SWLA News

Reports are surfacing that the Louisiana Swashbucklers are no more, and that even the Saturday's final home game for the team has been cancelled.

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Anyone who has ever disturbed a fire ant nest can tell you they don't ever want to do that again. Let's face it, here in the South, it's hard not to come in contact with fire ants. But now, there is new ant making it's way into our area and, while the bite isn't as painful, they can do a lot of damage. It seems these critters are attracted to electronics. think about those implications for a bit.

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West Monroe offensive tackle Cameron Robinson is being sought after by a lot of college football coaches. But when LSU head coach Les Miles sings "Happy Birthday" to the mom of a 6-foot-6, 315-pound consensus five star player he has to be top priorty.

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When one of our salespersons went to get in her vehicle this morning, she found a little reptile friend just hanging out, waiting for her.  It was a three-foot alligator.  She was not impressed.

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Southwest Louisiana is going to be on the national stage today as we will be represented this morning on NBC's 'The Today Show' for the series 'Wake up with Al'.

Lorie Coleman along with Patrick Scott Coleman and James Stanley from the Carlyss fire department appeared on the show a couple weeks ago as one of the three finalist for the "Wake up with Al" contest where Al Roker will come to your house and do the weather. Now Al and NBC is here.

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Remember when every poll that ever came out ranked Louisiana as the "worst" this or the "worst" that? Have you noticed over the past few years that Louisiana is beginning to be ranked among the "best" in all these polls?

Now, we've been ranked among the top places to retire.

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The Jefferson Davis Parish Sheriff's Office is reporting that they responded to a call in reference to a woman who was seen jumping off of the Mermentau River Bridge which is East of Jennings, Louisiana.

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Southwest Louisiana was represented this morning on NBC's 'The Today Show' for the series 'Wake up with Al'.

Lorie Coleman along with Patrick Scott Coleman and James Stanley from the Carlyss fire department appeared on the show this morning as one of the three finalist for the "Wake up with Al" contest where Al Roker will come to your house and do the weather.  We have the video for you to watch plus the results.

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LSU was the hot ticket for the 2013 NFL draft! The talk of this year’s draft was, as you may expect was, Tyrann Mathieu, The Honey Badger.  Well, not to be anti-climactic, but , Mathieu will be going to the Arizona Cardinals. Still, a full baker's dozen players from LSU have now joined the ranks of the NFL.

Here are the other dozen

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Spring Art Walk 2013 will be Friday from 5PM – 9PM, and will showcase area artists in pop-up galleries, feature live art demonstrations, both an Adult and a new Kid’s Art Battle, great food, live music, an Outdoor Art Market, a Pub Crawl, low-cost pedicab and carriage rides, and plenty of surprise public art and installation pieces. It's a free event for the whole family!

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Sulphur High School is celebrating their 100th anniversary today.  They have a day long celebration planned for today and it will take place at the high school.

Some of the events planned for today are a car show, class reunions and band concerts just to name a few.  Here is the complete line up of events for today.

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The NFL announced the 2013 regular season schedules for all teams yesterday including the schedule for the New Orleans Saints.

The Saints will be featured in at least four nationally televised games on ESPN, NBC and the NFL Network this season.  Here is the Saints complete 2013 football schedule including the preseason games.

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