Participants in the Louisiana Women, Infants and Children program may begin using their new EBT cards tomorrow. Leslie Lewis, the nutrition operations manager at the Louisiana Department of Health, says these cards are different from the old cards that had to have benefits loaded in person every three months. "Wit...

More than 85 years after he was killed at Pearl Harbor, a Cameron Parish Navy seaman is coming home, and his funeral service will be in Lake Charles Saturday. Louisiana Veterans Affairs Secretary Charlton Meginley says using anthropological and mitochondrial DNA analysis, the Defense Accounting Agency and the Armed For...

A grim milestone in Louisiana's cyclosporiasis outbreak as the state has now confirmed 100 cases of people infected with the parasite that causes explosive diarrhea. State Epidemiologist Theresa Sokol says that's considerably more than the state usually sees in the first seven months of the year. "Over the past fi...

If you're looking for something to do this weekend and you're into the paranormal, may we suggest ParaCon in New Orleans' French Quarter? Event Producer Jennifer Talley says it takes place at the Crowne Plaza Hotel today through Sunday. "It's a collection, an opportunity for people interested in the paranormal; gh...

A fisherman in Vermilion Parish won free beer for a year after catching a tagged redfish during the CCA Louisiana STAR tournament. The statewide tournament tags and releases redfish along the Louisiana coast with prizes from T-shirts to new trucks and boats. Tournament director Micah Denesse says Delcambre local Wayne ...