The grand prize for tonight’s Mega Millions drawing is a whopping 970-million dollars, which is the second-largest lottery jackpot in U-S history. The odds of winning are 1 in 302,575,350. Lottery lawyer Jason Kirkland says if you do win, immediately sign your ticket and don’t brag until you bring the lucky ticket to lottery officials…
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Louisiana joined Mega Millions in 2012 and there’s never been a grand prize winner in this multi-state lottery game.

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement says they’ve arrested one of their most wanted fugitives during a targeted operation in Acadia Parish. Jose Melchor Martinez, also known as Jose Luis Martinez-Sanchez, is a Mexican national who was in the country illegally and has been convicted of taking indecent liberties with a child in North Carolina in 2002. He was arrested at a home in Church Point.

Some serious hardware will be on display at the Hammond Regional Airport for the return of its Regional Air Show that will run from 11 AM to 4 PM on Saturday and Sunday…
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University of Louisiana at Lafayette will formally turn over more than 100-thousand preserved crabs, shrimp, lobsters and other crustaceans to the Smithsonian Museum in Washington DC today. Darryl Felder collected and preserved the specimens during his 40-year-old tenure at the University…
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