Three people are dead and three others injured after a train collided with a car stopped on the tracks in New Iberia. State Police Master Trooper Brooks David says they are working to determine why the car was stopped on the tracks. He says investigators did speak to witnesses…

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70-year-old Phyllis Leblanc of New Iberia and two minors were killed in the crash. At last report, the three injured were listed in critical condition.

The search for a three year old child who wandered away from his house near Crowville in Franklin Parish Monday night, ended tragically Tuesday morning. Franklin Parish Sheriff Kevin Cobb says they located the body of the child around 7am Tuesday…

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Cobb says they learned that the child left the residence while everyone was sleeping.

Tonight’s Powerball jackpot is worth an estimated $227 million. Louisiana Lottery spokesperson Kimberly Chopin says since 2009, of the holiday jackpots that were over $100 million dollars, 5 of them were hit during the Christmas drawing…

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New Census numbers show Louisiana added nearly 22-thousand residents to its population from July 1st 2014 to July of this year, but demographer Elliot Stonecipher says the state finished with a net loss of 74-hundred residents, when you look at migration totals within the United States. Louisiana lost a Congressional district following the 2010 census, but Stonecipher doesn’t see that happening in 2020, unless there’s a massive loss of jobs in the oil industry, because of low oil prices

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