Multiple wildfires are taking place throughout the state. State officials are urging the public to follow the statewide burn ban. Agriculture and Forestry Commissioner Mike Strain says violators could face jail time, fines and could be forced to pay restitution for loss of property…
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An arrest has been made in connection to one of the wildfires that erupted near Rosepine in Vernon Parish yesterday. Sheriff Sam Craft says Paul Nash faces two felony arson charges for violating the state’s burn ban. Craft says Nash lit a brush pile in his backyard on fire and it quickly spread…
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In Beauregard Parish, the town of Merryville is under a mandatory evacuation, a shift in the winds last night has spared the town of one-thousand people.

A jury needed only six hours to return a unanimous guilty verdict against 39-year-old Joey Clement of Thibodaux for killing three teenagers in a fatal crash in 2021. Assistant District Attorney Shaun George says Clement was speeding and driving under the influence…
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Clement crashed his Ford F-150 into their SUV head-on on Highway 20 north of Thibodaux.

At the Southeast Louisiana Veteran’s Cemetery in Slidell today, New Orleans native Clarence Thompson will be laid to rest. Thompson worked as a cook on the USS Oklahoma when it was destroyed during the attack on Pearl Harbor…
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That’s Thompson’s cousin Denise Bennett. Thompson’s return home is part of the Navy’s Project Oklahoma which has identified the remains of 355 sailors since 2015 through DNA.