BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) - Baton Rouge Police are investigating a hit and run accident that killed a Southern University student over the weekend. A spokesman with BRPD confirms the incident happened Saturday night after 10:30 p.m. in the 8000 block of Scenic Highway near the intersection of Harding Blvd. The family tells brproud, 18-year-old [...]
LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY) -- Our Lady of Lourdes Blood Donor Center is holding a blood drive on Thursday, April 29 to combat a blood and platelet shortage. The event will be held from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at 4540 Amb. Caffery Pkwy. in the parking lot between Women & Children's Hospital and the Caffery [...]
NEW IBERIA, La (KLFY) -- The New Iberia Police Department is searching for a woman wanted for theft and bank fraud. NIPD has an arrest warrant out for Monica Denise Pickett-Mitchell for theft (misdemeanor) and bank fraud (felony). If anyone knows the whereabouts of the individual, contact the New Iberia Police Department at 337-369-2306 or [...]
A man was shot Wednesday morning by a deputy in Elizabeth City, the Pasquotank County Sheriff's Office confirms.
OPELOUSAS, La. (KLFY) -- Funeral services for an Opelousas LSU student whose body was found in the Mississippi River after her car crashed on a Baton Rouge bridge will be held on Saturday, April 24. Services for Kori Gauthier, 18, will be held at 10:30 a.m. on April 24 at Our Savior's Church in Opelousas, [...]
As President Biden weighs executive action to cancel as much as $50,000 in student loans for each borrower, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal of Washington are introducing new legislation Wednesday they say would help address the soaring cost of higher education. If passed, the College for All Act would make community colleges and [...]
CHURCH POINT, La. (KLFY) -- Police here have made arrests of a number of juveniles allegedly involved in recent shootings, and Police Chief Dale Thibodeaux said there are plans to try them all as adults for their crimes. Thibodeaux said the juveniles have also been indicted and are from the Church Point, Rayne and Crowley [...]
NEW ORLEANS, La. (WGNO)– Breaking news overnight -- a sixth person has been recovered dead from the capsized Seacor Power lifting vessel incident. Multiple crew members are still missing in the Gulf. According to family members, who confirmed this info Tuesday night, the body of Quinon Pitre, 31, a native of the Church Point area is the [...]
CALCASIEU PARISH, La. (KLFY) - A Lake Charles woman is dead after being partially ejected from her vehicle in a single-car crash on U.S. 90 east of PPG Dr. in Calcasieu Parish, according to Louisiana State Police Troop D officials. Cassie Nicole Brockman, 22, of Lake Charles, was traveling west on I-10 in her 2008 [...]
