1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (135+ words) INDEPENDENCE —- An early morning crash on Saturday has left a 38-year-old man dead. It was around 5:20 a.m. on Sept. 12 when Louisiana State Police Troopers responded to a single-vehicle crash on Highway 40 at Huck Road in Tangipahoa Parish. James M. Crawford,…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (311+ words) CENTRAL — A former “non-faculty coach” at Central High School pleaded guilty Tuesday in a 2025 sexual encounter with a student, according to court records. Aujyri Harris, 23, pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of obscenity and will not have to register as…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (329+ words) Local sheriff’s offices are asking for children and parents to exercise caution surrounding online hoaxes that involve social media and disturbing images and videos. Threatening “Cat in the Hat” videos have circulated in other parishes, officials say. According to the…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (212+ words) Shannon has called Livingston Parish home for most of her life. Her passion for delivering truthful news began as a child, and she started her journalism career more than a decade ago at LSU. After a hiatus from journalism to…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (131+ words) ST. FRANCISVILLE — A woman died after a crash on Hwy. 66 in West Feliciana Parish on Monday morning. The crash happened just after 5 a.m. on Monday, Aug. 31, according to Louisiana State Police. Troopers responded to the scene of a single-vehicle crash…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (95+ words) MARINGOUIN —- A fire that started on Monday morning has now been extinguished and the State Fire Marshal is in route to investigate the fire that left a mother and child dead. The fire broke out around 6 a.m. on August 31 at…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (1381+ words) MARINGOUIN — Regina Harris handmade the pillow that was used as a makeshift silencer by the man who murdered her husband in his sleep in 2024. That burgundy and gold diamond-patterned pillow with a bullet hole sat in a clear acrylic case…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (331+ words) COLUMBUS, OHIO — Katie Tanton, an 11-year-old Denham Springs girl who is fighting Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG), a rare and aggressive terminal brain cancer that primarily affects children, is facing a new medical setback. “Her tumor has progressed into a…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (257+ words) Shannon has called Livingston Parish home for most of her life. Her passion for delivering truthful news began as a child, and she started her journalism career more than a decade ago at LSU. After a hiatus from journalism to…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (437+ words) BATON ROUGE — A 19-year-old woman, who police say was dealing drugs, was fatally shot during a July robbery by someone pretending to be a customer, East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office records show. An 18-year-old man has been arrested in Tre’asure…...