MER ROUGE, La. (KTVE/KARD) — According to the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development, lane closures for the railroad crossing intersection construction on US 425, US 165, and LA ...

Detours around site Beginning Sunday, U.S. 165, Louisiana 2, U.S. 425/Louisiana 133 and Louisiana 138 in Mer Rouge will be temporarily closed to allow for clean-up of the derailment site.

Night - Cloudy with a 64% chance of precipitation. Winds variable at 5 to 10 mph (8 to 16.1 kph). The overnight low will be 67 °F (19.4 °C). Cloudy with a high of 73 °F (22.8 °C) and a 61% ...

On Oct. 5 in Mer Rouge, Louisiana, a freight train crashed into an 18-wheeler truck trapped on the rails, causing a devastating derailment and prompting evacuation of fifty homes in the vicinity ...

Watch a speeding freight train blow right through a stranded 18-wheeler in Mer Rouge, Louisiana.

BATON ROUGE — Attorney General Jeff Landry’s Cyber Crime Unit yesterday arrested a Mer Rouge man for internet crimes against children. The arrest was a result of a joint investigation with the ...

MOREHOUSE PARISH, La. (KTVE/KARD) — An assistant professor at ULM died on Sunday night in Mer Rouge. According to Morehouse Parish Sheriff Mike Tubbs, 39-year-old Joshua Comer was murdered. T… ...

October 5, 2014: This photo shows a train derailment in Mer Rouge, La. Two train engineers were in serious condition Sunday after their freight train hit a transport truck in northeast Louisiana ...

MER ROUGE — Meryl Kennedy’s story begins in a truck, riding with her father around her family’s rice farm as a child growing up in northeast Louisiana. "He loved to take me out there," she ...

Some 18-train cars were derailed and two people were injured in the accident, according to Mer Rouge Police Chief Mitch Stephens. “Two injuries; the train conductor and engineer.