Fighting back tears, Terry Burrows stood before a small gathering clearly as a man conflicted.
His decision to step down as the McNeese State head baseball coach had been 12 months in the making but was less than 20 hours old, so emotions were still raw Friday morning. But Burrows wanted this mome ...
By Jim Gazzolo / American Press
It was just two years ago that hopes were sky high. The Swashbucklers were under new management and there was fresh energy in the franchise. There were high hopes for the future. Not even two full seasons later, all seems lost. On Thursday, when the Swashbucklers closed their doors, the promises ...
By Andrew Perzo / American Press
Other than the small cities, who else receives money from the casinos? The Calcasieu Parish Gaming Revenue District, created in 2007, disburses money paid by local riverboats and Delta Downs’ slots operation to the Police Jury; the city of Lake Charles; the Port of Lake Charles; the Calca ...
By Jim Gazzolo / American Press
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 ...
By Eric Cormier / American Press
So I’m eating off a full plate of chicken stew with black-eyed peas and smothered corn and attempting to conduct an interview with the guys responsible for the wonderful plate of food. This is an exercise in futility. Eating and interviewing is about as stupid as driving and texting. No, I&r ...
By Andrew Perzo / American Press
I have always heard that red, blue and green lights on vehicles in Louisiana are reserved for emergency vehicles only. Lately, I have seen numerous Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development vehicles with flashing red lights on the top. I also saw trucks working on I-10 near Iowa with ...
Each Memorial Day, Raymond Arsement makes every service possible, sometimes even traveling to Alexandria to attend services
there. Most years, he er ...
BATON ROUGE (AP) — A state program to offer public school students online courses provided by colleges or private companies
is being scaled bac ...
The swarm of termites in Southwest Louisiana should last about one more week and is not any worse than previous years, according
to Jimmy Meaux, coun ...
Because people often have the misconception that driving or riding in a truck is safer than in a car, occupants often believe
they don’t have t ...
Now that Terry Burrows is gone, the question is where athletic director Tommy McClelland will turn to put the McNeese baseball
program back on a winn ...
HOOVER, Ala. (AP) — Hunter Newman and four relievers combined on a one-hitter to lead LSU to a 3-1 victory over Arkansas on Saturday
and advanc ...
Fighting back tears, Terry Burrows stood before a small gathering clearly as a man conflicted.
His decision to step down as the McNeese State head ba ...
If Tommy McClelland was looking for the perfect blueprint for his baseball program, the man standing in the back of the room
Friday morning would see ...
Autism Services of Southwest Louisiana will hold its Autism Rocks fundraiser at 6 p.m. Sunday, May 26, in the L’Auberge Casino
Auditorium. The ...
ELTON — The Coushatta Farmers’ Market will wrap up its spring season Saturday with the Coushatta Farmers’ Market Fun Fest,
featurin ...
Lafayette band Travis Matte and the Kingpins will be the lead attraction at the second Downtown at Sundown performance Friday
on Ryan Street between ...
Get Social With Us!
+Share