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The Cajun Music and Food Festival returns for the 37th year
LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) - All day Saturday, Southwest Louisiana let the good time roll at the annual Cajun Music and Food Festival. “It started as a small organization here in Lake Charles and it’s just been bigger and bigger ever since. This is kind of our cumulating moment after a year’s worth of planning,” said Board member of the Cajun French Music Association of Lake Charles Charmaine Anderson.
Deal Is Step Toward Future For MSU
McNeese continues to surge into the future when it comes to finances and college athletics. Last week the school’s athletic department signed a strategic corporate partnership with Lake Charles Memorial Health System worth $2.5 million over three years. It is one of the largest partnerships in the McNeese Athletic...
Hext named to All-Louisiana team
DeQuincy native and now former McNeese State Cowboy left fielder Cooper Hext had an outstanding senior year with the Pokes. It ultimately landed him a spot on the LSWA All-Louisiana baseball team as Hext received Honorable Mention last week. Hext’s senior campaign began with being named to the All-Southland Conference...
FBI Issues Jugging Warning: The 2 Minute Video Every Louisianian Should Watch
The FBI is warning bank customers in Louisiana and nationwide about a trend of crimes referred to as 'jugging'. Groups are camping out at various banks and ATMs, waiting for their ideal victim to target. What is Jugging?. The term 'jugging' is derived from criminals who target people with 'jugs'...
Big week for anglers and hunters; rodeo & DW Expo fill slate
It begins Tuesday with a public meeting focusing on the Atchafalaya Basin, continues Thursday with the opening of the three-day International Grand Isle Tarpon Rodeo, and moves into Friday with the first day of the three-day run of the national Delta Waterfowl Expo inside Baton Rouge’s Raising Cane's River Center.
Local student-athletes to compete in Saturday’s Iowa Shrine Bowl
Several local student-athletes will participate in Saturday’s 2024 Iowa Shrine Bowl, a senior all-star football game with the mission of benefiting Shriner’s Children’s Hospitals. North Squad participants:. Colin Gordon, Grundy Center. Trent Cakerice, Grundy Center. Jaden Damiano, Iowa Falls-Alden. Cheer squad participants:. Kenedie Kolder, Aplington-Parkersburg. MaKayla Beisel,...
Authorities clear up what really happened with Ville Platte Sonic syringe incident
News 15 Investigates is clearing up rumors swirling around about an incident at the Sonic restaurant in Ville Platte. A man is peddling a story that was reported by another media outlet that his child received a bag with food that also contained two discarded syringes and demanding that the Sonic be shut down.
LSU Eunice to hold baseball stadium groundbreaking ceremony July 26
EUNICE, La. – LSU Eunice Baseball will officially kick off the construction of its new stadium with a groundbreaking celebration on Friday, July 26. The ceremony will take place in the shadows of the original Bengal Stadium on the LSUE campus as construction has already commenced. The public is...
Meet the candidates running for Elton mayor
ELTON, La. (KPLC) - Qualifying for the fall election has ended and we now know the two candidates who are running for mayor in the town of Elton. Elton Interim Mayor Mike Pierrotti will have one opponent in this fall’s mayoral election. The city council appointed the former councilman as mayor following the recall of the towns former mayor earlier this year.
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