Waste Connections has provided a schedule for trash pickup for the local area over the holiday season. With few exceptions, the schedule will be exactly the same for both Christmas week and New Years week.

On Friday, December 14, 2018, investigators from the Louisiana State Police Bureau of Investigations Special Victims Unit/Alexandria Field Office, with the assistance of Fort Polk Criminal Investigations Division, arrested Joey Womack of Fort Polk for five counts distribution of pornography …

On Thursday, December 13, 2018, Lake Charles Police Officers learned that the pedestrian, Glenn Broussard, of Moss Bluff, was crossing 3rd Avenue from east to west in the crosswalk, when he was struck by a 1997 GMC Sierra driven by Donovan Moore Jr, 21, of Lake Charles.