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Pirate Night At The Ballfield This Weekend
Ahoy! Join the swashbuckling fun on July 20th when Pirate Night sets sail! The Lake Charles Gumbeaux Gators take on the Seguin River Monsters this Saturday night. Swashbucklers, marauders, raiders, buccaneers and scoundrels from all over Southwest Louisiana are encouraged to take in the ball game in their best roguish garb!
Curious Louisiana tells the story of a Louisiana Olympian who competed in Hitler's shadow
He was 17 years old and had never traveled outside of Louisiana. Yet, there William Tennant Brown sat on an ocean liner bound for Berlin, his teammates by his side. The year was 1936, and Brown would be competing against the world in the shadow of Adolf Hitler. One of his teammates, a young African American man named Jesse Owens would win four gold medals.
Credit card skimmer found at Dollar Tree in Lafayette
LAFAYETTE, La. (KADN) — It's happened yet again. There's been another credit card skimmer found at a Dollar Tree store in Acadiana. The latest device turned up at the Dollar Tree store off Evangeline Thruway in Lafayette. A customer discovered the skimmer after having trouble putting their card into...
Acadiana's powerlifting ladies train for world championships
Five powerful ladies from Acadiana will be representing the United States in the Powerlifting World Championships in August on the island of Malta, which is just south of Sicily, in the Mediterranean Sea. All five ladies have been or currently are LHSAA powerlifting state champions. Tags. Localnow.
Iowa Basketball Recruiting Buzz: Intel from Under Armour Finals
BEDFORD PARK, Ill. - 247Sports was at the Wintrust Center in Bedford Park, Illinois just outside of Chicago this weekend for the Under Armour Finals and the last live period of July calendar. Here are tidbits and takeaways from the weekend.
Louisiana Residents Should Brace for More of These Bloodsucking Menaces
LAFAYETTE, La. (KPEL News) - With summer comes a lot more tropical showers in Louisiana, and with those showers comes one of the natural predators of the Louisiana resident, the mosquito. With a lot of rain expected in the coming days throughout south Louisiana, we can see places that are...
Softball, Baseball and Iowa Football on Sports Beat This Week
This week’s edition of the Mort’s Water Company sports beat will feature the following interviews:. Hampton-Dumont-CAL Softball Coach Kelsey Enslin to recap season, West Fork Softball Coach Sadie Winfrey to talk about postseason run to state tournament, North Butler Baseball Coach Chase Stohr to talk about offseason work and Iowa Falls-Alden alum and Iowa football player Karson Sharar joins the show to talk about experience at Iowa and NIL.
Lake Charles Girlie Girls Present A Community Hygiene Drive
Lake Charles' Girlie Girls Mentoring Program is proudly teaming up with Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. and Zeta Psi Omega Chapter to collect and distribute essential hygiene products for girls and women in the community. This is an annual initiative by the young ladies of this local mentoring group. The...
Air Travel Grounded – Louisiana Passengers Call Your Airline
There appears to be a major IT issue involving several of the airlines that serve airports in Lafayette, Lake Charles, Shreveport, New Orleans, and Baton Rouge this morning. The issue is not just confined to Louisiana airports nor is it confined exclusively to the airline industry. Since many of you...
Louisiana OMV encourages customers to reschedule due to CrowdStrike outage
The Louisiana OMV said it is "experiencing varying degrees of outages" at its field offices statewide due to the global outage, and is encouraging customers who had appointments for Friday, July 19, to reschedule.
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