The Louisiana Department of Health (LDH) is now reporting a fourth COVID-19-related death in connection with Multi-system Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C).
With the growing concern surrounding the health and safety due to COVID-19, the Big Ten has made the announcement to cancel the 2020 football season, according to Sports Illustrated’s Ross Dellenger and multiple media reports.
Former LSU and current Bengals rookie quarterback Joe Burrow took to social media on Monday, August 10, to give sympathy and support to college football players due to the uncertainty of a season amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The main weather player in our forecast for the next few days will be an upper level high pressure system centered west of our area. This will be close enough to limit rain chances to levels below normal for this time of year.
Give the umbrellas a break today as we’ll likely only see one or two very isolated showers across all of Southwest Louisiana today with plenty of sunshine.
Power Five conference commissioners held an “emergency meeting” on Sunday, August 9, to talk about the feasibility of playing the 2020 college football season in the fall, according to ESPN, which cited several sources.
With more children at home, experts across the nation are predicting higher rates of human trafficking, and with many students being schooled virtually, the cause for concern is even higher.
The Sabine Pass Lighthouse, originally constructed in 1857, has not only lived through countless hurricanes but was also the site of a Civil War battle.
It’s a big decision this year - school in-person or online. Parents and guardians are weighing their options, but for one great grandparent in the Lake Area, the decision was easy. It’s what comes after that is making her nervous.
Angie Graves was working at the Subway at White’s Travel Center along Interstate 81/64 on Thursday morning when she spied country music star Kane Brown.
With LSU students set to return to campus on August 24, Interim LSU President Tom Galligan and Student Body President Stone Cox, sent out a letter to students on Thursday, August 6, welcoming them back to campus for the fall semester.
Schools in Calcasieu, Allen, Beauregard, Cameron, Jeff Davis and Vernon have announced plans for the 2020-2021 school year with details on how they’ll reopen in August.
This month marks one year since the arrest of a Beauregard Parish school bus driver, accused of endangering students by driving her route while under the influence of a prescription sleep aid. Tammie Gibson sits down with KPLC’s Rhonda Kitchens.
A deputy with the Jeff Davis Sheriff’s Department died of COVID-19 Tuesday. Claude Winston Guillory, 63, worked in law enforcement for more than 30 years, according to Chief Deputy Chris Ivey.
Governor John Bel Edwards said during a news conference Tuesday, Aug. 4 he will be issuing a new executive order to keep the state in Phase Two of the White House’s guidelines for reopening for another 21 days
The biggest worry is for the nearly 400,000 Louisiana residents currently on unemployment. With some first-time unemployment claims still coming in, he says action has to be taken pretty quickly.
"I find that there is probable or sufficient cause to believe that the defendant Chad Daybell committed the offenses counts one through four, as designated in the criminal complaint," said Judge Faren Eddins in Idaho.
Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards and the governors of five other states announced a major bipartisan interstate compact with the Rockefeller Foundation today to expand the use of rapid point-of-care antigen tests to slow the spread of COVID-19 and continue safely reopening the states.
Several videos of the explosion have been posted to social media, many of those shot as people in the area were already videoing a plume of smoke rising from the blast location. WARNING: These videos are graphic.
The forecast for our Tuesday won’t be a whole lot different than how we started the workweek, as temperatures heat up quickly with lots of sunshine to start the morning. A few hit-or-miss storms this afternoon are possible.
Developed with entertainment industry input, the guidelines are designed to ensure the safety of Louisiana residents and anyone working on a motion picture production as the movie and TV industry gets back to business in Louisiana.
Even before the first case of COVID-19 was reported in Southwest Louisiana, Dr. Kohler says at Lake Charles Memorial they prepared well in advance. However, suiting up every day to battle an invisible enemy with very real victims has posed some difficult challenges.
