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Poll: Pelican Seafood & Poboy in Pineville has the best chicken wings
Where can you go in the Alexandria/Pineville area to get good chicken wings? According to a Town Talk readers’ poll, it’s Pelican Seafood & Poboy in Pineville. The restaurant located at 2708 Highway 28 East won with 25.58 percent of the votes. Buffalo Wild Wings, 2711 S. MacArthur Drive, in Alexandria came in second with 20.93 percent. Twenty restaurants were listed in the poll. This article originally appeared on Alexandria Town Talk: Poll: Pelican Seafood & Poboy in Pineville has the best chicken wings
Suspect in Lake Charles double homicide, home invasion arrested at plant in Groves
GROVES, Texas — A man accused of killing his ex-girlfriend and her boyfriend in Lake Charles was arrested at his job in Groves on Thursday afternoon. Sheltren Terel Tucker, 38, was located and arrested by the U.S. Marshals Service and the Port Arthur Police Department on two counts of first-degree murder and one count of home invasion.
Tropical Models Raising Concerns for Louisiana & Gulf of Mexico
Louisiana parents know the eerie feeling that quietness can bring on. For example, you're working in your home office, and the kids are supposed to be playing. But you don't hear them; they are being quiet—too quiet. That's when a parent's "spidey senses" start tingling because they know they could literally be seconds from disaster.
Don’t Wear White After Labor Day – Louisiana, Do You Know Why?
In Morgan City, Louisiana the booths are being prepared, the stages are being built, the power lines are being run, and the funnel cakes are about to be dropped into the grease. It is the annual celebration of seafood and oil that's known as the Louisiana Shrimp and Petroleum Festival.
Underage Drinkers in Louisiana Have More Rights Than You Think
Football season is about to hit Louisiana like a Dustin Poirier right hand to the jaw. It gets underway with High School Jamborees in Lafayette, Lake Charles, Shreveport, Baton Rouge, New Orleans, and just about every other community in the state. Most of those jamborees will take place either tonight or Friday. Then we start the college football season on Saturday and the professional football season will begin their games on September 5th.
Heads Up Lake Charles And SWLA, CPSO Conducting DWI Checkpoint This Weekend
The Labor Day weekend is almost here which means a long weekend for most folks as they will all be off on Monday, September 2nd, 2024. Also, this weekend is the kickoff to college football. The McNeese Cowboys will be playing here in Lake Charles and LSU will be live on television on Sunday night So most people will go out tailgating for the pokes or holding LSU football parties at their homes or go out to a restaurant or bar to watch the game.
Don’t Wear White After Labor Day – Louisiana, Do You Know Why?
In Morgan City, Louisiana the booths are being prepared, the stages are being built, the power lines are being run, and the funnel cakes are about to be dropped into the grease. It is the annual celebration of seafood and oil that's known as the Louisiana Shrimp and Petroleum Festival.
Louisiana Blue Named Official Health Insurance of LSU Athletics
BATON ROUGE — Two Louisiana institutions – LSU Athletics and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana – have announced a new, multi-year, multimedia rights partnership. Louisiana Blue is now the Official Health Insurance of LSU Athletics. “We are thrilled to partner with LSU Athletics as the...
Stormy times ahead with heavy rains possible
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Stormy periods are on the way as a wet pattern settles in along the Gulf Coast heading into the holiday weekend. A quiet early morning will give way to a stormy lunch and afternoon period today. Rain chances are up to 80% and some of those storms will be quite heavy. Even though we’ve been dry, street flooding is a possibility due to the tropical downpours that are possible. The benefit to the clouds and rain will be temperature generally staying in the 80s through the day.
SWLA Arrest Report - August 28, 2024
LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) - The Calcasieu Correctional Center booking report for August 28, 2024. Ronrika Cortez Ben, 39, Lafaette: Theft under $5,000; burglary of an inhabited dwelling (2 charges); theft under $25,000; burglary of an inhabited dwelling (2 charges); aggravated burglary; possession of a firearm by a person previously convicted of felonies (2 charges); theft of a firearm; instate detainer (7 charges); aggravated burglary; theft of a firearm; burglary.
City, state leaders push to honor Hurricane Katrina as a Louisiana holiday
NEW ORLEANS — Nineteen years ago one of America's deadliest hurricanes struck the city of New Orleans. Hurricane Katrina was a category three storm that ended up being one of the country's most costly natural disasters. Nearly two decades on, the city is still healing. Now city and state...
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