The Ragin Cajun Boxing Club has announced via social media that Coach Beau Williford, who was recently diagnosed with lung cancer and kidney failure, is now home with hospice care. “The legacy he will leave behind will last forever due to the many people’s live’s he’s touched and changed. When someone lives larger than life, they […]
In a series of tweets on Saturday morning, President Trump slammed Rep. Elijah Cummings for his criticism of treatment of migrants at the southern border, claiming that Cummings’ congressional district was one of the “worst run and most dangerous anywhere in the United States.” “Rep, Elijah Cummings has been a brutal bully, shouting and screaming […]
A Louisiana man was killed in an early morning house fire in Orange Beach, Alabama WALA-TV reports. Firefighters were called to single-story house on Holley Lane around 3 a.m. Saturday and when crews arrived on scene they found four of the five people who were in the building had escaped the fire. A fifth person […]
BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) – The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is alerting the public about a government impostor scam in which people who participate in Medicare are asked to trade their information in exchange for a free DNA testing kits. Medicare does not market DNA testing kits to the general public. The kits are pitched […]
One of the three college students that were suspended from their fraternity after posing with guns in front of a memorial for Emmett Till appears to be a recent graduate of Baton Rouge’s Episcopal High School. According to the Advocate, A Benjamin Joseph LeClere is listed among the Class of 2017 at Episcopal High School […]
A back to school bash was held Saturday at Heymann Park in Lafayette. The senior pastor alliances gave away 1,000 backpacks full of school supplies and had enough food for 2000 people. More than a dozen vendors offered school resources for the new school year that kicks off next month.
(CBS NEWS)- A group of Girl Scouts were rescued by boat Friday night after lightning struck their campsite near the Minnesota-Canada border, authorities said. Several agencies — including the St. Louis County Rescue Squad, the United States Border Patrol and the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources — joined forces in the search effort to rescue […]
Seoul, South Korea (CBS NEWS)- A balcony inside a nightclub in South Korea collapsed on Saturday, killing two people and injuring 16, including American and other athletes at the world swimming championships, officials said. Hundreds were at the nightclub in the southern city of Gwangju when the collapse occurred next to the athletes’ village. Two […]
ERIE, Pa. (WHTM) – The Pennsylvania Game Commission is asking for the public’s help to track down the person who shot and killed a bald eagle in Erie County. The mature eagle was found dead near Cranesville, in Elk Creek Township, on Thursday night. A game warden investigated and found the eagle had been shot, […]