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By Johnathan Manning / American Press
The five charges an accused former Calcasieu Parish priest faces relate to two victims, prosecutors said. Mark Broussard was originally charged with 224 counts of sex abuse against three boys. The counts were combined into 10 counts, which encompassed all the charges, but the statute of limitation ...
By Jordan Gribble / Special to the American Press
An 18-wheeler will leave Lake Charles today hauling not the chemical by-products of local refineries, machinery or lumber but instead will hold more than 22,000 pairs of used shoes. From high heels and boots to flip flops and waders, shoes were collected by a local woman to be refurbished and sol ...
By Johnathan Manning / American Press
A judge on Wednesday ordered a man accused of smashing church statues to undergo a sanity assessment. Daniel Wayne Duplechin, 36, was scheduled to go to trial June 17, but once a sanity commission begins, all court proceedings are put on hold until it is completed. Four Sulphur churches — O ...
By Natalie Stewart / American Press
Fourteen students attend St. Theodore Holy Family Catholic School in Moss Bluff through a state voucher program that was ruled unconstitutional by the state Supreme Court on Tuesday, and the school’s principal said the program is crucial for students enrolled in it. Jennifer Bellon said ...
By Jim Gazzolo / American Press
Last week, the media tripped over itself to cover two completely different stories and they did it in two entirely different ways. Both made for interesting copy. On one hand Jason Collins was, for the most part, applauded for his personal story of being the first openly gay pro male athlete ...
By Eric Cormier / American Press
Hundreds of people met at the Lake Charles Civic Center on Thursday to observe National Prayer Day. Monroe resident Dennis Swanberg, who describes himself as a Christian humorist and impressionist, was the keynote speaker during a lunch inside the Civic Center’s main auditorium. Swanberg&rs ...
By Johnathan Manning / American Press
Judge David Ritchie on Wednesday said prosecutors can use the recorded interview of authorities’ initial questioning of former priest Mark Broussard. Broussard is accused of molesting young male parishioners in the late 1980s and early ’90s. His attorney, Tom Lorenzi, asked the court ...
Felix Vail arrived in Lake Charles on a Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s Office plane late Friday night.
Vail, charged Friday with second-degree murd ...
For the second consecutive year, Lake Charles has won first place in the Louisiana Garden Club Federation’s Cleanest City
Contest. The win cam ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senior Treasury officials were made aware in June 2012 that investigators were looking into complaints from tea party groups t ...
As part of National Police Week, local law enforcement honored their officers this week with yearly awards.
Both the Lake Charles Police Department a ...
For the second time in three years, McNeese State’s postseason fate will hinge upon the final day of the regular season.
Thanks to freshman pit ...HOUSTON (AP) — Reid Ryan has been introduced as the new president of the Houston Astros.Ryan, the eldest son of Hall of Fame pitcher Nolan Ryan, ...
Well, here we are, tragically, less than four months before the start of the next football season, and yet the NFL has still
not figured out what to ...
BATON ROUGE — LSU will officially name the playing surface at Alex Box Stadium “Skip Bertman Field” tonight.
Thursday night ag ...
The city of Lake Charles will mark the National Park Trust’s third annual National Kids to Parks Day 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday,
May 18, at Millen ...
Larry the Cable Guy will bring his comedy routine to Lake Charles for two shows at 7 and 10 p.m. Friday, May 24, at the L’Auberge
Event Center. ...
Now that Contraband Days has closed, Lake Charles will continue to celebrate food, music and fun with the 15th annual Downtown
at Sundown festival 3- ...
The fifth annual Brewers Plate
fundraiser, helping provide affordable therapy for children with autism, will be at 6 p.m. Saturday, May 18, in the ...
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