Authorities have found a missing 14-year-old girl from Tennessee living in a tent in a wooded area of Tangipahoa Parish. Twenty-eight-year-old Alexander Materne from St. Rose in St. Charles Parish has been arrested in her disappearance. Authorities say the two met while playing an online game and Materne went to Tennessee to get her. The two allegedly engaged in sexual acts in St. Rose and then she was brought to Tangipahoa Parish while Materne celebrated Christmas with his family in Jennings.

A young boy is killed in a Christmas morning house fire in Richland Parish….

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For the fourth straight year, Louisiana will have a float in the Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, California on January 1^st. The theme of this year’s float is Louisiana Saturday Night and Lt. Governor Billy Nungesser says it will illustrate what a Saturday night in Louisiana is like. Nungesser says more than 100 Louisianians will help decorate the float…

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The float features a giant playful alligator wearing Mardi Gras beads, a Cajun Dance Hall and rising country music star Timothy Wayne will sing the iconic song “Louisiana Saturday Night.”

The origin of crawfish and shrimp and other seafood must be clearly labeled because of a new law that goes into effect on January 1^st. Marrero Senator Patrick Connick authored the legislation…

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Connick says businesses who try to mislead the consumer with where the seafood originated from will face thousands of dollars fines.