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A 23-year-old Sulphur man was charged with DWI and child endangerment twice in a 15-hour period on Monday, state police said.
Sgt. James Anderson said Zachry Wayne Parker was arrested by the Sulphur Police around 2 a.m. and charged with DWI, child endangerment, improper lane use and careless o ...
BY DORIS MARICLE / AMERICAN PRESS
SOILEAU — The sounds of Cajun and Zydeco music echoed through the countryside Monday as hundreds of revelers roamed the back
roads of rural Allen Parish for a traditional Courir de Mardi Gras.
The celebrants, many sporting masks and multi-colored fringe costumes, came by horseback and flat-b ...
BY ERIC CORMIER / AMERICAN PRESS
An Iowa businessman wants the chairman of the Lake Charles Planning and Zoning Commission to step down after a controversial
vote involving a planned parking lot at the corner of Nelson Road and Woodland Drive.
Lee Mallett told the American Press on Monday that chairman Powell Smith should have re ...
FROM STAFF REPORTS
A weekend of Carnival revelry will come to an end today with several Fat Tuesday parades and chicken runs in the area.
Two parades will make their way down Ryan Street. Iowa, Jennings and Iota will also host festivities.
While the weekend rain sent Mardi Gras revelers and planners alike scrambling ...
Oil prices jumped to a nine-month high above $105 a barrel on Monday after Iran said it halted crude exports to Britain and
France in an escalation of a dispute over the Middle Eastern country's nuclear program.
By Monday afternoon, benchmark March crude was up $2.02 to $105.26 per barrel in elect ...
FROM STAFF REPORTS
SULPHUR (AP) — The Calcasieu Parish Coroner's Office says a man who was being booked into the Sulphur jail apparently killed himself.
Coroner's chief investigator Zeb Johnson says he cannot release the man's name because police have not told him whether the man's hospitalized father has been ...
MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) — Imprisoned members of the hyper-violent Zetas drug cartel stabbed and bludgeoned 44 members of the rival Gulf cartel to death and then staged a mass escape, apparently with the help of prison authorities, officials in northern Mexico said Monday.Rodrigo Medina, governo ...
Washington (AP) — A "super" political action committee backing Mitt Romney's White House run raised more than $6 million last
month.
Financial reports released Monday show the
Restore Our Future super PAC pulled in much of its fundraising haul from
donors
who gave hundreds of thousands of ...
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Tehran is considering
extending an oil embargo on France and Britain to other European
countries, a semiofficial
Iranian news agency reported Monday.
The head of Iran's state oil company Ahmad Qalehbani was quoted by Mehr as saying that the country would stop selling cr ...
STEUBENVILLE, Ohio (AP) — Rick Santorum says President Barack Obama is pushing a radical environmental agenda that unwisely
limits energy production and turns its back on science.
Santorum told voters in eastern Ohio on Monday that science is on the side of those who want to aggressively pro ...
ASUNCION, Paraguay (AP) — A stray dog is getting credit for thwarting a prison break in Paraguay.
Officials say three dangerous inmates dug a tunnel about 26 feet (eight meters) from their cell to the street, and were about
to break free just before dawn when the dog began to bark and alerte ...