Author Archives: Jeff Palermo
NFIB Small Business Optimism Index below average for 28th consecutive month
A national survey finds small business optimism increased slightly in April, but NFIB's small business optimism index remains below a 50-year average for a 28th consecutive month. NFIB state director ...
May 15, 2024
Sentence passed in 2023 Avoyelles Parish vehicular homicide of Lauren Vaughn
Christopher McCoy of Bunkie has pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide in the death of Lauren Vaughn. She was a 22 year-old nursing student from Alexandria and was a passenger in McCoy's vehicle when it...
May 15, 2024
Demolition planned for Lake Charles' Hertz Building
The Skyline of Lake Charles is changing as the tall, mirrored Hertz building is finally coming down. It has been four years since the building sustained significant damage in Hurricane Laura leaving m...
May 15, 2024 Nic Hunter, Mayor of Lake Charles
Today is the deadline to pay your state income taxes
Today is the deadline to file your state income tax. But don't worry if you need more time. Louisiana has an automatic six-month extension for November 15, 2024. La Port CPA & Business Advisors, C...
May 15, 2024 Got Credit / CC
One of the bills to restrict the release of records from the governor's office dead for the session
West Monroe Senator Jay Morris has withdrawn his legislation that would have restricted the public release of records and internal communications from Governor Jeff Landry's office. Morris made the an...
May 14, 2024
Three confirmed dead in West Baton Rouge and St. Martin Parishes due to severe weather
The Louisiana Department of Health has confirmed three-storm related deaths from yesterday's severe weather, including a woman who was nine months pregnant. The fetus did not survive and is counted as...
May 14, 2024 Jan-Erik Finnberg / CC
First Communion at St. Mary Magdalen Church in Abbeville interrupted by armed Teenager
The pastor of St. Mary Magdalen Church in Abbeville says 60 children were set to receive their First Communion on Saturday when a teenager entered the church and brandished a gun. Law enforcement was ...
May 14, 2024 dovapi / Depositphotos.com
Plan to place Cameras on I-10 Atchafalaya Basin Bridge Scrapped
The Louisiana House has given final legislative approval to a bill that scraps a plan to put cameras up on the I-10 Atchafalaya Basin Bridge that would issue tickets to speeding violators resulting in...
May 14, 2024 valtron84 / Depositphotos.com
Peak Season for Formosan Termites hits Louisiana
Louisiana has hit the peak for termite swarm season. LSU Ag Center Entomologist Dr. Aaron Ashbrook says Formosan subterranean termites are attracted to light so keep interior lights off at night to pr...
May 14, 2024 Katja Schulz / CC
Louisiana ranked 40th in pre-K through 12th grade education
Louisiana Pre-k through 12 education ranked 40th this year in US News and World Report Best States rankings. That is up from 41st in 2023 and jumped up from 46th in 2019. Louisiana State Superintenden...
May 13, 2024
