Josh Gray and three other former Washington-Marion basketball players were recently arrested in Sulphur, authorities said.

Gray, 19, was charged with shoplifting and released on a citation, said Sulphur Police Department spokesman Mel Estess.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — When a small anti-abortion group in Iowa sought nonprofit status, the Internal Revenue Service asked its board to promise not to organize protests outside Planned Parenthood and demanded to know how its prayer meetings and protest signs were educational.

Although the Coalition for Life of Iowa's application was ultimately approved in 2009, the tax collection agency's treatment of that and other anti-abortion groups has gotten new attention in the wake of an ongoing scandal over the alleged targeting of conservative groups.

Two Louisiana Red Cross volunteers — one of them from Lake Charles — headed to Oklahoma on Tuesday after a half-mile-wide tornado ripped through the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday, killing at least 24 people.

Businessman William Dore Sr. recently donated $500,000 to the St. Nicholas Center for Children in Lake Charles — money that will go directly toward work on a new building.

It is hard to tell what is going on with the Swashbucklers, both on the field and off.

A year ago, when the new owners took over, there was life in the old indoor pro team that calls Lake Charles its home.

Excitement in the front office led to changes all over the place. Gone were some of the old gimmicks that made the games seem

History has not been kind to the top seed at the Southland Conference baseball tournament.

Only twice in the last decade has the regular-season champion replicated that feat in the tourney, an item