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Block Parties are Back: McNeese celebrates football season
McNeese State’s Cowboy Block Party, a free concert series celebrating the start of the football season, returns for ...
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Katrina displaced 1.5M across the South, only 61% returned to New Orleans
By Emilee Calametti | The Center Square An estimated 1.5 million people were displaced during Hurricane Katrina across ...
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DeRidder to soon be the site of two Tesla charging stations
DeRidder will soon be the site for two Tesla charging stations for electric vehicles. Mayor Michael Harris and ...
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Sera Black Rodeo promotes showmanship, legacy
Special to the American Press The Southeastern Rodeo Association will present its annual Lake Charles Sera Black Rodeo ...
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BREAKING: Missing woman found dead
The Jeff Davis Parish Sheriff’s Office says the body of a missing Lacassine woman was found Wednesday along ...
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Jim Beam column:Country’s history is changing
President Donald Trump is rewriting American history and that is extremely disturbing. The fact that so many Americans ...
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Hurricane Laura Five Years Later: Photographer captured storm’s havoc, heartbreak
Photographer Kirk Meche has lived in Southwest Louisiana all of his life, but hardly recognized his community after ...
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Hurricane Laura Five Years Later: Sheriff recalls riding out the storm
It’s been five years since Hurricane Laura devastated Southwest Louisiana, but Sheriff Stitch Guillory remembers the night the ...
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Housing community another step in rebuilding after Laura
Five years after Hurricane Laura devastated Southwest Louisiana, Lake Charles is still rebuilding — and a new 78-unit ...
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Louisiana commits $37M to microchip facility in Ruston
By Nolan Mckendry | The Center Square Louisiana taxpayers will help fund a new $370 million secure microchip facility ...
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Allen school district ranks in Top 10 in state for literacy, performance
The Allen Parish school district ranks among the top 10 in both literacy growth and overall literacy performance ...
McNeese Sports
Cowboys to focus on LC
After a long but what they hope has been fruitful training camp, the Cowboys begin their first game ...
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Missing Lacassine woman last seen Friday at RV park
The Jeff Davis Parish Sheriff’s Office is currently searching for a 53-year-old Lacassine woman who was reported missing ...
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75-year-old killed in motorcycle crash
A 75-year-old Kinder man died Saturday following a motorcycle crash on Carpenters Bridge Road west of Simmons Road ...
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Big Brothers Big Sisters looking to add schools, mentors to Lunch Buddy program
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southwest Louisiana’s Lunch Buddy Program makes the impact of mentorship relationships more accessible ...
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‘History Emergent’: Local author tackles ethical ramifications of AI
It’s not uncommon for authors to change their story ideas mid-novel. While some authors meticulously outline their plots, ...
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Some National Guard units in Washington now carrying firearms in escalation of Trump deployment
Some National Guard units patrolling the nation’s capital at the direction of President Donald Trump have started carrying ...
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SW La. school lunch menus Aug. 25-29
The following menus for Aug. 25-29 for area schools have been submitted by supervisors of food services. Menus ...
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Jeff Davis superintendent hoping for growth in enrollment
While student enrollment numbers are still fluctuating in Jeff Davis Parish, school leaders say they are actually gaining ...
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From Air Base to Airpark: City’s ‘can-do’ spirit,’ ability to ‘pick itself up’ led to its greatness
“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take” is a motivational quote attributed to hockey legend Wayne ...
Jim Gazzolo
Gazzolo Column: One man can’t flip it all alone
One man can not scrub away the troubles of a decade. At least not in one cleaning. Nobody ...
McNeese Sports
Back to the Future: Viator to bring back glory days
Hoping history repeats itself, McNeese State brings back its winningest coach to flip its football program. Matt Viator ...
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The Informer: Chemical plants dedicated to producing war materials
The great war plants on the Calcasieu Ship Channel had a two-fold job in the 1940s — producing ...
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Jim Beam column:Elections Trump’s next target
The fact that Republican President Donald Trump doesn’t like mail-in voting and voting machines comes as no surprise. ...
Crime
Man found guilty of rape, molestation 25 years after crimes
Special to the American Press Choi Van Leo, 60, Spirit Lake, Iowa, was found guilty as charged Thursday ...