Latest Louisiana Headlines
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Louisiana Tire Plant Fire Blazes for 10 Days
Jan 31 2022 // About 65% of a 10-day-old fire at a shuttered tire processing plant in central Louisiana has been doused with water and smothered with dirt, reducing a thick plume of black smoke that had been visible for miles, state...
Explosion at Louisiana Chemical Plant Injures 6
Jan 28 2022 // An explosion on Jan. 26 at a southwest Louisiana chemical plant has left at least six people with minor injuries. The explosion occurred at an empty ethylene dichloride storage tank shortly before 11 a.m., a spokesperson...
Explosion Damages Louisiana Court’s Power Grid, Contractor Injured
Jan 27 2022 // A courthouse in north Louisiana will be closed indefinitely so that repairs can be made to the building’s main power distribution system. Crews are assessing damage to the Caddo Parish Courthouse’s power grid...
Louisiana Court Disbars Attorney Who Allegedly Mishandled Client’s Claim Case
Jan 26 2022 // The Louisiana Supreme Court has disbarred a Lafayette attorney accused of failing to properly handle a client’s case, then lying to investigators about it. Brad Thomas Andrus was formally disbarred, ordered to pay...
Terrebonne, Louisiana Levee System to Get $379 Million in Federal Money
Jan 25 2022 // A levee system that protects Terrebonne and parts of Lafourche from Gulf of Mexico hurricanes will receive $379 million in federal money from the infrastructure bill passed by Congress, officials said Jan. 19. U.S. Sen....
Louisiana Homeowners Insurer Americas Placed In Receivership
Jan 24 2022 // Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon has placed a homeowners insurance company in receivership after the insurer suffered losses from the combination of Hurricanes Laura, Delta and Zeta in 2020 and Hurricane Ida in...
Feds: Louisiana Worker Who Fell 50 Feet Didn’t Wear Lifeline
Jan 24 2022 // A worker on a crew replacing corroded grating on an oil platform wasn’t wearing his safety lifeline when he fell to his death off Louisiana in May 2020, the federal offshore safety agency says. The man stood on...
Louisiana Woman 30th Guilty Plea in Staged Auto Crash Cases
Jan 24 2022 // A Louisiana woman pled guilty to Conspiracy to Commit Mail Fraud arising out of a staged automobile accident with a tractor-trailer occurring in New Orleans, making her the 30th guilty plea in “Operation...
Corps to Receive $2 Billion for Louisiana Flood Protection
Jan 21 2022 // The Army Corps of Engineers will be getting $2.6 billion for Louisiana under the infrastructure and supplemental disaster acts, Gov. John Bel Edwards said Jan. 19. The disaster bill to help recovery from Hurricane Ida...
Louisiana Food Preparer Settles $67K Racial Harassment Suit
Jan 20 2022 // A food preparer and retailer in Scott and Carencro, Louisiana, has agreed to pay a former employee $67,500 to settle a lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The lawsuit was resolved through a...
Fire at Louisiana Church Causes $150K in Damages
Jan 19 2022 // An early morning fire on Jan. 14 at a church in Louisiana’s capital left $150,000 worth of damages but no injuries, authorities said. The Baton Rouge Fire Department responded about 5:30 a.m. to a fire in North Baton...
Report: Louisiana Seafood Industry Saw $580M in Losses From 2020-21 Hurricanes
Jan 19 2022 // Louisiana’s fisheries and seafood businesses experienced approximately $580 million in total losses resulting from four hurricane between August 2020 to August 2021, according to a new report by the Louisiana Sea...
Power Fully Restored to Louisiana’s Barrier Island Five Months After Ida
Jan 18 2022 // A little over five months after Hurricane Ida devastated Grand Isle, Louisiana’s barrier island, electricity is fully up and running, the mayor’s office said. Ida made landfall Aug. 29. Grand Isle was nearly...
Louisiana Helicopter Crashes Leaves 2 Presumed Dead
Jan 18 2022 // A pilot and passenger are presumed dead after the crash Jan. 14 of a helicopter in a south Louisiana marsh, a local government official said. The sheriff’s office in coastal Lafourche Parish got a call from a witness...
Court Rejects Louisiana Pastor’s Virus Restrictions Suit
Jan 14 2022 // A Louisiana pastor’s lawsuit over Gov. John Bel Edwards’ past COVID-19 restrictions on public gatherings was rejected for a second time by a federal judge. U.S. District Judge Brian Jackson in Baton Rouge said...
Louisiana’s Stonetrust Goes Live with Insurity Workers’ Comp Solution
Jan 14 2022 // Insurity, a provider of cloud-based software for insurance carriers, brokers, and MGAs, has announced that workers’ compensation insurer Stonetrust Commercial Insurance Company has successfully implemented...
Louisiana Woman 30th Guilty Plea in Staged Auto Crash Cases
Jan 13 2022 // A Louisiana woman has pled guilty to Conspiracy to Commit Mail Fraud arising out of a staged automobile accident with a tractor-trailer occurring in New Orleans, making her the 30th guilty plea in “Operation...
Officials Blame Discarded Fireworks for Louisiana Church Blaze
Jan 12 2022 // Carelessly discarded New Year’s fireworks may have started a blaze that destroyed much of a church, the Louisiana State Fire Marshal’s Office says. Investigators haven’t determined a definite cause of the...
7,500 Louisiana Ida Victims Move From Tent Camps to Trailers
Jan 12 2022 // More than four months after Hurricane Ida destroyed or did major damage to their houses, some Louisiana residents are just now moving from tent camps to government-supplied mobile homes and RV trailers. Shantell Campbell...
Tornadoes Reported in Houston, Northwest Louisiana
Jan 11 2022 // At least two tornadoes touched down in the Houston area over the weekend as storms brought high winds and heavy rains, damaging homes and businesses and causing flooding. Most of the damage from the storms that came...
