Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s deputies arrested a Lake Charles couple for cruelty to a juvenile after a 3-year-old is rushed into surgery with a brain injury. Sheriff Tony Mancuso says the stepmother brought the child to the hospital after it appeared the child was having a seizure. She indicated the injuries may be from the father’s disciplinary actions…
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Jessica Matthews and Tyler Laborde are in custody.

The search continues for a man wanted for shooting three people, killing two in Natchitoches on Monday night. Officer John Greely says Jessie James Petite Junior is considered armed and dangerous and it’s a crime that’s left many people heartbroken…
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41-year-old Larry Batiste and 35-year-old Hiram Phillips were pronounced dead.

The LHSAA’s annual convention begins today in Baton Rouge and high school principals are scheduled to vote Friday on proposals that would end the seven-year-old select-nonselect split. But if those proposals are voted down, LHSAA Director Eddie Bonine says the association could vote to widen the split beyond football, basketball, baseball and softball…
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Many people were crying right along with former LSU star Shaquille O’ Neal last night as he spoke on T-N-T’s pregame show about the death of his former teammate Kobe Bryant…
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Bryant and his 13-year-old daughter were among nine killed in a helicopter crash outside of Los Angeles on Sunday.