‘Only with the hand of God’: Lake Charles area begins arduous recovery from Category 4 storm
Sherian Powe sits on the foot of her black leather sofa and clutches the gold cross dangling around her neck.
With a lump forming in her throat, she peers toward the roughly seven-by-four-foot hallway between the bedrooms in the back portion of her two-story home off Old Spanish Trail in Westlake, Louisiana. The passageway is small, almost nondescript relative to the rest of a house affixed with family photos and a scattering of crucifixes on its walls.
Former Mississippi State, EMCC assistant D.J. Looney dies of heart attack at 31
Looney, who was serving as the offensive line coach at Louisiana, suffered a heart attack during a team workout at Cajun Field on Saturday, according to a news release.
Garrick Hodge: Joe Moorhead rumors swirl amid Egg Bowl win
Before Ole Miss and Mississippi State even kicked off, social media ran rampant with speculation Moorhead would be fired from MSU, win or lose, and the school would anoint Louisiana’s Billy Napier as the new coach later in the weekend. The validity of those rumors seems very much in question.
Mississippi State baseball splits a pair of scrimmages with Louisiana
The Bulldogs dropped the first seven-inning game 7-4 to the Ragin’ Cajuns but routed Louisiana 13-2 in the second game.
Getting to know the Louisiana Ragin’ Cajuns
Scott Prather has covered Louisiana football for ESPN1420 for 14 years.
Former MSU walk-on Barrette charged with murder
STARKVILLE — Former Mississippi State walk-on football player Sean Barrette, 22, has been charged with murder in Louisiana according to online records.
Barry’s outer bands begin hitting southeastern Louisiana
Tropical Storm Barry’s wind and rain were starting to hit parts of Louisiana early Friday as New Orleans and coastal communities braced for a drenching from what’s expected to be the first hurricane of the season.
Louisiana governor breaks with Democratic Party on abortion
Nearly three decades ago, when Democratic Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards’ wife was 20 weeks pregnant with their first child, a doctor discovered their daughter had spina bifida and encouraged an abortion. The Edwardses refused.
‘Devastation’ as tornado rips through Louisiana town
A tornado killed two people as it tore through the northern Louisiana city of Ruston early Thursday, sending trees into houses, ripping roofs off buildings and causing a local public university to cancel classes, officials said.
High court takes abortion vote, but key tests still to come
Activists on both sides of the abortion debate are reacting cautiously to a 5-4 Supreme Court vote blocking Louisiana from enforcing new abortion regulations.
Louisiana’s ‘admitting privileges’ abortion law upheld
A federal appeals court panel ruled Wednesday that a Louisiana law requiring that abortion providers have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals does not violate women’s constitutional abortion rights.
Louisiana Senate advances 15-week abortion ban, with caveat
Louisiana senators say they want a federal court to approve the most restrictive abortion policy in the country before a similar measure would take effect in their state.
2 killed on Grambling State campus; shooter at large
A student and his friend were fatally shot at a university in Louisiana after an altercation that began in a dorm room and ended in a courtyard, authorities said Wednesday.
Western Louisiana in crosshairs as Harvey moves back to land
Western Louisiana residents braced for more wind and water early Wednesday as Tropical Storm Harvey made its second landfall after dumping record rainfall on Texas.
SPD taking in supplies for donation to victims of La. flooding
Starkville police and Animal Control agents are collecting supplies for the victims of recent flooding in Louisiana.
110-year-old WWII veteran from Louisiana dies
A 110-year-old Louisiana man who enlisted in the army during World War II to serve his country has died.
La. theater shooter’s journal calls US a ‘filth farm’
The mentally unstable gunman who shot up a Louisiana movie theater last summer left a rambling, hate-filled journal in which he called the U.S. a “filth farm,” railed against women, gays and blacks, and thanked a man accused of killing nine churchgoers in South Carolina for his “wake up call.”
Family ‘got what we wanted’ with marshals’ indictment
A grandmother wept to hear a judge read the indictments of two deputy city marshals on second-degree murder charges for the fatal shooting of her 6-year-old autistic grandson in a small Louisiana town.
Marshals jailed for boy’s shooting death sued in other cases
Two law-enforcement officers jailed on murder charges for a 6-year-old autistic boy’s fatal shooting in central Louisiana have been targets of previous complaints that they used excessive force or neglected their duties.
Lawyer: Body cam showed no threats as police killed boy
A police body camera recorded the father of a 6-year-old autistic boy with his hands up and posing no threat as police fired into his car, severely wounding the motorist and killing his son, the man’s lawyer said Monday.