Ascension Parish

Parents at the Ascension Youth Basketball Association tryouts were uneasy this past Saturday after a photo spotted a man who is currently facing child molestation charges.

It was a moment that was too close for comfort for one Ascension Parish couple.

The child was taken to OLOL Children's Hospital by Airmed.

UPDATE - KATC reports the suspect, 21-year-old Dakota Theriot has been apprehended.

The man pleaded guilty to manslaughter and second-degree kidnapping charges in the 25-year-old cold case.

An Ascension Parish grand jury handed up the indictment against David Johnson Friday

The car ran off the roadway, struck a culvert and rolled over several times, coming to rest on its roof.

Sixty dollars of each of those fines collected go to the judicial expense fund of Parish Court.

Deputies say a search of the home turned up two methamphetamine labs, an undisclosed amount of methamphetamine, marijuana, hydrocodone, clonazepam, Xanax and Adderall and a handgun.

Renovations on the Seventh District station near Gonzales began in mid-September.

Shell has delivered a blow to Louisiana's industrial boom, saying it is scrapping a proposal to build a $12.5 billion natural gas-to-liquids plant in Ascension Parish.

Deputies teamed up with two 17-year-olds who went into each store and tried to buy alcoholic beverages on Wednesday.

Deputies say the teens, who ranged in age from 15 to 18 and whom deputies refused to identify, were partying a home, while the owners were out-of-town.

Some injuries have been reported.

Two children were killed when the car they were in went off the road and into a bayou in southeast Louisiana. Louisiana State Police say the driver and two other children in the car were able to swim to safety in the crash that happened shortly before 10 p.m. Tuesday in Ascension Parish.

Two people are dead and another severely injured following a home invasion. Police in Ascension Parish believe a $500,000 coin collection cost the 74-year-old man and his 50-year-old step-son their lives. Police say they found the bodies of Robert Murchand and Douglas Dooley inside the home...

Ascension Parish officials say they are planning a new push to more tightly control where landowners may burn materials outdoors.

PORT VINCENT, La. (AP) — State police are looking for a damaged Toyota truck or sport utility vehicle that hit and critically injured a Prairieville woman in northeastern Ascension Parish.