NEW ORLEANS (AP) - New Orleans police say that when a man was shot in the Treme neighborhood, a stray bullet hit a school bus where flying glass injured a girl. Officer Frank Robinson says the man was shot in the hip and leg Monday afternoon. His injuries are not... more »
A dispute on the roadways led to a shooting and a crash, leaving one man dead.
This all happening in Lafayette at around four o'clock Saturday near the intersection of University and Simcoe.
Two cars were involved, a man and a woman in two separate vehicles, and police... more »
Movie filming in Lafayette will affect traffic for the next two weeks. Bullet Films is shooting for the movie "AFF Weather Wars." Tony Tramel, Director of the Traffic and Transportation Department, announced that portions of the roadways, sidewalks and intersections may be closed to accommodate this Lafayette film initiative. The... more »
HAMILTON, Bermuda (AP) - Hurricane Igor swept past Bermuda and kept lashing at the Atlantic island with high winds and furious waves on Monday as power failures in many areas plunged people hunkered down at home into darkness. The storm knocked boats from their moorings and littered the tiny British... more »
An 8 year old Opelousas girl is in stable condition, recovering from a gunshot wound sustained near her home. It happened near the intersection of Plantar Street and Railroad Avenue in Opelousas. Chief Perry Gallow says the girl was in the wrong place at the wrong time; hit by a... more »
BATON ROUGE, La.- A young man who was killed by a stray bullet as he left a Baton Rouge Bible study this week was trying to protect the people around him, his stepfather says. Lenford Morris, 18, died Wednesday night. His stepfather, William Johnson, told The Advocate of Baton Rouge... more »
Detectives in Jeff Davis parish are investigating the murder of a Welsh man. The body of 23-year-old Kenneth Harmon Jr. was found underneath his truck in a ditch off highway 1126 south of Roanoke late Thursday night. The Chevy S-10 truck was seen by a passerby on Thursday night backed... more »
On November 19, 2009 at approximately 23:00 hrs, Jefferson Davis Parish Sheriff's Deputies, LA State Police, and Roanoke Fire Department responded to a truck in the ditch near LA 1126 and S Main Road, south of Roanoke, LA. Upon arrival, first responders found the vehicle and also found the driver... more »