaths or injuries, authorities said Wednesday. First responders in Buchanan County began receiving reports of rising water and damage Tuesday night, authorities said at a…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Surging prices for gas, food and rent catapulted U.S. inflation to a new four-decade peak in June, further pressuring households and likely sealing the case for another large interest rate hike by the Federal Reserve, with higher borrowing costs to follow. Consumer prices soared 9.1% compared with a year earlier, the government…

DONALDSONVILLE – A man was arrested after an investigation revealed he had killed two people, including a 14-year-old girl, as well as shooting at three others. The Ascension Parish Sheriff’s Office reported in a press release sent out Wednesday that Devonte Leblanc, 21, was arrested for a double homicide that happened in March of 2021. …

BATON ROUGE – A women’s health office was allegedly vandalized and spray-painted overnight. The Women’s New Life Clinic in Baton Rouge said its workers found the building and signage around it painted in bright red with messages such as “abortion is a right” and “fake clinic.” The office offers certain services and hopes to persuade…

New York researchers transplanted pig hearts into two brain-dead people over the last month, the latest in a string of developments in the long quest to one day save human lives with animal organs. The experiments announced Tuesday come after a historic but failed attempt earlier this year to use a pig’s heart to save…

LONDON (AP) — London’s Heathrow Airport is capping daily passenger numbers for the summer and telling airlines to stop selling tickets as it steps up efforts to quell travel chaos caused by soaring travel demand and staff shortages. Britain’s busiest airport said Tuesday that it’s setting a limit of 100,000 passengers that it can handle…

BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) — A family fight over the home of a woman who moved into an assisted living facility left two people dead, and another wounded, police said. A preliminary investigation found that as several members of the family prepared to arrive in Florida for a vacation, a male relative who didn’t have…

BATON ROUGE – Police are investigating an attempted sexual assault report in the Perkins overpass district. The Baton Rouge Police Department responded to the area around 8 p.m. on Sunday night. No arrests have been made, and police did not release any information about possible suspects. Authorities say the investigation is ongoing. Permalink| Comments Top…

LAKE MAUREPAS – A six-year-old boy was taken to the hospital Sunday afternoon after he was bitten by an alligator on Lake Maurepas. The boy’s mother, Tiffany Cressionnie, said her family was swimming at the sandbar at Lake Maurepas near the Tickfaw River when her son was bitten. Cressionnie said she heard her son yell…

TEXAS – A pregnant woman ticketed for using the high-occupancy vehicle lane is using the overturning of Roe v. Wade to argue that her unborn fetus counts as a person.  Watch her full interview with CNN here. Permalink| Comments Top Featured Tags: – Louisiana News Press Release Distribution Service

SLIDELL – A Baton Rouge man was arrested with a massive stash of stolen checks Friday afternoon amid an outbreak of mail thefts across the capital area. The Slidell Police Department said Rashawn Robinson-Mills, 21, was stopped after officers saw him pulling a gun from his waistband while getting into a stolen car with a…

ST. TAMMANY – Traffic along I-10 West on the Twin Span Bridge stalled Sunday morning after an 18-wheeler overturned. The tanker was headed to New Orleans, officials say. The St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office told The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate the cab of the truck went off the bridge and into the water.…