A Calcasieu Parish jury has found a southwest Louisiana man guilty of murder in the brutal death of a 72-year-old woman in 2023. District Attorney Stephen Dwight says after 43-year-old Christopher Cater killed Sheila Ortega, he drove around with the woman's body for a month. "The line about what happened, where he...

The longtime face of New Orleans Mardi Gras is calling it a career. Arthur Hardy, the longtime publisher of the Mardi Gras Guide magazine, says after a half century, the 2026 edition will be his last. "I'm 79. I'll be 80 next year and at some point, you've got to leave the party. We figured our 50th anniversary Ma...

We are looking at a dry weekend across the state and abnormally dry conditions have developed across south Louisiana and along the Arkansas border. State Climatologist Jay Grymes says nearly half of the state is on the verge of drought conditions according to the Drought Monitor. "We've seen rainfall totals over t...

This week, the Fed dropped interest rates by a quarter point and indicated that there may be two more rate cuts by the end of the year. So what does that mean for consumers like you and me? Rajesh Narayanan, a professor of finance at LSU, says if you're hoping that the rate cut will mean a lower rate on your mortgage, ...

The Trump administration is allocating more than $400 million in additional federal funding to Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Grambling University President Dr. Martin Lemelle says that's over and above the funding the schools received in the previous fiscal year, and part of that money would go towards ...