Five Louisiana children from the Marksville area heading to Disney World were killed in a multi-vehicle wreck on Interstate 75 in north Florida on Thursday. Jeff Palermo has the latest…
The St. Landry’s Veterans Memorial in Opelousas has been defaced with racial slurs and other profanities by vandals and investigators are looking for the culprits. Project organizer of the memorial, Pat Mason-Guillory says the community has reached out to assist in the cleanup effort.
St. Landry Detectives are working the case.
The Lafayette Public Library has agreed to lift a ban on groups hoping to organize Drag Queen Story Time events after a lawsuit from the ACLU. After legal action from an anti-Story Time group, visitors hoping to hold events had to sign a form promising not to do a Drag event at the library, and ACLU Louisiana Legal Director Katie Schwartzmann says that same group has a history of attacking Story Times.
Democrats have settled into control of the Lower Chamber, led by Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and it’s the first time a new Congress has arrived to a government shutdown, and the Congressional split means any plan to re-open will have to be a bi-partisan agreement. Congressman Clay Higgins says Republicans are sticking to their guns over border wall funding.
President Trump says he won’t sign any funding that re-opens the government unless it includes 5.7 billion in border wall funding.