Bear kills calf in West Carroll EPPS – Wildlife and Fisheries personnel are trying to trap a bear that killed a calf in a pasture near here last week.
LDWF Wildlife Division staff responded to the reported incident, performing a ...
La. College gets $10 million gift PINEVILLE – Louisiana College President Joe Aguillard, fresh off a retention vote by the Board of Trustees, said Wednesday that the private Baptist school has received a $10 million donation.
Aguil...
Aguillard retains La. College presidency PINEVILLE – Joe Aguillard remains president of Louisiana College, a post he’s held since January 2005.
The Baptist college’s Board of Trustees reached that conclusion in a vote at its special meeti...
Deaths Elsewhere Retired Nicholls professor
HOUMA – Services for former Nicholls State University professor Loretta Haddad will be Tuesday. She died April 20 at age 77.
She was a piano professor at Nicholls St.
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St. Helena to take up strip club regulations ST. HELENA – Strip clubs will be back on the Police Jury runway Tuesday night.
Strip clubs have been the focus of most residents in St. Helena Parish for some years now. Some supporting them and o...
Teen held in Abbeville slaying ABBEVILLE – A teenager is charged with killing another in a Friday night shooting here.
Walter August, 18, of Abbeville was charged early Monday with the second-degree murder of Jovontae Charles, ...
House panel rejects Medicaid expansion, Senate hearing to come BATON ROUGE — A Senate committee next week will take up the issue of expanding Medicaid to cover more uninsured, an action a House panel turned down Wednesday.
The House Health and Welfare Committe...
Bomb-sniffing K-9's in high demand since Boston blasts ABBEVILLE – Bomb-sniffing dogs are in high demand after the Boston Marathon bombing, and USK-9 has a backorder for the specially trained dogs.
In Boston after the bombing, bomb-sniffing dogs were u...
Flood insurance premiums to jump 25 percent MORGAN CITY – Pending National Flood Insurance Program premium increases will affect nearly 18,000 policies state-wide as soon as subsidies of their premium begin to be phased out.
Specific residen...
