By SHEILA SMITH Assistant Editor Accustomed to poor weather during hurricane season, many people have plans in place to protect themselves, their loved ones, homes and properties. However, how many people know what to do with their pets during a storm or evacuation?
By SHEILA SMITH Assistant Editor Persons of interest have been identified in a May arson case. On May 14, the home of Carla Sinegal at 407 South Broadway Street in Jennings caught fire near the rear of the residence. Sinegal was home when the fire began.
By ALLISON CRYER Daily News Staff LACASSINE – An oilfield waste disposal company is requesting permission to dig a new injection well at its facility here. MBO Lacassine Oil Services, a waste disposal company, submitted a permit request Wednesday to build a Class 2 non-hazardous injection well at the facility.
BATON ROUGE (AP) — In a flurry of last-minute approvals, Louisiana lawmakers signed off Thursday on spending deals that will finance state construction work next year, address a recent Supreme Court ruling and direct a state surplus to fill a Medicaid funding gap. A nearly $5 billion construction budget will continue work on ongoing projects, [...]
By ALLISON CRYER Daily News Staff Writer Drivers in Jennings are reminded to obey the traffic signs along La. 97, or pay the consequences. Jennings Police Department Chief Todd D’Albor said that officers have been assigned to the one-mile section of La. 97 between La. 102 and Interstate 10 that was recently reduced to one [...]
By ALLISON CRYER Daily News Staff Writer Louisiana lawmakers approved $10 million for a new jail facility for Jeff Davis in their capital outlay proposal for the 2014 fiscal year. The money was appropriated in House Bill (HB) 2, the state’s construction budget. Lawmakers approved the bill in the last hours of the state’s legislative [...]
MIAMI (AP) — The first tropical storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, Andrea, formed Wednesday over the Gulf of Mexico and was expected to bring wet weather to parts of Florida’s west coast over the next few days. Forecasters issued a tropical storm warning for a swath of Florida’s west coast starting at Boca Grande, [...]
BATON ROUGE (AP) – Lawmakers negotiating next year’s $25 billion budget struck a tentative deal Wednesday that includes a $69 million increase in public school funding, in a compromise they hope can get enough support to keep them out of a special session. The hand-shake agreement for the 2013-14 budget was reached among nine legislative [...]
By ALLISON CRYER Daily News Staff Writer LAKE ARTHUR – The town council here will vote on pay raises for the positions of town clerk and police chief at its July meeting. The council introduced two resolutions Wednesday that would increase the pay for town clerk by 12 percent and increase the police chief’s pay [...]
By ALLISON CRYER Daily News Staff Writer Bids will be opened at the end of the month for the first phase of Jennings City Hall project, with work projected to begin as early as mid-July. According to Jennings Mayor Terry Duhon, bids on the first phase of the project will be opened at 4 p.m. [...]
