EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. (AP) - Tornadoes and severe weather were blamed for several deaths and injuries across parts of the Midwest and the South late Friday and early Saturday as a storm system caused significant damage. Many people were feared dead in Kentucky where officials say a tornado struck a candle factory. Police in Edwardsville, Illinois, [...]
Highlights from high school football championship games in Louisiana. The Westgate Tigers and Warren Easton Fighting Eagles faced off Friday night in the LHSAA 4A state football championship at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans. The Tigers win their 1st State Football Championship with a 14-13 win over the Eagles. ED White took on University [...]
LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY) -- Retail sales taxes for Lafayette Parish are on track to be the highest this year in nearly a decade. This year, the parish has already earned $629 billion in sales taxes. Lafayette officials say the COVID-19 pandemic could be what's causing the jump. The pandemic has caused a plethora of shortages, [...]
RAPIDES PARISH, La. (KLFY) -- Two arrests were made in a cruelty to juveniles case after a Rapides Parish School Resource officer received a report then turned it into the Rapides Parish Sheriff's Office. A months-long investigation led to the arrests, according to a press release from the RPSO. Nathan Adams, 35, of Boyce, was [...]
MELVILLE, La. (KLFY) -- An elderly Melville woman says she went to a local hospital's emergency room, but her jewelry was missing when she was discharged. "When you're passed out on the floor you're not coming to who's thinking about jewelry. They should have come out after they took it off and asked ' is [...]
IBERIA PARISH, La. (KLFY) -- The Westgate High School football team is hoping for a state championship win tonight in the Ceasar's Superdome, and before they left for New Orleans, alumni, and fans packed the stands one final time. No matter what happens in the game, the team is already making history. "Don't underestimate us," [...]
A man from Vermilion Parish is on top of the world. Haiden Richard recently won the 2021 World Championship Duck Calling Contest.
BATON ROUGE, La. (KLFY) -- The Louisiana Department of Health (LDH) on Friday reported one confirmed case of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 in Acadiana, and seven others across the state. None of these new cases have required hospitalization. This brings the total number of Omicron cases in our state to 45 -- 40 probable [...]
A team of researchers at a Japanese university have created a mask using ostrich cells that glows when it detects traces of the coronavirus.
Former NFL wide receiver Joshua Bellamy has been sentenced to over three years in prison for fraudulently receiving coronavirus relief loans.
LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY) -- St. Mary Blvd., between Taft St. and W. St. Landry St., will have lane closures for about four weeks while the road is resurfaced. The project will begin at 7 a.m. on Dec. 13 and is expected to complete by 5 p.m. on Jan. 8, according to a release from Lafayette [...]
