A RAVE active shooter alert was triggered at Pine Wood Elementary School in DeRidder Wednesday morning, just after 11:20 a.m. The Beauregard Parish School Board and DeRidder Police Department ...

SULPHUR — Pecan Street to Pamela Street will be partially closed 5-8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 31, to allow for trick-or-treating. Use extra caution while driving in the area and watch for pedestrians. The ...

Bobby Nick Haynes, 94, passed away on Saturday, Oct. 17, 2026 in a local hospital. He was born in Alpine, Ky. to Cheerful and Ruby Haynes and had been a resident of Sulphur for nearly 70 years. Mr.

Louisiana has agreed to accept about $350 million from BP rather than collect $373 million over the next seven years, trading $23 million in future payments for immediate access to the remaining money ...

John Byron Chamblee, 90, of Carlyss, La., passed away peacefully on Oct. 18, 2026, three months after his 90th birthday. Byron was born July 16, 1936, in the Sulphur Mines to Woodrow and Leola Hollier ...

A DeRidder man was sentenced this week to life in prison for sexually assaulting a woman at gunpoint inside a local motel. Michael Carter Jr., 45, was ordered by Judge C. Kerry Anderson on Thursday to ...

The Sculptry, Southwest Louisiana’s premier medical aesthetics clinic, has expanded its leadership team with the announcement of new positions for key staff members. Amber Pauley, RN, is moving into ...

Drunk drivers are continuing to kill fellow Americans, and the death of two people in Baton Rouge last weekend has been extremely disturbing for me and many other people. They were a firefighter who ...

Vernon David Wingate, 85, passed away peacefully on Oct. 23, 2026, surrounded by his family. Vernon was a graduate of LaGrange High School, and attended McNeese State University with a degree in ...

Robert Lynn “Tiny” Rutherford, 76, of Lake Charles, La., passed away peacefully on Oct. 14, 2026. He was born on Mar. 30, 1950, in Lake Charles and was raised in DeRidder by his grandfather, Edward ...

Marie Davis passed away peacefully in her sleep on Oct. 19 at the young age of 97. She was born in Tibbie, Ala. to Thomas Jones and Minnie Howard Jones and was raised in Tate’s Hell, Florida. Marie ...