Suits against state government mounting By John Maginnis
and Jeremy Alford
LaPolitics.com
BATON ROUGE — Considering all the lawsuits that have been filed and those that are anticipated, the court system is putting Gov.Bobby Jindal and ...
Aguillard retains La. College presidency PINEVILLE – Joe Aguillard remains president of Louisiana College, a post he’s held since January 2005.
The Baptist college’s Board of Trustees reached that conclusion in a vote at its special meeti...
Deaths Elsewhere Retired Nicholls professor
HOUMA – Services for former Nicholls State University professor Loretta Haddad will be Tuesday. She died April 20 at age 77.
She was a piano professor at Nicholls St.
Sur...
St. Helena to take up strip club regulations ST. HELENA – Strip clubs will be back on the Police Jury runway Tuesday night.
Strip clubs have been the focus of most residents in St. Helena Parish for some years now. Some supporting them and o...
Man allegedly takes bat to head of another DUPONT – A man who alleged used a baseball bat on the head of another is charged with attempted second-degree murder.
According to Avoyelles Sheriff Doug Anderson, Brandon Pepiton, 31, of Dupont, a...
House panel rejects Medicaid expansion, Senate hearing to come BATON ROUGE — A Senate committee next week will take up the issue of expanding Medicaid to cover more uninsured, an action a House panel turned down Wednesday.
The House Health and Welfare Committe...
Reef fund remains hot legislative issue
By John Maginnis
& Jeremy Alford
LaPolitics.com
BATON ROUGE – A committee hearing that was scheduled Monday for a bill to place the Artificial Reef Development Fund in the state constitution was...
Flood insurance premiums to jump 25 percent MORGAN CITY – Pending National Flood Insurance Program premium increases will affect nearly 18,000 policies state-wide as soon as subsidies of their premium begin to be phased out.
Specific residen...
Benefit will raise reward money for missing woman info HENDERSON – A benefit event is being held Saturday to raise money for a reward to be posted in the search for Crystal Dupuis Grebinger, missing since Feb. 8.
Grebinger, 32, of the Grand Anse area,...
