FEMA mitigation specialists will give tips about rebuilding and protecting homes from future disaster-related damage such as high winds and water at local hardware stores in Chauvin and Morgan City, Louisiana. They will also have information about selecting contractors, flood …
A Texas woman has been sentenced for conspiring to stage automobile accidents in order to defraud insurance trucking companies United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced Genetta Isreal age 53, of Houston, Texas, was sentenced Dec. 16 for Conspiracy to …
Louisiana residents who lost their homes to Hurricane Ida or have not had power since the late-August storm tell a newspaper the power company is still billing them for hundreds of dollars a month. Those bills could be for electricity …
Federal regulators have announced plans to make Louisiana and a suburban New Orleans fuel plant clean up emissions that have violated air quality standards since at least 2013. The Environmental Protection Agency says a plant owned by Rain CII Carbon …
A Texas county approved a $5 million wrongful death lawsuit settlement Tuesday with the family of a man who sheriff’s deputies shocked with stun guns after a 2019 chase that was filmed by the real-time police TV series “Live PD.” …
An unnamed Louisiana private insurer will assume to acquire all policies from two insolvent homeowners insurance companies that were placed into receivership in November by the Louisiana Department of Insurance. Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon approved the transaction Wednesday, Dec. …
Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Glen Mulready is encouraging residents to take precautions against porch piracy as the winter holiday season nears. According to C + R Research, 230 million Americans will be shopping online this year, and 43% cite themselves as …
A Texas jury has awarded a largely symbolic settlement of more than $301 billion in a lawsuit against a Corpus Christi bar brought by the family of a woman and her 16-year-old granddaughter who were killed in a car crash …
A wildfire that forced evacuations in rural southwestern Oklahoma last week destroyed five homes, 14 barns and nine vehicles, officials said Monday. Three of the burned homes were unoccupied, said Comanche County Emergency Management spokeswoman Amy Hawkins. The fire, which …
An outpouring of legislative opposition and a likely threat of litigation aren’t changing Gov. John Bel Edwards’ mind about requiring some Louisiana students to get the COVID-19 vaccine during the next school year or file a written opt-out form. The …
