State News
Sheriff suggests jail video may have been doctored
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans Sheriff Marlin Gusman raised the possibility Thursday that a lurid video depicting intravenous drug use and weapon possession in the jail he oversees may have been do...
Apr 05, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
full story
Explosive gas found under Bayou Corne house slabs
BAYOU CORNE (AP) — Explosive concentrations of gas have been found in soil underneath two homes and a shed in the Bayou Corne community near a large sinkhole in Assumption Parish, officials said. W...
Apr 05, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
full story
Essence releases nightly headliners for 2013 fest
NEW ORLEANS — More details about the 2013 Essence Festival have been released, giving fans another look at the talent in store for the music and cultural celebration. Organizers say the festival op...
Apr 05, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
full story
AAUP criticizes Southern’s treatment of faculty in cuts
BATON ROUGE (AP) — A national organization of university professors is criticizing the way Southern University faculty members were treated immediately after the school declared a financial emergen...
Apr 05, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
full story
Jindal’s higher education budget shaky, uncertain says education chief
BATON ROUGE — Gov. Bobby Jindal’s budget proposal would leave colleges with shaky and uncertain financing next year and create cash flow problems at the schools, Louisiana’s higher education commis...
Apr 05, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
full story
Audit: Katrina aid may have been misspent
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal investigators said Wednesday that as much as $700 million in federal aid intended to help some 24,000 Louisiana families elevate their homes after Hurricanes Katrina and R...
Apr 04, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
full story
Official: Sheriff to blame for NOLA jail problems
NEW ORLEANS — Mayor Mitch Landrieu and his chief administrator turned up the political heat on Sheriff Marlin Gusman on Wednesday, the day after a federal court released videos that showed inmates ...
Apr 04, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
full story
Louisiana news briefs
No new plan for Citizens’ budget gap BATON ROUGE — The governing board for Louisiana’s property insurer of last resort didn’t choose an alternate approach Wednesday to balance the company’s books ...
Apr 04, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
full story
Jindal, Miss. Gov. praise each other
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal expressed nothing but praise for each other Wednesday just before Jindal gave the keynote speech at a fundraiser f...
Apr 04, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
full story
La. man gets prison for plot to defraud BP
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A businessman was sentenced Wednesday to 18 months in prison for a plot in which he fraudulently billed BP for roughly $1.4 million for use of a helicopter after the company’s ma...
Apr 04, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
full story
Objections raised to school funding formula change
BATON ROUGE, La. — The House budget committee chairman said Wednesday he disagreed with proposed changes to the public school funding formula that would strip a requirement for how much money must ...
Apr 04, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
full story
ETTJ_gavel.jpg
Rapist pleads guility in 1985 case
WINNFIELD – A man who raped, robbed and terrorized a woman almost 30 years ago has at last been sentenced to prison. Jessie Mills was arrested in 1985 and found guilty in 1987. But the verdict was ...
Apr 04, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 22 22 recommendations | email to a friend
full story
WEATHER



FEATURED BUSINESSES