Lake Charles News

Lake Charles Police Department said investigations revealed the victim was standing in the driveway of a friend's residence on Wednesday, February 8 talking on his phone when the suspect vehicle occupied by three or four males pulled up and got out.

A Florida woman whose champion Plott hound was stolen and sold to an unwitting bear hunter now has her dog back, thanks to that hunter's honesty and a bad encounter with an angry bear.

On February 7, the Calcasieu Parish Sheriff's Office arrested convicted sex offender Michael S. Haig, 35, of Lake Charles, and charged him with failure to register as a sex offender, after receiving information from Arkansas State Police that he may be residing in Calcasieu Parish.

Isle said that as planned, following the sale, it has consolidated its operations onto the remaining larger riverboat in Lake Charles, where it will operate 1,262 slot machines, 40 table games and eight poker tables.

New Baton Rouge Community College Chancellor Andrea Lewis Miller is taking over the job next week after interim Chancellor Jim Horton wraps up his duties on Friday.

Don't let another Acadiana family go hungry: this community effort will tackle the issues of hunger in Acadiana and its surrounding cities.

The Joint Legislative Committee on Highway Priorities met in Lake Charles on Wednesday, Feb.

On February 6, Calcasieu Parish Sheriff's Office deputies responded to a home on Tallow Road regarding a report of a burglary.

The events of August and September 2005 still are vivid to many of us in Louisiana, whether in the metropolitan areas of New Orleans and Lake Charles ravaged during the hurricanes or in places that experienced vast disruptions caused by mass evacuations.

The Calcasieu Parish School Board partnered up with the city of Lake Charles and McNeese State University to develop Tuten Park into an indoor and outdoor science classroom.

State coastal restoration and levee projects should be designed to anticipate an average 3.3 feet increase in sea level over the next 100 years, according to a new Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority report.

The Lake Charles , Louisiana, Mardi Gras Museum is housed in a building that was once a school.

Problems from the weekend rainfall continue to surface, but some problems aren't new.

Joshua Kubiak, a senior at the Louisiana School for Math, Science, and the Arts, has been selected as the winner in the 2011-12 Siemens Awards for Advanced Placement and will receive a $2,000 college scholarship.

Brent Wickliffe Fenet McGinley, age 71, of Lake Charles, Louisiana, passed away on Wednesday, February 1, 2012, in her residence, with her family by her side.

The Family Fun Day for National Guard servicemen took place at the Armory located on 1st Avenue in Lake Charles.

The state Office of Public Health says that although drought kept the mosquito population down in Calcasieu last year, two people came down with encephalitis or meningitis from the virus.

The chief executive of LSU's hospital system says hundreds of system employees could lose their jobs as LSU moves to close a $29 million budget hole.

Pollock's Mayor Jerome Scott wasn't about to let a rain storm stop the town's annual Mardi Gras parade, therefore during a lull in the strong downpour he and a few town citizens and their children held the parade in Pollock's city park and just went around the walking trail.

No one, not even the most sunny-side-up Pollyanna, could look back on the BP oil spill and think it... LAKE CHARLES, La.