The Federal Emergency Management Agency is awarding a $1.6 million disaster grant for Louisiana’s Cameron Parish Recreation Center to replace facilities demolished by Hurricane Rita in 2005. Sen. Mary Landrieu, a Louisiana Democrat who chairs the Senate Homeland Security Appropriations …
A federal jury has convicted a Bossier City, La., businessman of conspiring to commit wire fraud for his role in staging the theft of heavy equipment valued at about $140,000. U.S. Attorney Stephanie A. Finley says 43-year-old Kenneth A. Gordon …
Tensas Parish Sheriff Ricky Jones says two men were seriously burned when vapors at a Louisiana drilling rig apparently were ignited by the motor of a pumper truck, and a vat of drilling mud on the rig caught fire. Both …
Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp.’s board is expected to approve increasing its commercial coverage rates by an average of 45.1 percent statewide this week. Almost all of Citizens’ roughly 5,700 commercial property policies are in the New Orleans area and …
A massive sinkhole that has swallowed more than 5 acres of land in Assumption Parish and contaminated an aquifer has cost the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources more than $2 million for response efforts. And there’s no estimate of when …
Livingston Parish, La., officials are still putting together bills for their costs from Hurricane Isaac but say they only expect to be reimbursed for about 75 percent. Parish President Layton Ricks tells The Advocate getting 75 percent rather than 90 …
The use of seatbelts in Louisiana has reached a record high of 79.3 percent this year. It’s a factor officials say is contributing to the state’s declining highway death rate. The 79.3 percent rate is an increase from last year’s …
Significant rate increases for state-sponsored wind and hail property insurance policies that Citizens Property Insurance Corp. approved earlier this year were legal, according to an opinion by the state’s attorney general. The Courier reports that the Attorney General James “Buddy” …
Louisiana’s East Feliciana Parish Sheriff Talmadge Bunch says his staff will discontinue answering 911 emergency telephone calls within the next month unless he gets more money. Bunch notified the board that oversees the 911 system’s operations last week that his …
The Minden Fire Department is marking fire prevention week by giving away smoke detectors to local residents. Assistant Fire chief Tommy John Hughes tells the Minden Press-Herald the detectors were purchased using a $3,500 grant from Conoco Phillips. The 350 …