Latest Louisiana Headlines
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Louisiana Woman Latest to be Sentenced in Staged Auto Accident
Jun 16 2022 // United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that Ishais Price, age 41, of New Orleans, Louisiana, was sentenced for Conspiracy to Commit Mail Fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 371, before...
Louisiana Dept. of Insurance Amending 5 Regulations
Jun 14 2022 // The Louisiana Department of Insurance (LDI) said in the last two weeks it intends to amend at least five regulations. The LDI seems to amend Regulation 42 to bring the regulation into alignment with current law....
Justice Department Starts Probe Into Louisiana State Police
Jun 10 2022 // The U.S. Justice Department is opening a “pattern-or-practice” investigation into the Louisiana State Police amid mounting evidence that the agency has looked the other way in the face of beatings of mostly...
Louisiana Man Arrested For Allegedly Selling Fake Insurance Policies
Jun 9 2022 // A Louisiana man was arrested June 8 on fraud charges of selling $39,000 in fake insurance policies. The Louisiana State Police Insurance Fraud and Auto Theft (IFAT) Unit announced the arrest of 47-year-old Trampus Wagoner...
Expansion of Natural Gas Terminals Brings Another Risk to Louisiana
Jun 7 2022 // The front lawn of Lydia Larce’s home is strewn with debris: remnants of cabinets and chunks of pink shower. She lives in a FEMA trailer out back, her home in shambles after hurricanes tore through Lake...
Child Sets Section of Louisiana Walmart on Fire with Cigarette Lighter
Jun 6 2022 // A girl who appeared to be 6 to 9 years old started a fire that has closed a suburban New Orleans Walmart for repairs, the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office said last week. The fire Monday night destroyed two aisles...
Abandoned Louisiana Oil Wells to Receive Clean Up in Infrastructure Bill
Jun 6 2022 // About $33 million of the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure plan recently signed into law by President Joe Biden will go toward cleaning up 277 of an estimated 15,000 abandoned oil and gas wells on federal land, the...
Louisiana Governor Saw Deadly Arrest Video Months Before Prosecutors
Jun 1 2022 // With racial tensions still simmering over the killing of George Floyd, Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards and his top lawyers gathered in a state police conference room in October 2020 to prepare for the fallout from a...
Louisiana Restaurant to Settle $30,000 EEOC Lawsuit
May 31 2022 // A Louisiana restaurant admitted that it violated federal law when it fired and then later refused to rehire a worker because she was pregnant as part of federal court resolution with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity...
NTSB: Pilot Disorientation Likely Caused Fatal 2019 Louisiana Plane crash
May 31 2022 // Pilot disorientation is listed as a probable cause of the 2019 small plane crash that killed five people in south Louisiana. The Advocate reports that the National Transportation Safety Board report on the crash said the...
Army Corps of Engineers Completes Post-Katrina Protections in Louisiana
May 31 2022 // Seventeen years after Hurricane Katrina flooded New Orleans, the Army Corps of Engineers has completed an extensive system of floodgates, strengthened levees and other protections. The 130-mile (210-kilometer) ring is...
Abandoned Louisiana Oil Wells Slated to Receive Clean Up in Infrastructure Bill
May 27 2022 // About $33 million of the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure plan recently signed into law by President Joe Biden will go toward cleaning up 277 of an estimated 15,000 abandoned oil and gas wells on federal land, the...
Milestone Partners Acquires Louisiana’s GoAuto
May 27 2022 // Milestone Partners acquired specialty auto insurance holding company Drive Assurance Holdings LLC (“Drive Assurance”) and the related acquisition of GoAuto, LLC (“GoAuto”) and its affiliated...
Two More Louisiana Defendants Sentenced in Operation Sideswipe
May 26 2022 // United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced on May 25, 2022 that Doniesha Gibson (Gibson) age 31, of New Orleans, Louisiana and Erica Lee Thompson (Erica Lee), age 47, of Harvey, Louisiana, were sentenced for...
Louisiana Audit Shows Hurricanes Led to Increase in Insurance Complaints
May 24 2022 // Residential property. complaints against Louisiana insurance companies skyrocketed in the aftermath of 2020 and 2021 hurricanes, according to a report released this month by the Louisiana Legislative Auditor. The Louisiana...
Ex-Louisiana Police Boss Faces Contempt in Ronald Greene Probe
May 17 2022 // Lawmakers investigating the deadly arrest of Black motorist Ronald Greene voted unanimously last week to hold the former head of the Louisiana State Police in contempt for defying a subpoena and refusing to turn over the...
BP Oil Spill Settlement Goes Towards Louisiana Shoreline Construction
May 17 2022 // Louisiana has begun construction of a $67 million project to create miles (kilometers) of oyster reefs to protect the shoreline in a New Orleans suburb. Money for the Biloxi Marsh Living Shoreline comes from an $8.8...
Louisiana Court Tosses COVID-Related Charges Against Pastor
May 16 2022 // The Louisiana Supreme Court threw out charges Friday against a pastor who flouted restrictions on gatherings early in the coronavirus pandemic, ruling 5-2 that the governor’s executive orders violated freedom of...
$560M Comite River Canal Designed to Limit Baton Rouge, Louisiana Flooding
May 16 2022 // You can’t quite see it yet from Plank Road or La. 19 near Zachary, but work crews are building a man-made river from scratch. Down inside a huge, wide “V” carved out of the earth, concrete pillars for a...
Louisiana Suit Alleges Chokehold Used on 10-year-old With Disabilities
May 13 2022 // Civil rights advocates are suing the school board and sheriff’s office in Louisiana’s Jefferson Parish over the alleged mistreatment _ including the use of a chokehold and handcuffs _ on a 10-year-old Black...
