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Researchers from the LSU AgCenter and students from Nicholls State University recently collected alligator gar at the LSU AgCenter Aquaculture Research Station in Baton Rouge in an effort to improve the fish populations in areas where they are no longer found.

The Legislature has agreed electronic cigarettes shouldn't be sold to anyone under the age of 18 in Louisiana.

According to Vermilion Parish Sheriff Mike Couvillon, a Gueydan police officer has been arrested for Unauthorized Use of an “Access Card” and Malfeasance in Office.

Three days of events this week will mark the 150th anniversary of a time during the Civil War when Avoyelles Parish was under attack by an invading army.

A former exotic dance admitted Thursday that she poisoned a Crowley businessman who disappeared in 1984.