It’s Mardi Gras Day a fun filled day of parades across south Louisiana. Mardi Gras in the City of Eunice is not your typical idea of Mardi Gras. Instead of beads and doubloons, revelers chase chickens in colorful costumes. City of Eunice Events Coordinator, Courtney Elkins…
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Elkins says the chasing of chickens is a tradition everyone loves to participate in.

New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell is facing another controversy as there’s video of her giving the bird to a float in the Tucks Parade, which was poking fun at Cantrell’s alleged affair with her bodyguard, who is also a New Orleans Police officer. Political analyst Clancy Dubos…
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More than a century ago an 18-year-old girl from New Orleans led the charge to have women included in Mardi Gras parades. Brooke Thorington has more.
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The Iberia Parish Sheriff’s Office says 19-year-old Caiden Sheridan wanted in the shooting death of another person on Sunday night was captured in Lake Charles. Sheridan is back in Iberia Parish and was booked on one count of second degree murder. No bond has been set and no other information has been made available.