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Knife-wielding Suspect Threatens Bar Manager

August 8, 2012 6:07 AM

At approximately midnight, an off-duty officer, Deputy Marshal Brandon Hargrave, disarmed and subdued a knife-wielding suspect, at gunpoint. The suspect threatened the life of a downtown bar manager. The suspect has been booked by Lafayette Police into the Lafayette Parish Correctional Center. more »
Flooding Mississippi River Threatens Catfish Industry

May 13, 2011 9:50 AM

YAZOO CITY, Miss. (AP) - Catfish farming in Mississippi faces grave danger from flooding. The rising Mississippi River and its swelling tributaries threaten to inundate an economic mainstay that generates $200 million in annual sales. These new woes follow struggles in recent years against competition from Asian imports and high... more »
Sinking Oil Threatens Historic Gulf Shipwrecks

July 4, 2010 3:44 PM

TIMBALIER ISLANDS, La. (AP) - Not just flora and fauna are getting caked in oil. So is the Gulf of Mexico's barnacled history of pirates, sea battles and World War II shipwrecks. The Gulf is lined with wooden shipwrecks, American-Indian shell midden mounds, World War II casualties, pirate colonies, historic... more »