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Troopers say the man's car struck a tree.

Humankind continues to prove time and time again that is populated at times by complete idiots. Take this story out of Slidell.

State Police say 68-year-old Alice Landry failed to stop at the stop sign at the intersection.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) says that a large UPS cargo plane has crashed near an airport in Birmingham, Ala.

State Police say Monique R. Branch was driving southbound on Louisiana Highway 1161 when, for unknown reasons, she crossed over to the other side of the road.

The crash remains under investigation by the Lafayette Police Department Traffic Unit.

If you are heading eastbound from Lafayette, you can take Interstate 49 Northbound to the Highway 190 eastbound exit to get to Baton Rouge.

When officers arrived, the found the car on fire, Higgins said.

Gerard Richard is also facing four other charges.

The drivers and passengers of the two cars suffered only minor injuries. A passenger in the car that caused the crash was pronounced dead at the scene.

In an update to a story we told you about on Friday, the name of the victim of the fatal accident early Friday morning has been released.

Lafayette Police Cpl. Paul Mouton says the motorcycle crashed into the Honda head on.

Two men lost their lives in a crash in St. Mary Parish today.  It happened around 12:15 this afternoon when 31-year-old Luis Mota of Morgan City was driving a Ford Escort east on Highway 182.  Mota turned to go into a parking lot and was hit by a freight truck driven by 52-year-old James Hughes of Thibodeaux...

Hammons says Dumes was not wearing a seatbelt at the time of the crash. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Routine toxicology samples will be submitted to the Louisiana State Police Crime Lab.

Police shut down the southbound lanes of the busy street for nearly three hours as they worked the crash. The roadway was re-opened shortly after 2 p.m.

A driver lost control of his car early this morning.

Lafayette Police have closed both lanes in the 2000 block of West Congress Street after the driver of a white F150 pickup truck lost control and hit a bridge, flipping over into a coulee.

A Lake Charles woman is in the hospital after an accident in Calcasieu Parish.  It happened Friday evening on Louisiana Highway 3059 when 29-year-old Lindsey Anderson of Jennings lost control of her 2007 Mitsubishi in a curve causing her to hit a driveway and go airborne until the vehicle came to rest in a ditch...

It involved an overturned cane truck.