The owners of a failed Louisiana brine storage cavern are doing their best to comply with a state order to quickly resolve problems created by an eight-acre sinkhole in Assumption Parish spokesman Sonny Cranch said Sunday. He said Texas Brine …
A former Lafayette, La., cardiologist is asking to remain free pending a request that the U.S. Supreme Court hear an appeal of his 2009 health-care fraud conviction and 10-year prison sentence. The Advocate reports Dr. Mehmood M. Patel, who is …
New Orleans-based Maginnis Film & Entertainment Insurance Services LLC (MFEIS) and Reiff & Associates LLC announced a strategic partnership to provide insurance to the film and entertainment industries in Louisiana and the Gulf South region. Led by President Emory Maginnis, …
The Lake Charles Police Department says it’s investigating reports that 60 vehicles and several businesses were damaged by someone using a pellet gun to shoot out windows. The Louisiana police department says in a news release that the damage was …
Three months after Hurricane Isaac, Louisiana’s Grand Isle is still waiting for repairs to the island’s levee system. But Grand Isle Mayor David Carmadelle tells The Courier he’s been told by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that the repairs …
State police and Webster Parish sheriff’s deputies are at the Camp Minden industrial site in northwest Louisiana, trying to determine how to secure thousands of pounds of explosive powder that officials say were improperly housed by a company there. Webster …
A new audit says Louisiana’s Office of Public Health has fallen short in its inspections of restaurants and other retail establishments that serve food, failing to ensure the meals are safe. The audit says the state issued permits to restaurants …
Authorities are trying to determine the cause of a Thanksgiving Day fire that leveled a furniture warehouse in Carencro. The fire was reported around 8 a.m. at the warehouse for “All Wood Furniture.” Owner David Duhon got the call about …
Rails, cement posts, railroad ties and other objects set on corner cemetery plots to prevent drive-overs will be removed from a Bogalusa, La., cemetery as hazards to cars and trucks. People have been making claims against the city for damage …
Almost four years after the Federal Emergency Management Agency released preliminary flood risk maps for Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes, officials don’t know when the final maps will come out. The maps are used to determine flood-insurance rates and how high …