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• Traditional Cajun Mardi Gras continues in Mamou Play Video

  March 1, 2022 6:02 PM

  MAMOU- In Evangeline Parish, the traditional Cajun Mardi Gras is a bit different than New Orleans. Instead of riding around on floats, revelers ride from house to house on horseback in colorful homemade costumes. "We're like the old-time Mardi Gras, that first started," said Gary Brignac, one of several... more »

• Soul Food Festival returns to downtown Baton Rouge Play Video

  June 26, 2021 5:49 PM

  BATON ROUGE - A taste of normalcy returns to feed the soul of Baton Rouge. "I'm really excited that it's opening back up," said Melba Braud with Rita's Italian Ice and Creamery. From sweet to savory and everything in between, hundreds of people showed up for the 4th... more »

• Former longtime UL Lafayette President Dr. Ray P. Authement dies at 91

  April 5, 2020 10:57 PM

  LAFAYETTE - The longest-serving public university president in the United States died Sunday, April 5. Dr. Ray P. Authement, 91, was the president of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette for 34 years. He was the president from 1974 and retired in 2008. Dr. Joseph Savoie, current UL... more »

• Mais, dat's cute! Cajun, Yat ranked among sexiest accents in the USA

  May 15, 2019 12:09 PM

  LAFAYETTE - Cajuns and New Orleanians are some of the sexiest-sounding people in America, according to clickbait from a digital travel and tourism social media influence website. Big 7 Travel ranked the 50 “ sexiest accents in the USA ” by aggregating surveys results of its 1.5 million social... more »

• Hemp and CBD take big steps toward legalization in Louisiana Play Video

  May 7, 2019 11:50 PM

  BATON ROUGE - Louisiana state lawmakers are working to reverse a decades-old ban on hemp which has caused confusion and outrage among consumers of popular hemp-derived CBD products. Nearly every member of the Louisiana House of Representatives voted Tuesday evening for a bill that would regulate hemp cultivation and... more »

• Livingston sheriff thanks Bass Pro for its help during 2016 flood

  December 7, 2017 12:28 PM

  DENHAM SPRINGS - The Livingston Parish Sheriff's Office took to a local Bass Pro Shops Thursday in order to thank the store and its workers for their help during last year's historic flood. With water levels reaching a record high in Livingston Parish last August, the sheriff's office was... more »

• Chickens run wild at Tee-Mamou Mardi Gras Play Video

  February 9, 2016 12:50 PM

  IOTA - The Tee-Mamou Mardi Gras celebrated Fat Tuesday cajun style with singing, dancing and chasing chickens. "It's all about the tradition. It doesn't have anything to do with anything other than tradition," said reveler John McCrory. "All the younger Mardi Gras we make them do the traditional things like... more »

• "Shakespeare in the Swamp" Play Video

  August 24, 2015 9:17 AM

  BATON ROUGE- Local actors are getting ready to perform some classic plays with a Cajun twist. John Schneider Studios will be hosting "Shakespeare in the Swamp" at the end of the month. This morning one of the show's lead actors, Chasen Schneider, and producer, Alicia Allain, stopped by 2une In... more »