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Acadiana inbox: Annie Spell wins BCBS foundation's Angel Award
Annie W. Spell, a child psychology consultant and board member at Hearts of Hope, was awarded the 2024 Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation Angel Award. The award, in its 30th year, recognizes those who have made extraordinary efforts to improve the lives and health of Louisiana's children.
Funeral arrangements for Louisiana attorney, former legislator announced
SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – Funeral arrangements were announced for a former attorney and state legislator from Shreveport. Willie James Singleton‘s funeral services will be held on Saturday, August 31, at 11 a.m. at the Strand Theater, 619 Louisiana Avenue. According to a brief biography on the R.W. Norton...
Space Force chief on protecting America’s interests in space; New Orleans libraries’ voter education programs
Gov. Jeff Landry announced two orders this week: one that keeps noncitizens from voting and another that bans the teaching of critical race theory in public schools. The Times Picayune/New Orleans Advocate’s editorial director and columnist Stephanie Grace joins us for more on Landry’s “culture war” orders.
DeRidder Council OKs new software program for fire department
By Emily Burleigh The DeRidder City Council approved a new software program for the DeRidder Fire Department at Monday’s council meeting. Fire Chief Ken Harlow said at the meeting that due to computer system changes, the fire department needed to adopt a new universal program for employees to track inventory and conduct checklists. Each week, […]
Shreveport lawmaker fought ethics board for years before authoring new ethics laws
Freshman state legislators typically promise to bring back more money to their districts or to pursue broader policy. But the very first two bills Rep. Steven Jackson, D-Shreveport, authored during his first regular in the Louisiana Legislature had an unusual target for a new lawmaker: Louisiana’s Board of Ethics.
Check your tickets. $50K Louisiana Lottery ticket unclaimed and about to expire.
As of today, no one has stepped forward to claim a $50,000 Louisiana Lottery Powerball prize won on April 6, 2024. The winning ticket was purchased at Lakeview Discount on Harrison Avenue in New Orleans and is set to expire on Oct. 3, 2024. The winning ticket matched four of...
Alexandria Farmers Market Celebrates 10 Years
ALEXANDRIA, La. - The Alexandria Farmers Market is celebrating ten years of serving the Central Louisiana community, marking a decade of growth, resilience, and community building. Over the past decade, the market has served as a crucial food access point, a farm and food business incubator and a community gathering...
Poll: Pelican Seafood & Poboy in Pineville has the best chicken wings
Where can you go in the Alexandria/Pineville area to get good chicken wings? According to a Town Talk readers’ poll, it’s Pelican Seafood & Poboy in Pineville. The restaurant located at 2708 Highway 28 East won with 25.58 percent of the votes. Buffalo Wild Wings, 2711 S. MacArthur Drive, in Alexandria came in second with 20.93 percent. Twenty restaurants were listed in the poll. This article originally appeared on Alexandria Town Talk: Poll: Pelican Seafood & Poboy in Pineville has the best chicken wings
National Hunting and Fishing Day set for Sept. 28, 2024
Louisiana’s National Hunting and Fishing Day (NHFD) will be held Sept. 28 at four locations across the state, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) announced. Waddill Wildlife Refuge in Baton Rouge, Woodworth Shooting Range in Woodworth, the Tom Merrill Recreation Area at Bodcau Wildlife Management Area (WMA)...
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.
Tropical Models Raising Concerns for Louisiana & Gulf of Mexico
Louisiana parents know the eerie feeling that quietness can bring on. For example, you're working in your home office, and the kids are supposed to be playing. But you don't hear them; they are being quiet—too quiet. That's when a parent's "spidey senses" start tingling because they know they could literally be seconds from disaster.
One-on-One: Insurance Commissioner Tim Temple discusses the insurance crisis & efforts to address it
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) -On the third anniversary of Hurricane Ida, Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Tim Temple discussed the stubborn insurance crisis and said he works every day to solve the problem. Hundreds of thousands of insurance claims were filed after Ida devastated southeast Louisiana on August 29, 2021, the same day...
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