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BATON ROUGE (AP) — A Louisiana judge has ordered former Miami Dolphins running back Cecil Collins held without bond until
a probation hearing July 1. The Advocate reported that District Judge Mike Caldwell will decide whether Collins violated probation on Louisiana charges by committing a b ...
By Johnathan Manning / American Press
Jury selection began Monday for a man accused of murdering his cousin. Eric Jon Bello, 41, is charged with second-degree murder in the shooting of 32-year-old Pauline Bryant in 2008. Bello and Bryant reportedly lived in the same home, at 2265 Birdnest Road in Gillis, at the time of her death. Bec ...
By Johnathan Manning / American Press
The 12 officers that begin their careers today as Lake Charles policemen were chosen from a group of nearly 100, Police Chief Don Dixon said. Dixon said the Lake Charles Police Department publicized the openings and received 96 applications. From that group, LCPD officials deemed 14 fit for hire, ...
By Johnathan Manning / American Press
Although he is in prison, former Leesville Police Chief Bobby Hickman’s pay continues to accrue, his lawyer said. Leesville fired Hickman in January 2011, although the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeal nullified the termination because the city had not followed protocol. The court said the invest ...
By Johnathan Manning / American Press
The Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s Office and the District Attorney’s Office outlined their case against William Felix Vail in an eight-page arrest warrant and affidavit, released Friday. After what Sheriff Tony Mancuso and District Attorney John DeRosier said was a joint yearlong investi ...
By Johnathan Manning / American Press
Felix Vail arrived in Lake Charles on a Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s Office plane late Friday night. Vail, charged Friday with second-degree murder in the 1962 death of his wife Mary Horton Vail, was arrested Friday afternoon in Comal County, Texas. A person who answered the phone at the Coma ...
By Johnathan Manning / American Press
Overall, crime is down in Lake Charles, according to numbers released Thursday by the Police Department. Criminal offenses reported were down 3 percent (9,952 in 2012 from 10,215 in 2011) and arrests were down 8 percent, according to the department’s 2012 crime report. The Lake Charles Poli ...
By Natalie Stewart / American Press
SULPHUR — Officers lined up one by one to drop a light blue ribbon into a basket placed below four photos to pay their respects to four deputies killed in the state last year. Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s Deputy Randall Beniot, St. John the Baptist Parish Sheriff’s Office Deputies ...
By Doris Maricle / American Press
JENNINGS — The owner of some nuisance roosters said Tuesday he is willing to work with the city to resolve noise complaints made by neighbors. Troy Gaspard, of 538 Felix St., said he has been raising chickens and roosters at his property since moving there in 2007 after receiving verba ...
By Johnathan Manning / American Press
Two people accused of lying and falsifying documents during an investigation by the federal Office of the Inspector General were arraigned in 14th Judicial District Court on Monday. Hillary J. Broussard, 47, and Angela Ann Fruge, 48, are charged with malfeasance in office and obstruction of justic ...
By Johnathan Manning / American Press
The Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s Office and state police held roll call for fallen officers Tuesday morning. Officers killed in the line of duty in 2012 were honored, including Deputy Randy Benoit, as were officers killed in the line of duty in years past. Benoit, 41, was killed in a car acci ...
By Johnathan Manning / American Press
A Lake Charles woman pleaded guilty in 14th Judicial District Court Monday to killing two people whose car was stalled on the U.S. 171 Calcasieu River Bridge in April 2012. Megan Lynn Schexnider, 26, pleaded guilty to two counts of vehicular homicide and one count of vehicular negligent injuring. ...
By Johnathan Manning / American Press
Authorities believe that Houston crime rings were feeling out Lake Charles’ burglary potential during recent forays into the area. Officials said home burglaries in south Lake Charles on Dec. 17 and Jan. 10 were the work of a Houston gang, as were RadioShack robberies in Sulphur and Lake Ch ...
By Doris Maricle / American Press
JENNINGS — Officials in Jeff Davis Parish continue to work to find ways to build and operate a new parish jail to ease overcrowding and safety concerns caused by an aging facility. “I don’t know what the answer will be if we don’t get a new jail,” Police Jury Presid ...
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 Doris Maricle / American Press
JENNINGS — A 73-year-old Jennings man was charged with attempted manslaughter Saturday in connection with the stabbing of a female victim, authorities said. Floyd Daniels is being held without bond in the Jeff Davis Parish Jail, according to Deputy Chief Danny Semmes. The victim, whose name ...
BATON ROUGE (AP) — A Louisiana judge has ordered former Miami Dolphins running back Cecil Collins held without bond until
a probation hearing J ...NEW ORLEANS (AP) — State and federal authorities are offering a $3,000 reward for information about whoever shot and killed
a whooping crane al ...
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Deadly tornadoes that
have raked communities in Middle America over the past week, including Monday's massive twister tha ...
Jury selection began Monday for a man accused of murdering his cousin.
Eric Jon Bello, 41, is charged with second-degree murder in the shooting of 32 ...
For the second time in three years, tiny Eunice is atop its part of the softball world.
The Lady Bengals claimed their second Division II national ju ...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Even as Sean Payton tried to make the best of his one-season bounty banishment from the NFL by spending
time with his childr ...
Vanderbilt and LSU are the favorites to win this week's Southeastern Conference tournament after mowing through regular-season
play with uncommon eas ...
Go big or go home.
Actually, the Swashbucklers went big on their return home. Louisiana gave the ball to beefy back Tenise Eulese with the game, and ...
The City of Lake Charles Recreation and
Parks Department is currently taking registration from 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m., 3rd floor, City Hall, 326 Pujo St. ...
If a restaurant can stay viable for almost three decades, it must be doing something right.
Mr. and Mrs. Jay Huang opened Peking Garden Chinese Resta ...
The study of ballet has meant more than just learning to dance to a graduating student of Lady Leah Lafargue School of the
Dance. “It gives yo ...
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 ...
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