Category Archives: News
Waitr assisting drivers with high gas prices
Since the start of the pandemic, home food delivery has become a bigger part of our lives. But record-high gas prices are impacting drivers. So Waitr has implemented a new GasCard program, giving driv...
Mar 24, 2022
Governor's tornado emergency declaration covers St. Bernard and three other parishes
Governor John Bel Edwards declares a state of emergency for four southeast Louisiana parishes affected by Tuesday's tornadoes. Edwards spoke with the media after surveying the damage in Arabi. The gov...
Mar 24, 2022
A bill to create an authority to oversee named storm insurance fraud advances from committee
A bill to create a board entitled the Louisiana Named Storm Insurance Fraud Prevention Authority passes in House Insurance on a seven to five vote. Bill author, Alexandria Representative Ed Larvadain ...
Mar 23, 2022 Hurricane Ida 2021.
A bill to limit the release of mugshots to the public in Louisiana passes in committee and heads to the House
New Orleans Representative Royce Duplessis wants to limit the release of mugshots in Louisiana, in an effort to prevent those who are innocent from the public embarrassment that it can impose. "It wil...
Mar 23, 2022 Rep Royce Duplessis (D) New Orleans
Louisiana to receive $1.7 to assist with recovery from Hurricanes, Laura, Delta, and Ida
Louisiana will receive nearly $1.7 billion in federal assistance for continued rebuilding from hurricanes in 2020 and 2021. The money comes from the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development...
Mar 23, 2022
Powerful tornado kills one and causes extensive damage in St. Bernard Parish
The National Weather Service says it was at least an EF 3 tornado with winds of at least 135 miles per hour that caused significant damage in Arabi in St. Bernard Parish. So far only one storm-related...
Mar 23, 2022
Bills to increase penalties for carjacking and catalytic converter theft head to Senate floor
Legislation to increase penalties for the theft of catalytic converters and the use of a firearm in a carjacking advance from committee. River Ridge Senator Kirk Talbot, who authored both bills referr...
Mar 23, 2022 Baton Rouge Police and East Baton Rouge Sheriff's Deputies at the home of Matthew and Brooke Gibson, 8915 Stonecroft Ave.
Four teens arrested in the horrifying carjacking death of a New Orleans woman who's arm was severed from her body
Four teenagers involved in the horrific New Orleans carjacking that claimed the life of a 73-year-old Linda Frickey Monday have been arrested. Frickey was dragged to her death and died after her arm w...
Mar 22, 2022 73-year old Linda Frickey of New Orleans.
State lawmakers looking into Ronald Greene fatal arrest can't get answers on why some LSP personnel had their phones wiped clean
The special House committee looking into the 2019 fatal arrest of motorist Ronald Greene tried to figure out today why the phones of three high-ranking State Police officers were wiped clean of inform...
Mar 22, 2022
Bills to deter carjacking and catalytic converter theft to be heard in committee Tuesday
River Ridge Senator and Chair of the Senate Judiciary C Committee Kirk Talbot is hoping to increase the penalties for the ever-growing crimes of carjacking and catalytic converter theft. Talbot says h...
Mar 22, 2022 River Ridge Senator Kirk Talbot
