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Louisiana Launches $463M Project to Elevate Hurricane Evacuation Route

Louisiana state leaders have broken ground for a $463 million project that will elevate 8.3 miles of La. 1, one of the state’s hurricane evacuation routes. The groundbreaking held Friday is for work that will be done between Golden Meadow …

Lawsuit Filed Over Fatal Shooting of Arkansas Teen

The family of an unarmed Arkansas teenager fatally shot by a sheriff’s deputy during a traffic stop filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against the deputy and a county sheriff over the teen’s death. The family of Hunter Brittain filed the …

Settlement Made in Louisiana Workers’ Crawfish Processing Suit

Six migrant workers would share in a total of more than $21,000 in the proposed settlement of a lawsuit filed last year alleging that a Louisiana crawfish processing business underpaid them in violation of minimum wage laws. The proposed settlement …

Nursing Home Owner Whose Residents Suffered in Ida in Trouble

The owner of seven Louisiana nursing homes who sent more than 800 of his elderly residents to a crowded, ill-equipped warehouse to ride out Hurricane Ida last year was arrested Wednesday on fraud and cruelty charges arising from the squalid …

Dredging Company Paying $1M for Restoration in Louisiana Oil Spill

A Houston dredging company has been ordered to pay a $1 million fine for an oil spill that occurred when a subcontractor cut through an oil pipeline during barrier island restoration work off Louisiana in 2016. Great Lakes Dredge & …

TWIA Shares Timeline For Annual Rate Filing Consideration

The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association announced this week the timeline for its annual rate filing consideration. By law, TWIA must make a rate filing with the Texas Department of Insurance by August 15 each year. TWIA’s Actuarial & Underwriting Committee …

Alacrity Solutions Acquires Property Damage Appraisers In Texas

Alacrity Solutions Group LLC acquired Property Damage Appraisers in Fort Worth, Texas. PDA is an independent specialty and auto damage appraisal firm.. PDA’s corporate The transaction with PDA is Alacrity’s 11th acquisition since 2015. Alacrity Solutions, based in Fishers, Indiana, …

Deshaun Watson Settles 20 of 24 Civil Suits from Time with Texans

Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson’s decision to settle 20 of 24 civil lawsuits for sexual misconduct may not dissuade the NFL from giving him a lengthy suspension, a person familiar with the league’s investigation told the Associated Press on Tuesday. …

Texas Top Cop Says Uvalde Police Could’ve Ended Rampage Early on

Police had enough officers on the scene of the Uvalde school massacre to have stopped the gunman three minutes after he entered the building, and they would have found the door to the classroom where he was holed up unlocked …

Staffing Company Faces National Origin Discrimination in Oklahoma

ResourceMFG, a national manufacturing specialty staffing company, violated federal law when it failed to refer an Oklahoma job applicant for employment because she was not born in the United States, the U.S. Equal Employment Oppor­tunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a …

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