After discovering more car parts in a west Shreveport, La., warehouse on Monday, police have levied more charges against a man they say was the mastermind of a car chop shop operation that was the subject of a major bust …
Michelle Gonzales has been named director of floodplain management and hazard mitigation for Jefferson Parish, La. The appointment was made by parish President John Young. Gonzales previously served as a hazard mitigation liaison in the Governor’s Office of Homeland Security …
Environmental activist Erin Brockovich and a California attorney hired by a group of Assumption Parish residents are coming to Pierre Part to discuss the legal options for residents evacuated from the Bayou Corne area due to a giant sinkhole. Los …
Roughly three dozen companies have filed millions of dollars in liens against a Baton Rouge casino that opened in September. The liens on record in the East Baton Rouge Parish Clerk of Court’s Office involve disputes between Pinnacle Entertainment Inc. …
A lawsuit over a Denham Springs, La., woman’s light display, which extended a middle finger to her neighbors, has been settled. Final dismissal documents were filed in Baton Rouge-based federal court this week. Sarah Childs said she put up the …
With spring approaching, so is storm season in Louisiana and Mississippi. National Weather Service meteorologists are out on the road, training storm spotters to understand what they see in clouds and on the ground – and to call it in. …
The Slidell City Council has approved a $200,000 payment to Stuart Consulting Group, a company hired to oversee Hurricane Katrina rebuilding projects. The amount was only half of what the company had requested, but city officials said Tuesday the remaining …
Authorities said Tuesday that they’ve raised their estimate of the amount of improperly stored material at an explosives recycling company that was blamed for the evacuation of a Louisiana town. Louisiana State Police spokesman Matt Harris said Tuesday that authorities …
Louisiana’s $75 million “Katrina cottages” program took years longer than expected to build homes for hurricane-displaced residents and paid significantly more per house than similar nonprofit programs, according to an audit released Monday. The federally-funded, but state-run housing initiative had …
A Slidell, La., machining company has supplied defective parts for military vehicles, lawsuits by former employees claim. The suits say Alliance Laser supplied welded parts to Textron Marine & Land Systems even though no employees were legally certified to weld …