The lone surviving passenger from Saturday’s fatal plane crash in Lafayette that killed five people remains in critical condition, but there is hope Wade Berzas will survive despite burns to over 75-percent of his body. Doctor Joey Barrios, medical director of the Our Lady of Lourdes Burn Unit, says Berzas is recovering after undergoing a two-hour surgery today…
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Barrios says Berzas has a long journey ahead, but he’ll receive around the clock care.
A Judge temporarily halts a California law banning the sale of alligator products in the Golden State, a law officials say would devastate gator conservation efforts in the Bayou State. The gator population is thriving in Louisiana, with over two million in the wild, and 800,000 on farms, and Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries General Counsel Cole Garrett says the ruling buys Louisiana time to save them…
Two teens from Morse are dead following a wreck on I-10 in Acadia Parish just before 8 o’clock last night. Trooper Thomas Gossen says impairment is unknown, but it appears the driver may have been competing with another vehicle.
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Both men were pronounced dead at the scene. The crash remains under investigation.
50-year-old Felicia Payne of Alexandria is behind bars for the holidays after allegedly drunk driving into the State Police Troop E building.
State Police Trooper Scott Moreau says thankfully Payne didn’t hit anyone after crashing into the office, but she did cause extensive damage.
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Moreau says the it was a real shock for troopers to have a drunk driver plow into their office at 5 AM.