Deadly crash snarls I-10 for 6 hours, 12 miles

with Jennifer Wadsworth | Assistant metro editor

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Trucker dies in I-10 crash

A driver hauling a truck full of frozen fish died after crashing into a passenger bus on I-10 east by Port Allen Thursday morning. The wreck jammed up traffic for upward of a dozen miles and half as many hours. Here's what we learned about the deadly collision, which also sent a few bus passengers to the hospital.

Indictment in fatal beating

A Denham Springs woman and a Port Allen man were indicted Thursday on second-degree murder charges in the beating death of her 63-year-old uncle last fall. Joe Gyan Jr. has the story.

11 miles long, 320 yards wide

Those are the dimensions of the tornado that tore through Arabi earlier this week, according to the National Weather Service. Here's Mark Schlefstein with the story.

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