As the opening of hunting seasons approaches Saturday, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries is alerting anyone using Thistlethwaite Wildlife Management Area in St. Landry Parish that the bridge crossing Bayou Wauksha on the east end of Ricefield Road is closed.
A 24-year-old Sulphur man is accused of throwing a 13-month-old child against a wall, resulting in the toddler’s death.
Tthe child was taken to a hospital Saturday morning and died Monday morning.
If police had taken a man into custody as he was, he would have been easier to locate when he ran.
Morgan City police went into an abandoned house after a complaint Sunday night that two people had been seen going into it and carrying a mattress.
A restaurant with a passing role in a Kevin Costner movie burned to the ground Monday night.
Fire crews were able to keep the Olive Street Bistro flames from spreading to an adjacent apartment building.
A passenger who grabbed the steering wheel from an unlicensed and alleged drunk driver to avoid a head-on collision with an 18-wheeler was killed when the car left the road and hit a tree.
