The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says a state highway in the town of Fairfax in Osage County has been closed because of tornado damage, the Tulsa World newspaper reported. The newspaper says there have been no reports of injuries from the …
A new medical marijuana health clinic is opening in northwest Louisiana. News outlets reported the Total Health Clinic was opening in Bossier City this week. Dr. Chad Rossitter, an internal medicine doctor in Acadiana, said he became interested in marijuana …
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards has declared a water emergency involving an east-central Louisiana water system after finding out that the system’s contracted operator is no longer running the system because it hasn’t been paid. The order involves the Clayton …
Insgroup Inc. has acquired Houston, Texas-based Fred Brown Insurance Brokerage to enhance its Employee Benefits offering to large employer groups. Insgroup also acquired Fred Brown Property Casualty. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. All Fred Brown Companies’ employees will …
Midlands Management Corp. has named Joshua Reynolds a broker in its transportation unit in Dallas, Texas. Reynolds has 19 years of insurance underwriting experience. He was previously a senior transportation underwriter for QEO Insurance Group. He was with Hallmark Specialty …
A Canadian company’s plan to open a so-called robot brothel in Houston has been short circuited by city leaders. Houston’s City Council on this week updated one local ordinance to specifically ban individuals from having sex with an “anthropomorphic device,” …
Legislation headed to President Donald Trump’s desk could help thousands of Louisiana flood victims. The U.S. Senate gave final passage this week to a package of federal disaster policy changes, included in a bill authorizing spending for federal aviation programs. …
Later this month, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will recommend a multi-billion-dollar plan to help protect the Texas coast — the Houston area in particular — from hurricanes. When it will become a reality, however, is anyone’s guess. The …
A human trafficking survivor from Texas sued Facebook this week, alleging the social media platform provides human traffickers an unrestricted way to “stalk, exploit, recruit, groom … and extort children into the sex trade.” The lawsuit was filed Oct. 1 …
The family of a Fort Worth man who died after they say officers needlessly choked, kicked and shot with a stun gun during a 2013 drug raid can proceed with a wrongful death lawsuit against two officers and the city, …
