GRETNA (AP) — A New Orleans man is accused of stealing an ambulance outside a New Orleans emergency room and then leading a chase through suburbs across the Mississippi River.
BATON ROUGE (AP) — Gov. John Bel Edwards has signed into law a measure that allows some people convicted of felonies in Louisiana to be able to serve on juries for civil and criminal cases.
BATON ROUGE (AP) — Louisiana’s Office of Motor Vehicles warns state residents that scammers are trying to get personal information with text messages claiming that people can collect money through an internet link.
LAKE CHARLES (AP) — Federal prosecutors say a Louisiana man has been sentenced to serve a year in prison and pay more than $960,000 in restitution on federal tax fraud charges.
The success or failure of next year’s crawfish crop depends on the survival of the brood stock over the summer. Permanent ponds usually do not need any additional stock added to the pond since a sufficient number of crawfish are still present in the pond at the end of the season. New ponds such as rice fields will need to be stocked to develop a population of crawfish next year.
The new pavilion at Richmond Park in Welsh was dedicated to the late Cora Mae Gordon Vital, who was a local educator that was influential in the community. Rev. Monica Monk sang the hymn “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” at the dedication ceremony.
Tickets are now available for upcoming Delta Waterfowl Banquet, an annual fundraising event hosted by the Jennings and Lake Arthur Chapter of the Delta Waterfowl Organization.