A DeRidder man was found guilty Friday of sexually assaulting a woman at gunpoint inside a local motel. Michael Carter Jr., 45, was found guilty by a 12-person jury of one count each of sexual battery ...

Louisiana fishermen, local environmental groups and the Sierra Club filed a lawsuit Friday in Cameron Parish challenging a coastal use permit for a proposed 44-mile pipeline, arguing state regulators ...

LeBron James will not be back with the Los Angeles Lakers and plans to play a record-extending 24th NBA season elsewhere, a person with knowledge of those plans confirmed Tuesday. The person spoke to ...

Danny Lavergne has lived through several hurricanes and each one brings a new challenge — and lessons learned. Lavergne — who has served as Cameron Parish’s director of Homeland Security and Emergency ...

A divided Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a broad conception of birthright citizenship, rejecting President Donald Trump’s executive order declaring that children born to people who are in the United ...

More than 100 people just deported from the United States were being held in a hotel when earthquakes struck Venezuela, setting off a scramble to find survivors and bodies buried in the rubble, ...

John Fleming bet that rural anger over carbon capture and sequestration could help carry him through Louisiana’s Senate race. It wasn’t enough. U.S. Rep. Julia Letlow won the Republican runoff ...

At about 1:30 a.m. Saturday, Lake Charles Police Department officers were dispatched to 900 Lakeshore Drive in reference to a disturbance. Upon arrival, officers observed 25-year-old Kentrell Dunn ...

Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said leaders of both the U.S. and Iran had signed the agreement and endorsed him as a mediator. He said in a post on X that the deal “shall enter into force ...

A tropical storm watch has been issued for Cameron Parish as widespread showers and thunderstorms that began on Sunday continue to inundate the rest of Southwest Louisiana. National Weather Service ...

The College World Series begins Friday in Omaha and, with LSU not involved, this seems as good of a time as any to ponder to future of the game. The Southeastern Conference likes to think of itself as ...

The United States launched airstrikes Wednesday against Iran, and President Donald Trump said more were coming, as Tehran fired back at countries in the region. The escalating attacks threatened to ...