A 38-year-old man was killed in a motorcycle crash in Acadia Parish late Saturday night. It happened around 11:00 p.m. on LA Hwy 98 East of LA Hwy 95. According to State Police, Michael Daigle of Church Point was killed while riding a motorcycle westbound on LA 98. At the same time, police say, 25-year-old […]
A woman had a freak and dangerous encounter with a camel in a field near a busy truck stop in Grosse Tete. Authorities said a woman was chasing after her loose dog when she was attacked by the animal. According to WBRZ, The camel was spooked by the wandering dog and woman chasing it, so […]
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) – Louisiana voters will decide the fate of four constitutional changes on the Oct. 12 ballot, and a nonpartisan organization has details about the proposals. The Public Affairs Research Council of Louisiana, known as PAR, has released its yearly online guide to the constitutional amendments that will appear on the ballot. […]
The ATF has teamed up with the National Shooting Sports Foundation to offer a reward of $10,000 for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of the suspect(s) who stole multiple firearms from a Youngsville shooting range earlier this month. The reward is part of a larger national initiative between the NSSF and the ATF […]
ABBEVILLE, LA — “People are scared for real”, Joe Reid told me from his Abbeville home. There’s a problem in the city. Witnesses of violent crime are being threatened if they tip off the police. “They do not care”, Reid said. “They don’t care who’s living. Next thing you know, ‘Oh, you talking? Yes, I’m […]
A mother and her boyfriend have been charged with cruelty to a juvenile after a 3-year-old was found wandering in the parking lot at the Peto’s truck stop casino in Roanoke. It happened Wednesday September 18, around 6:00 pm. Jeff Davis Parish Sheriff Officials said a security guard located the toddler walking around in the […]
Family members are concerned for the well-being of a loved one. 25-year-old Naquan Celestine has been missing since Saturday, September 14 in the area of Arthur Street. “He has a fiance and 2-year old daughter whom he would never abandon like this,” his family said. “Something is wrong.” Celestine is described as a black male, 6’1” […]
UL Lafayette has been honored with the Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) award from INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine. “Our standards are high, and we look for institutions where diversity and inclusion are woven into the work being done every day across their campuses,” stated Lenore Pearlstein, publisher of INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine, in press […]
There’s a new phone app for the Abbeville Police Department. News Ten’s Neale Zeringue spoke to the police chief about what it can do. The free app will provide alerts and a way to give anonymous tips and the resource behind the technology is a website called tips 4-1-1. Chief William Spearman says his department […]
The New Orleans Saints face arguably their toughest task this season, facing the Seattle Seahawks on the road and without starting quarterback Drew Brees. Here’s my keys to the game. For more, click the video provided.
KLFY viewer Melissa Rene captured this rainbow over the Cajundome Saturday afternoon. The rainbow graced the skies over the area during the latest round of storms. “After rain there’s a rainbow, after a storm there’s calm, after the night there’s a morning, and after an end there’s a new beginning,” Rene added in her social […]
Billionaire Robert Smith is extending his goodwill months after he pledged to erase college loan debt for Morehouse College’s 2019 graduating class. The technology investor and philanthropist is also paying off loan debt amassed by parents to send their children to the college, the school said on Friday. Morehouse College announced in a release that Smith and […]
A Louisiana man drowned after proposing to his girlfriend underwater while the couple was vacationing in Tanzania. According to CNN Steven Weber and Kenesha Antoine were staying in Pemba Island in a wooden cabin with a bedroom submerged beneath the ocean surface off the east coast of Africa. Weber proposed on Thursday by swimming underwater […]
A veteran Mandeville police officer was fatally shot and another received minor injuries when a suspect opened fire on them after both the suspect’s and officers’ vehicles crashed at the end of a pursuit Friday, law enforcement officials said. Vincent Liberto, 58, a 25-year veteran of the force, died at the scene of the shooting […]