Louisiana sports reporter Carley McCord is the first person to be publicly identified as one of the five victims killed in the small plane crash this morning in Lafayette.
Another legendary member of the Ragin' Cajuns baseball community has passed away. Gene Bacque died on Saturday due to complications after an abdominal aneurysm surgery. He was 82.
The community of Natchitoches is mourning the loss of two Northwestern State University students who died on Thursday in separate, unrelated incidents.