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Beauregard School Board rejects ITEP request

The Beauregard Parish School Board rejected an industrial tax exemption request for Packaging Corporation of America (PCA) with ...

McNeese Sports

Know your foe: Cards taking flight

In the fall of 1963, Lamar moved into Division I and joined the Southland Conference. However, it has ...

Sports

Hathaway’s Sawyer wins cross country title

Hathaway junior Kaitlyn Sawyer won the state cross country title that had eluded the last few years. She ...

Sports

Friday Night Fights: Welsh benefits from Ferriday, Lake Arthur disqualifications

The Louisiana High School Athletic Association handed down a double-forfeit ruling to Ferriday and Lake Arthur Monday afternoon ...

Sports

Bi-district playoffs rewind: Hornets rally to advance

Grand Lake pulled off another big comeback to extend its high school football season another week. Down by ...

Local News

Students show skills with underwater robotics challenge

Students from Lake Arthur, Jennings and Hathaway made a big splash Monday as they showed off their engineering ...

McNeese Sports

Cowboys wrestle past UNT

Monday night was not for the faint of heart. In a game of bully ball, the Cowboys wrestled ...

World News

Moscow warns US over allowing Ukraine to hit Russian soil with longer-range weapons

The Kremlin warned Monday that President Joe Biden’s decision to let Ukraine strike targets inside Russia with U.S.-supplied longer-range missiles ...

McNeese Sports

QB question surrounds finale

The more things change, the more they truly stay the same. That is especially true it seems when ...

Crime

11/18: Calcasieu Parish Sheriff announces arrest list

The Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s Office reported the following arrests: Jacob Michael Tesko, 21, 1601 Stevenson St., Vinton — ...

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Crime

LC man accused of stealing five cars, burglarizing camper

A Lake Charles man is currently in custody after stealing five vehicles and burglarizing a camper in Allen ...

Local News

27-year-old LC man dies in motorcycle crash

Special to the American Press A 27-year-old Lake Charles man died as the result of a Saturday morning ...

Local News

Specialized pediatric therapy coming to Southwest La.

Southwest Louisiana will soon be one of the few places in the state where special needs children can ...

National News

Court-martialed military veteran sentenced to over 4 years in prison for Capitol riot attack

A former U.S. Army soldier who was court-martialed for fatally shooting a handcuffed civilian in Iraq was sentenced ...

life

PHOTO GALLERY: Glitter & Garland

More than 50 food, craft and merchandise booths, as well as live music and train rides greeted attendees ...

Local News

Jennings Council moves forward with street sign replacement plan despite some objections over cost

The Jennings City Council voted Tuesday to move forward with a nearly $600,000 historic district street sign replacement ...

Football

Hobbs column: Can it get any lower for LSU?

So it turns out LSU went all the way to Florida to announce to the world that — ...

Business

Retail group says holiday shopping sales to grow more slowly

By Kevin Bessler | The Center Square The largest retail group in the country says it expects consumers to ...

Local News

United in gratitude: LC will be only site in state with Vietnam Veterans Memorial

In a country where people are free to disagree — and express those differing opinions  — Veterans Day ...

life

SW La. school lunch menus Nov. 18-22

The following menus for Nov. 18-22 for area schools have been submitted by supervisors of food services. Menus ...