UPDATE: 4:00 p.m. — Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s deputies confirm that Markeya Jackson has turned himself in and is being booked into the parish correctional center. ORIGINAL POST: LAKE CHARLES, La. (KLFY) — Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s (CPSO) deputies have made three arrests and are looking for one additional person in relation to yesterday’s (Dec. 21) shooting […]
LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY) — A 28-year-old male was struck multiple times after gunfire broke out at the Beau Soleil Apartments on Martin Luther King Dr. in Lafayette Sunday morning. Cpl Bridgette Dugas of the Lafayette Police Department confirmed officers responded to the shooting at around 1:30 a.m. When they arrived, they found one male victim […]
UPDATE: Iberia Parish Sheriff’s Office detectives have made two arrest in connection with a Saturday night homicide on Cotton Street. 23-year-old Tyler Bourque and 50-year-old Ronald Bourque of New Iberia were arrested Sunday. Both were booked into the Iberia Parish Jail on charges of attempted robbery and first degree murder, according to Sheriff’s Office […]
A Louisiana man has been charged with his 5th DWI. It happened on the Chitimacha Reservation Friday. Tribal police say 44 year old Demone Johnson, of Shreveport, was pulled over for speeding. He was charged with driving while intoxicated, and transported to the St. Mary parish jail.
With just a few days before Christmas, local stores are preparing for those last-minute shoppers. Monique Fremin, owner of ‘Morgan Claire’ boutique, says, “We open, our regular hours are 10-6, but we open at 9 am, 7 days a week through the holidays.” Christmas is days away. Soon everyone will be opening gifts from under […]
The world’s oldest living couple celebrated another major milestone when their senior living community in Austin, Texas, threw them a party for their 80th wedding anniversary. John and Charlotte Henderson have an aggregate age of 211 years and 175 days, and a love story that has quite literally stood the test of time. To celebrate their 80th […]
ST. MARTINVILLE, La. (KLFY)- The St. Martinville Police Department is asking State Police to investigate who leaked confidential information from the police chief’s personnel file. The request comes after an anonymous source delivered copies of Police Chief Ricky Martin’s high school equivalency diploma, or GED, to city officials and claimed the GED was falsified. The […]
This Sunday the Saints head to Nashville to take on the Tennessee Titans at noon in Nissan stadium. For my three keys to the game, click the video provided.
Two men from Jennings were sentenced in federal court on charges related to drugs and firearms. United States Attorney for the Western District of Louisiana David C. Joseph, announced that 38-year-old Eric Lawaun Alexander of Jennings was sentenced to six-and-a-half years in prison for possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute and possession of a […]
From an outbreak of mysterious lung-injury deaths to America’s near loss of measles elimination status, the beginning of the end of the U.S. HIV epidemic to the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), CDC worked around the clock – and around the globe – to protect Americans from domestic and global […]
To have a person run-up and take your vehicle by force is what’s called carjacking. Lafayette police say the way to help defend against carjacking is to drive with the mindset that it can happen anytime and anywhere. LPD Deputy Chief Reginald Thomas says never pickup a stranger. “If you see a stranger and you […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah boy is speaking out after being berated by a substitute teacher for saying he was grateful for being adopted by his two dads, one of whom is a professional dancer from “Dancing with the Stars.” Daniel van Amstel, 11, told“CBS This Morning” on Friday that he got angry […]