Louisiana property owners with flood insurance policies whose homes or other structures were damaged during Hurricane Isaac have an additional 60 days to file claims for their flood-related losses. Policy owners now have until April 22 to complete their proof …
Louisiana will borrow $100 million to repair and improve rural roads around Louisiana, in a plan scaled back Thursday by state officials grappling with a shortage of construction funds and trying to stay under the state’s debt ceiling. The Bond …
Frustrated Assumption Parish, La., residents displaced by a massive sinkhole that has swallowed 9 acres of land near their homes are asking lawmakers to assist them, in getting buyouts of their property. People packing a Tuesday hearing of the Senate …
Louisiana National Guard troops and local and state authorities will use Fontainebleau State for a disaster response drill March 22-23. The Times-Picayune reports the 2,800-acre park near Mandeville will come alive with helicopters, watercraft, high-water vehicles and National Guard troops. …
The sinkhole in northern Assumption Parish, La., continues to grow. John Boudreaux, director of the Assumption Parish Office of Homeland Security, tells The Advocate roughly 5,000 square feet of land sloughed off into the sinkhole Tuesday morning, and that by …
Authorities say a 64-year-old Dallas man is accused of staging a home invasion at his parents’ Natchitoches, La., home to cover his theft of coins and cash from a safe at the house. Natchitoches Parish sheriff’s deputies say Burton Paul …
The 2012 overall crime rate for the city of Monroe decreased just over 5 percent compared to the previous year. That’s according to Monroe Police Chief Quentin Holmes, who released Monroe’s statistics Monday. During 2012, Monroe police recorded a total …
Farmers Insurance Exchange, which has around 23,000 homeowner and 7,000 auto policies in Louisiana, is dropping those lines of business in the state, Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon said Thursday. Donelon said that the company cited substantial losses as a major …
Authorities have arrested a Baton Rouge, La., home builder accused of failing to pay more than 30 subcontractors more than $528,000 on four home building projects in 2012. The Advocate reports Quinn Martin, was booked Tuesday on 54 counts of …
Baton Rouge, La., fire investigators have arrested a bookkeeper accused of setting fire to a local business the evening before she was to be questioned in an embezzlement investigation. Authorities tell The Advocate 51-year-old Revelea Jacks Lamartiniere was booked Monday …