June 23, 2021 LSU pitcher's father dead in Amite River tubing accident, sheriff says The father of LSU pitcher Ma'Khail Hilliard died in a water accident while tubing on the Amite River in Louisiana over Father's Day weekend, authorities said.
June 22, 2021 Britney Spears' father Jamie returns to Kentwood, La. amid conservatorship battle: report "Toxic" singer Britney Spears' father Jamie has returned to her hometown of Kentwood, Louisiana where he is staying in an RV on the outskirts of town.
June 19, 2021 Tropical Storm Claudette ravages Gulf Coast, tracking northeast Tropical Storm Claudette formed early Saturday morning and was tracked moving along the Gulf Coast before it made landfall,
June 18, 2021 National weather forecast: Heat continues to threaten West, tropical storm warnings issued for Gulf Coast A disturbance in the southwestern Gulf of Mexico is becoming better organized and will likely evolve into a tropical or subtropical depression on Friday.
June 18, 2021 Tropical system expected to bring heavy rainfall, flooding to northern Gulf Coast Forecasters predict a tropical system will bring heavy rain, storm surge and coastal flooding to the northern Gulf Coast as early as Friday and throughout the weekend.
June 17, 2021 Tropical storm warning in effect as storm barrels toward Gulf Coast Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards declared a state of emergency on Thursday ahead of a potential tropical cyclone that will likely hit his state and parts of Mississippi and Alabama on Friday.
June 16, 2021 Louisiana man, 78, arrested in 1977 cold-case murder of wife, investigators say A 78-year-old Louisiana man has been arrested in the murder of his wife nearly 44 years after she was found dead with a bullet in her back, investigators said Saturday.
June 16, 2021 National weather forecast: Heat warnings, advisories widespread across West Excessive heat warnings and heat advisories remain widespread across the West over the next several days as daytime highs reach into the 100s and 110s for many locations.
June 15, 2021 Louisiana private firefighting company to spray foam onto massive Illinois chemical plant fire A private firefighting company from Louisiana will begin spraying foam to suppress the massive blaze burning at an Illinois chemical plant after the building was rocked by an explosion Monday, officials said.
June 14, 2021 Steve Scalise recognizes anniversary of GOP baseball shooting: 'We must never defund the police' The number two House Republican recognized the fourth anniversary of the shooting by a supporter of Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., with a tweet that lauded law enforcement for saving his life and others “from a leftist who came to the baseball field to kill Republican Members of Congress.”