Latest Louisiana Headlines
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Zeta’s Impact on Louisiana Island: ‘Like a Bomb Was Dropped’
Nov 2 2020 // Mark Andollina remembers stinging rain and a howling wind that peeled the roof off part of his Cajun Tide Beach Resort on Grand Isle, the Louisiana barrier island town where residents were among the first to feel the...
Zeta Leaves Southeast Louisiana Reeling Before Heading Northeast
Oct 30 2020 // A fast-moving Zeta weakened to a tropical storm as it barreled northeast on Oct. 29 after ripping through Louisiana and Mississippi where storm-weary residents were advised to stay indoors overnight while officials...
Louisiana Issues Insurer Data Call for Hurricane Delta Damage Claims
Oct 30 2020 // Property/casualty insurance companies in Louisiana, including those that write private and/or excess flood coverage, as well as surplus lines insurers, have been directed to report claims data arising from Hurricane Delta...
Louisiana Gov. Edwards Rejects Legislation Giving Lawmakers More Emergency Power
Oct 29 2020 // Gov. John Bel Edwards has vetoed the centerpiece bill of Louisiana’s just-ended special session, a measure seeking to give lawmakers more authority in a governor’s emergency decisions, including the ability to...
Americas Insurance Waiving Separate Deductible in Louisiana After Delta, Laura
Oct 29 2020 // Americas Insurance Company will be waiving a separate deductible for Hurricane Delta for Louisiana insureds that were impacted by both Hurricanes Laura and Delta, provided they have satisfied their full named-storm...
Fast-Moving Zeta Wallops Louisiana, Causes Blackouts Across South; Damages Could Hit $5B
Oct 29 2020 // Tropical Storm Zeta is spinning across the U.S. South after walloping New Orleans, blacking out 1.9 million homes and businesses and leaving a trail of wreckage from Louisiana to North Carolina. Zeta made landfall near...
Hurricane Zeta Slams Louisiana With High Winds, Storm Surge
Oct 28 2020 // Oct 28 06:10 PM. Hurricane Zeta smashed into Louisiana on Wednesday with 110-mile-per-hour (175 kph) winds and what government trackers called “a life-threatening storm surge,” the third hurricane to hit the...
Black Man Killed by Police in Louisiana Did Not Have Knife, Lawsuit Says
Oct 28 2020 // The parents of a man killed by police in Louisiana is suing the Lafayette Police Department, saying their son did not have a knife when he was killed. Trayford Pellerin, 31, was killed Aug. 21 as he walked away from a...
Deadline for Louisiana Residents to Apply for Laura Aid Extended
Oct 28 2020 // Louisiana residents with damage from Hurricane Laura will get an extra month to sign up for disaster aid from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The deadline to register with FEMA had been set for Oct. 27. But the...
Louisiana Hunkers Down as Zeta Takes Aim at State
Oct 28 2020 // Louisiana prepared for the sixth lashing this year from a Gulf Coast system as Tropical Storm Zeta sped off the Yucatan Peninsula bringing high winds and rain to a region still reeling from a series of storms. Zeta was...
UPDATE: Tropical Storm Zeta Makes Landfall in Mexico, Threatens U.S. Gulf Coast
Oct 27 2020 // Zeta will move into the Gulf of Mexico in the next few hours after making landfall on the Yucatan Peninsula, then regain strength as it heads north toward Louisiana and likely comes ashore Wednesday. Now a tropical storm...
COVID-19 Aid Deadline Extended for Louisiana Fisheries Following Storms
Oct 27 2020 // Damage from Hurricanes Laura and Delta has prompted Louisiana to extend the deadline for fisheries’ workers and businesses to apply for help under a coronavirus pandemic program. Instead of ending on Oct. 26, the...
Company Cites Pandemic in Delay of $9B Louisiana Construction Project
Oct 23 2020 // A company is citing the coronavirus pandemic for its decision to delay some work on a more than $9 billion construction project in Louisiana. Formosa Plastics affiliate FG LA LLC said it is deferring major construction on...
3 More Guilty Pleas in Louisiana Staged Auto/Tractor-Trailer Crashes
Oct 23 2020 // Three more people have pleaded guilty to conspiring to stage accidents between automobiles and tractor-trailers in Louisiana, federal authorities say. Roderick Hickman, 49, of Baton Rouge; Bernell Gale, 43, of Raceland;...
Dredge Scarcity Could Make Rebuilding Louisiana’s Coast Slower, More Costly
Oct 22 2020 // Just as Louisiana begins an ambitious slate of projects to rebuild its crumbling coastline, the essential ingredients — sea sand and river silt — will be harder to come by. That’s not because these materials are...
Greenhouse Gas Storage Project Planned for Louisiana
Oct 21 2020 // A Louisiana company plans to create a deep underground repository to store up to 80 million tons of carbon gas now released into the air by state industrial plants, a “carbon sequestration” project aimed at...
More than 6,500 Still in Louisiana Shelters After Hurricanes
Oct 21 2020 // More than 6,500 people are still in temporary shelters after back-to-back hurricanes hit Louisiana, according to the state, but some are being told to leave. The Department of Children and Family Services said about 6,430...
4 Accused of Staging Louisiana Big Rig Crash Settle for $4.7M
Oct 20 2020 // Four people have been charged in what prosecutors say was a staged wreck that was settled for $4.7 million. The indictment brought the total to 32 people accused of faking accidents with tractor-trailers to get insurance...
Major Disaster Declaration Approved for Louisiana
Oct 19 2020 // The Trump Administration has approved a major disaster declaration for Louisiana, making federal assistance available to supplement state and local recovery efforts after Hurricane Delta. President Donald Trump’s...
Louisianans Warned of Contractor Fraud Following Dual Hurricanes
Oct 16 2020 // Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon and State Representative Jonathan Goudeau are warning residents affected by Hurricanes Laura and Delta that both the Louisiana Department of Insurance and Rep. Goudeau’s...
