NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Five dehydrated baby monkeys died or were euthanized in July at a University of Louisiana research center, according to a federal inspection report made public this week. Four of the rhesus macaques became dehydrated after a water pressure regulator malfunctioned July 20 at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette’s New Iberia [...]
UPDATE: Baton Rouge Police Department confirms that the FBI has joined BRPD to help find two-year-old Nevaeh Allen. BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) -- The search for a missing two-year-old last seen around noon on Friday is underway by the Baton Rouge Police Department. Authorities are looking for Nevaeh Allen, according to a spokesperson from BRPD. Police [...]
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The Louisiana Department of Health is now recommending booster shots for people at high risk who have gotten the Pfizer vaccine. LDH says there are three groups of people who are now eligible to get the booster shot. Of the eligible groups are people aged 65 and older, adults who live or work in a [...]
BATON ROUGE, La. (KLFY) -- The Louisiana State Police has issued a Level II Endangered Missing Child Advisory on behalf of the Baton Rouge Police Department for a 2-year-old child that was reported missing from her residence in the Belaire neighborhood of Baton Rouge. The child was last seen by her stepfather this afternoon, September [...]
ST. MARTINVILLE, La. (KLFY) -- 90-year-old St. Martinville woman Rose Alexander's home is embraced with memories and pictures of times past. Lewis and her husband had 10 children. That's a handful, but simply put, she handled it. "I don't know how much work and how it was done but I did it," Lewis stated. Lewis [...]
WASHINGTON D.C. (BRPROUD) -- President Biden has amended disaster declarations to include additional assistance for hurricanes Laura and Ida. For Hurricane Ida, additional federal funds will be for emergency work and facility repairs or replacements. For Hurricane Laura, there will also be increased funds for debris removal and emergency protective measures. In regards to Hurricane [...]
NEW IBERIA, La. (KLFY) - Some veterans in Iberia Parish are upset after the parish council voted to take over control of five buildings where veterans meet in the parish. The individual boards that had oversight have been reclassified as "advisory" committees, which means they have no power. "We got a sucker punch," said veteran [...]
LAKE CHARLES, La. (KLFY) -- Louisiana State Police are investigating a shootout between an escaped Department of Corrections inmate and officers with the Lake Charles Police Department and Calcasieu Parish Sheriff's Office SWAT team. The escaped inmate died at the scene, according to a press release from LSP. Desmond Louis, 20, of Lake Charles, was [...]
UPDATE: According the Evangeline Parish Sheriff's Office Shylissia Justice Briyon Freeman, 17 has been located safe and sound. VILLE PLATTE, La. (KLFY) -- The Evangeline Parish Sheriff's Office is searching for a Ville Plate teen who went missing in mid-September. According to the EPSO, Shylissia Justice Briyon Freeman, 17, was last seen by her caretaker [...]
VILLE PLATTE, La. (KLFY) -- The Evangeline Parish Sheriff's Office is searching for a Ville Plate teen who went missing in mid-September. According to the EPSO, Shylissia Justice Briyon Freeman, 17, was last seen by her caretaker at her home in Ville Platte on September 12. Her caretaker said that Freeman left at around 1 [...]