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• Injury toll climbs to 19 from crash at Louisiana Lao New Year celebration Play Video

  April 5, 2026 6:08 PM

  COTEAU — An intoxicated driver drove through a crowd at the Laotian New Year's Festival in Coteau on Saturday, leaving 19 people injured. According to the Louisiana State Police, 57-year-old Todd Landry of Jeanerette was arrested after his vehicle crashed into a crowd of parade-goers attending a festival at... more »

• Drunken driver plows into Lao festival in southwestern Louisiana, injuring 18 Play Video

  April 4, 2026 4:10 PM

  COTEAU — An intoxicated driver injured 18 people Saturday when he drove through a Mardi Gras-style Laotian New Year's festival in Coteau, Louisiana State Police said. Thousands of revelers, some on foot, some on makeshift floats and some on golf carts, snaked through a Laotian community between Broussard and... more »

• Multiple Baton Rouge neighborhoods lose power after tree falls on power line along Broussard Street Play Video

  March 16, 2026 7:43 AM

  BATON ROUGE — Several Baton Rouge residents across multiple neighborhoods lost power after a tree fell on a power line on Monday morning. The Baton Rouge Fire Department said the tree knocked down a power line along Broussard Street near St. Rose Avenue, knocking out power in the immediate... more »

• Law enforcement escort body of Deputy Charles W. Riley from Broussard to Gonzales funeral home Play Video

  October 8, 2025 10:29 AM

  GONZALES — The body of Iberville Parish Sheriff's Deputy Charles W. Riley , who was shot and killed at the parish courthouse on Monday, was escorted from Broussard to a funeral home in Gonzales on Wednesday afternoon. Riley's body was escorted to Ourso Funeral Home on Airline Highway, with... more »

• Prairieville home's garage catches fire early Friday morning; cause unknown

  August 16, 2024 10:52 AM

  PRAIRIEVILLE — A home caught fire early Friday morning in Prairieville, fire officials said. Prairieville Fire Department crews were dispatched to the residential structural fire on JD Broussard Road around 12:35 a.m. According to fire officials, the fire started in the home's garage and the occupants had already left... more »