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Altice USA Launches $30 a Month `Entertainment TV’
NEW YORK—Altice USA’s Optimum is launching Entertainment TV, a new internet TV package of 80 plus channels for $30 a month that is available exclusively on Optimum Stream. Optimum Stream is a Android-powered streaming device offering access to streaming apps that is available to Optimum Internet customers. As part of the launch of Entertainment TV, the company said that it is expanding its Optimum Stream offering to nearly 1.5 million homes across markets in its West footprint, including Arkansas, Arizona, Louisiana, North Carolina, and Texas, with further expansion planned for later this year. Optimum Stream is already available to all Optimum internet customers...
It's been hot in Louisiana so far this year, but not as bad as 2023. Here are the numbers.
Temperatures throughout Louisiana have been historically warm for the first six months of 2024, data released Thursday showed, but not as hot as last year and significantly below the record for the same time period. Louisiana's average temperature for January through June was the 12th highest on record for that...
French Quarter businesses gear up to ban guns, push back on Louisiana's permitless carry law
People will soon be free to carry concealed guns in New Orleans without a permit, but those who do so in the French Quarter could soon find their options limited. Business owners in the Vieux Carré began Wednesday placing new laminated signs in storefronts announcing "No firearms allowed on this property," marking the latest local response to the state's new permitless carry law.
LDWF to hold public meeting to address Atchafalaya Basin freshwater fisheries concerns
Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) will hold a public meeting at 6 pm on Tuesday, July 23, 2024, in the Joe Herring Room of the LDWF Headquarters office located at 2000 Quail Drive, Baton Rouge, La. Inland Fisheries biologists will present current and past data describing fisheries trends in the Atchafalaya Basin, with emphasis on largemouth bass and crappie populations. Topics will include bass stocking in the Basin, regulations, and a brief description of LDWF’s pilot Tournament Information Project (LATRIP). Following the presentations, the public will be invited to ask questions or express concerns.
New Southland Industrial Coatings Manufacturing Facility in Acadiana to Create Nearly 300 New Jobs
WASHINGTON, La. – Southland Industrial Coatings announced it is investing $13.1 million to construct a new fireproofing facility in St. Landry Parish that will serve customers in the utility and renewable energy industries nationwide. With this expansion, the Louisiana-based family business expects to create 120 direct new jobs with...
10-year-old accidentally shoots, kills 4-year-old brother, Lafayette police say
LAFAYETTE, La. (KPLC) - A four-year-old has died after his 10-year-old brother accidentally shot him at a Lafayette home, police say. Officers responded to a home in the 100 block of Bryan Street around 10:30 a.m. today in response to an injured child, Lafayette Police Department spokesperson Ashley Wood said.
Jesus Worship Center of Lafayette celebrates growth, plans to open new location in Scott
The Jesus Worship Center of Lafayette was started in November of 2015, and for the past nine years, the church has grown in more ways than one. The church, at 208 Cadillac St. in Lafayette, is a full-gospel, non-denominational church, where they focus a great deal on the community and its people.
Lawyers push to relocate St. John elementary students from school next to chemical plant
The NAACP Legal Defense Fund is asking a federal judge to require St. John the Baptist Parish School Board to relocate students from an elementary school located right next to a chemical plant. Fifth Ward Elementary School sits about 500 feet from the Denka Performance Elastomers plant in the small, predominantly Black community of Reserve. […] The post Lawyers push to relocate St. John elementary students from school next to chemical plant appeared first on Louisiana Illuminator.
Thibodaux museum exhibits photos from Vacherie man who advocated for leprosy community
An exhibit at Thibodaux’s Jean Lafitte Museum shows how one man was both a patient and the chronicler of America’s first leprosy community. Carville, Louisiana, became America’s first leprosy quarantine community. The hospital began in 1894 and saw its last patients in 2016. Johnny P. Harmon was...
Foreman Drive in Lafayette closing to install drainage pipes near Lafayette High
LAFAYETTE, La. — Lafayette Consolidated Government (LCG) announces the upcoming closure of the 500 block of Foreman Drive. The road will be closed to all traffic from July 22-26, 2024. As part of the ongoing construction of the new Lafayette High School, the contractor will be installing new drainage...
Heavy rainfall in south Natchitoches Parish causes flooding, power outages
CLOUTIERVILLE, La. -- Nearly 5 inches of rainfall since Wednesday night has caused localized flooding and some power outages in the Derry and Cloutierville areas as of Thursday morning. Thunderstorms began around 7 p.m. with high wind, lightning and rain that led to downed trees, some of which took down...
‘My Baby Is Gone’: 12-Year-Old Shot to Death After Grown Woman Uses Her to Spy on Cheating Boyfriend Amid Louisiana Love Triangle Feud
A Louisiana woman reached a plea deal with prosecutors after being charged with the murder of a young girl who was dragged into a lovers […] ‘My Baby Is Gone’: 12-Year-Old Shot to Death After Grown Woman Uses Her to Spy on Cheating Boyfriend Amid Louisiana Love Triangle Feud
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