French Settlement News

The governor's office is sending some big time grants for small city and town police crime labs.

Two French Settlement schools were put on lockdown for almost two hours Friday morning because of a gun scare.

Police officers and school officials locked down French Settlement High and Elementary schools for about two hours today after a handgun was found this morning in an unregistered truck in the high school parking lot, authorities said.

French Settlement high and elementary schools had to be put on lockdown Friday morning after the high school principal found a loaded gun on campus.

Three people were injured in a crash involving a school bus Wednesday in French Settlement.

Livingston Parish sheriff's deputies said Thursday one of two suspects wanted in a string of thefts in the Maurepas and French Settlement areas had been captured.

Four people were injured Wednesday afternoon in a head-on collision on La. 16 involving a Livingston Parish school bus, police and school officials said Thursday.

Livingston Parish sheriff's deputies said this afternoon they are looking for two suspects in a string of thefts in the Maurepas and French Settlement areas.

It's not Natchez, as in the Natchez Trace; it's not Nacogdoches, the town in east Texas.

Neither dog fighting nor satanic rituals appear to have been involved in the deaths of a number of animals whose carcasses were found along a creek, Livingston Parish Sheriff Willie Graves said Thursday.

A creek littered with dog carcasses off Highway 42 between Colyell and French Settlement is clean tonight.

Livingston Parish deputies are investigating the disposal of a number of dead dogs and other animal carcasses along a creek between French Settlement and Colyell.

A man searching for his lost dog in Livingston parish came across the unimaginable.

Investigators determined that what appeared to be a home-invasion robbery of three people turned out to be a conspiracy in which only one victim was robbed, said Chief Deputy Jason Ard of the Livingston Parish ...

Family and friends gathered Friday in French Settlement in honor of Kaitlin Aydell.

The Mathernesa TM home is built on property that has been in the family since the 1800s.

Monday afternoon, probation and patrol agents say they went to a home on Pinemont Drive in Livingston to monitor the parole of Daune McMorris, AKA Daune Ricker and determined they needed to arrest her.