St. Helena to take up strip club regulations ST. HELENA – Strip clubs will be back on the Police Jury runway Tuesday night.
Strip clubs have been the focus of most residents in St. Helena Parish for some years now. Some supporting them and o...
Man allegedly takes bat to head of another DUPONT – A man who alleged used a baseball bat on the head of another is charged with attempted second-degree murder.
According to Avoyelles Sheriff Doug Anderson, Brandon Pepiton, 31, of Dupont, a...
Teen held in Abbeville slaying ABBEVILLE – A teenager is charged with killing another in a Friday night shooting here.
Walter August, 18, of Abbeville was charged early Monday with the second-degree murder of Jovontae Charles, ...
Bicyclist killed in fatal crash on LA 308 in Raceland RACELAND--Shortly after 8 p.m. Saturday evening, a bicyclist was killed on LA 308 in Lafourche Parish after he was struck from the rear by a vehicle, says TFC Evan Harrell with the Louisiana State ...
Marsh insect numbers continue to decline after 2010 oil spill The day after the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig – April 21, 2010 – Linda Hooper-Bui, an LSU AgCenter entomologist, had a graduate student sampling insect populations in the marshes of ...
House panel rejects Medicaid expansion, Senate hearing to come BATON ROUGE — A Senate committee next week will take up the issue of expanding Medicaid to cover more uninsured, an action a House panel turned down Wednesday.
The House Health and Welfare Committe...
Senate panel approves streamlining Louisiana adoption process “Seventy-five hundred children will go through the foster care system in Louisiana this year. Streamlining the process to adoption will be one of the most important issues we address this legislati...
Bomb-sniffing K-9's in high demand since Boston blasts ABBEVILLE – Bomb-sniffing dogs are in high demand after the Boston Marathon bombing, and USK-9 has a backorder for the specially trained dogs.
In Boston after the bombing, bomb-sniffing dogs were u...
Flood insurance premiums to jump 25 percent MORGAN CITY – Pending National Flood Insurance Program premium increases will affect nearly 18,000 policies state-wide as soon as subsidies of their premium begin to be phased out.
Specific residen...