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Ida Shelters program coming to an end April 30, will save Louisiana $2 million a month
The state-run Ida Shelters program officially will end this month, affecting about 800 people statewide who are homeless since Hurricane Ida. When Hurricane Ida tore through Lafourche and Terrebonne Aug. 29, 2021, officials recognized the Federal Emergency Management Agency would take time to respond. FEMA agreed to fund the Louisiana Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness's emergency housing program: Ida Shelters. The program housed more than 3,500 people in Terrebonne and Lafourche, and rolled its first campers out three weeks after the storm.
Fifth-graders learn the law by holding mock trial in Terrebonne courtroom
Fifth-graders held a mock trial for a fellow student alleged to have brought drugs to school that ended in a guilty verdict and sentencing by an 11-year-old judge. The Terrebonne Parish courthouse and DA's Office welcomed fifth-graders from public and private schools March 25 through 28 to hold mock trials in Houma's largest courtroom. The students donned robes, badges, suits and ties. They served as judges, prosecutors, bailiffs, defendants and jurors as they read from scripts written by the DA's office in 1997. The scripts were updated this year to fit current laws.
Judge denies two motions in lawsuit over FEMA’s Risk Rating 2.0 flood insurance
A U.S. District Court Judge denied two motions in a lawsuit over a flood insurance dispute involving 10 states and the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The two motions in front of Judge Darrel J. Papillion were a preliminary injunction that would pause the implementation of Risk Rating 2.0 - the new way FEMA is assessing risks to price insurance - and FEMA's motion to throw the entire case out.
Terrebonne General, Thibodaux Regional CEOs questioned in service district lawsuit
The chief executives of the bayou region's two largest hospitals were questioned by attorneys Wednesday at a trial that will determine whether one can operate clinics in the other's service area. Terrebonne General Health System and Thibodaux Regional Health System each provide services within separate hospital districts created by state law. They are governed by their own boards of commissioners, whose members are appointed by their own parish governments. ...
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