A former legal and clerical specialist for Baton Rouge City Court has been sentenced to two years of probation and fined $250 after admitting that she accepted more than $5,000 in bribes. The Advocate reports 48-year-old Ingrid Simon, of Baton …
Louisiana has saved more than $10 million in the first two years of a privatization contract for claims processing and loss prevention services for the Office of Risk Management, auditors told lawmakers Thursday. Members of the Legislative Audit Advisory Council …
Two Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development projects along Interstate 20 in northern Louisiana are designed with one purpose: To save lives. Marshall Hill, DOTD’s Monroe District administrator, tells The News-Star a six-month, $1.8-million project to clear trees from the …
Federal authorities say six defendants in an insurance fraud scheme have pleaded guilty. U.S. Attorney Stephanie A. Finley says the defendants entered their pleas Monday before U.S. District Judge S. Maurice Hicks Jr. in Shreveport. Finley says the members of …
The Army Corps of Engineers is spending $1.3 million to raise about 4,000 feet of earthen levee in easternmost New Orleans, La., that has subsided so low it wouldn’t be able to withstand a storm surge caused by a so-called …
Shoppers at a Louisiana grocery store got a shock themselves when a woman was apparently struck Monday by lightning in the checkout line. Houma Fire District Chief Joe Moupon says the woman, whose name was not released but is believed …
Louisiana’s Department of Transportation and Development plans to add nearly 350 miles of cable median barriers along interstates across the state. That will cover virtually every area needing the protection to keep vehicles from crossing into oncoming traffic, Secretary Sherri …
The Department of Environmental Quality is giving parishes a hurricane resources manual that outlines how to deal with debris collection and environmental cleanup after a storm. DEQ says this is the second year the department has compiled the manual, which …
The sites of two deadly chemical plant explosions in south Louisiana remain closed. Officials say it could be months before federal investigators determine the cause of the fatal blasts that killed three workers and sent nearly 100 others to area …
The Army Corps of Engineers has awarded a $23.8 million contract for installation of equipment related to the Harahan pump-to-river flood control project. The work is part of the Southeast Louisiana Urban Flood Damage Risk Reduction Project. Army Corps officials …