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OPELOUSAS, La. (AP) — The public is invited to pay tribute in May to a World War II soldier from St.
OPELOUSAS, La. (AP) — A man and a 4-year-old girl were killed early Wednesday and three other children injured after a fight escalated and gunfire erupted at an apartment complex in southwest Louisiana, authorities said.
OPELOUSAS, La. (AP) — A house fire in southwest Louisiana is under investigation after it claimed the lives of two boys.
FORDOCHE, La. (AP) — A local police officer shot and killed a man who ran his pickup truck into a house, tried to set it on fire and fired a flare gun at responding officers, Louisiana State Police said Thursday.
OPELOUSAS, La. (AP) — A 15-year-old boy was fatally thrown from an SUV when the stolen vehicle crashed and overturned after a chase had ended, Louisiana State Police said.
OPELOUSAS, La. (AP) — The suspect in a string of fires that destroyed three black churches in rural Louisiana is the white son of a sheriff’s deputy whose father helped arrange for his arrest, authorities said Thursday.