Jonesboro’s Fire Chief and a Jackson Parish Sheriff’s deputy face insurance fraud charges involving a two-vehicle crash of fire department vehicles. Trooper Mike Reichardt says State Police received a tip in August and found Chief Brandon Brown and Deputy George Wyatt were involved and listed as the drivers…:

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The two men have been charged with insurance fraud, filing or maintaining false public records, and malfeasance in office.

Two children were tragically killed in a house fire early this morning in St. Landry Parish. Opelousas Fire Chief Charles Mason says they received a call shortly before 1:30 am of a house fire where six people resided. He says only four escaped…:

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Another child was taken to the hospital. The fire is under investigation.

The Dash Diet which was developed in part by LSU’s Pennington Biomedical Research Center is once again ranked as one of the top diets by U-S News and World Report. Erik Piccoli has more…:

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Governor John Bel Edwards will posthumously pardon Homer Plessy today. Plessy was the plaintiff in the 1896 U.S. Supreme Court case, which upheld the “separate but equal” doctrine that allowed for decades of segregation of black Americans.