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Underage Drinkers in Louisiana Have More Rights Than You Think
Football season is about to hit Louisiana like a Dustin Poirier right hand to the jaw. It gets underway with High School Jamborees in Lafayette, Lake Charles, Shreveport, Baton Rouge, New Orleans, and just about every other community in the state. Most of those jamborees will take place either tonight or Friday. Then we start the college football season on Saturday and the professional football season will begin their games on September 5th.
Former Atlanta CFO Jim Beard Sentenced to Three Years for Misuse of City Funds
Jim Beard, Atlanta's former Chief Financial Officer, was sentenced to three years in prison for misusing government funds for personal luxuries like hotel stays and machine guns. He will also serve three years of supervised release, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Georgia. Beard's fraud,...
Don’t Wear White After Labor Day – Louisiana, Do You Know Why?
In Morgan City, Louisiana the booths are being prepared, the stages are being built, the power lines are being run, and the funnel cakes are about to be dropped into the grease. It is the annual celebration of seafood and oil that's known as the Louisiana Shrimp and Petroleum Festival.
Stormy times ahead with heavy rains possible
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Stormy periods are on the way as a wet pattern settles in along the Gulf Coast heading into the holiday weekend. A quiet early morning will give way to a stormy lunch and afternoon period today. Rain chances are up to 80% and some of those storms will be quite heavy. Even though we’ve been dry, street flooding is a possibility due to the tropical downpours that are possible. The benefit to the clouds and rain will be temperature generally staying in the 80s through the day.
City, state leaders push to honor Hurricane Katrina as a Louisiana holiday
NEW ORLEANS — Nineteen years ago one of America's deadliest hurricanes struck the city of New Orleans. Hurricane Katrina was a category three storm that ended up being one of the country's most costly natural disasters. Nearly two decades on, the city is still healing. Now city and state...
Aug. 29th: The wounds may never fully heal, but the Spirit of Louisiana will live forever
On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall as a Category 3 storm. It would be one of the most deadly and costly natural disasters in our nation's history. The federal levees broke. New Orleans and its surrounding areas flooded. Close to 1,400 known people died, but many bodies were...
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