Highway 90 Shut Down State Police have closed Highway 90 Westbound, near Darnell Road near Guiding Star. It's a two vehicle crash. According to State Troopers, an 18-wheeler tanker truck carrying soap and a fully loaded dump truck crashed into each other. State Police expect to have the highway opened sometime Friday evening. More >>
Highway 90 Shut Down State Police have closed Highway 90 Westbound, near Darnell Road near Guiding Star. It's a two vehicle crash. According to State Troopers, an 18-wheeler tanker truck carrying soap and a fully loaded dump truck crashed into each other. State Police expect to have the highway opened sometime Friday evening. More >>
A 19-year-old Lafayette Parish man has been arrested on charges of using the Internet to solicit a detective who was posing as an underage girl. More >>
Lafayette Parish deputies arrested Ebony Eskno on a second-degree murder charge. A Sheriff's spokesman says Cail Jones, Jr., was also arrested Thursday. Jones is charged as an accessory after the fact. More >>
St. Landry Parish has hired a full-time beaver control officer, but it is unclear what to charge the parish's 13 special drainage taxing districts for his services. More >>
The Army Corps of Engineers said it planned to finish closing a major spillway Thursday that it opened last month to ease pressure on area levees from the swollen Mississippi River. More >>