Buras News

A bill designed to give the Port of New Orleans the power to undertake certain projects in Plaquemines Parish was lambasted Wednesday by the Plaquemines Parish Council as a "land grab" and a "takeover." The ...

On Sunday, April 20th, 2008 at 20:47 PM, Louisiana State Police, Troop B investigated a four vehicle fatal crash on I-55 northbound at milepost 14. via Louisiana State Police

“That you don't come up to somebody who you don't know and you don't pull guns out on them . . . Sean was going on. I guess trying to make it right.”

After three years and as many attempts to start his trial, Jerrado Patterson has pleaded guilty to manslaughter in a pre-Katrina shooting in Algiers. via Times-Picayune

A Harvey man has been indicted in federal court with stealing more than $100,000 from customers at his family's dry cleaners by stealing their credit card numbers. via Times-Picayune

“I wouldn't want to go back with any other group. We're like a family, really.”

Hours before the sun rises today, Spec. Eluniece "El" Williams will have checked on his young son and daughter as they sleep in their Slidell home before reporting for duty that will eventually take him to the ... via NOLA.com

“I don't want people to beware of my dogs”

The pet Doberman pinscher shot and killed by a police officer in the back yard of a Lakeview home charged at the officers who came to check out a house alarm, a New Orleans Police Department spokeswoman said ... via Times-Picayune

On Sunday, April 13th, 2008 at 3:50 PM, Louisiana State Police, Troop B investigated a two vehicle fatal crash on LA 628 just east of LA 636-1, in Laplace. via Louisiana State Police

“Our work and our energies are concentrating on making sure that they get all the information they need to get an accurate count in the parish during the next census”

Although St. Tammany Parish officials believe the latest population estimate for the parish is too low, they say they won't contest the figures as they did last year. via Times-Picayune

“I think going through that and being reviewed very well by them is a testament to the people who work here and our medical staff”

Heralding it as a boon for cancer care in southeast Louisiana, East Jefferson General Hospital has established a partnership with the University of Texas' M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. via Times-Picayune

At 11:45 PM, on April 7, 2008, Louisiana State Police Troop L investigated a one vehicle crash involving a pedestrian. via Louisiana State Police

Posted by Roberta Carrow-Jackson April 04, 2008 4:21PM Categories: Arts Business This Tuesday, April 8, the St. via Times-Picayune

“How can we say that we have not missed the opportunity to hit the reset button when we've got empty slabs all over town?”

I'm not sure what viewership penetration PBS has in FEMA trailers, so here's a public-service message from Edward Blakely, New Orleans recovery czar: "I want to say something to all of the viewers," said ... via Times-Picayune

April is an auspicious month for Louisiana ArtWorks . For the first time, artists will be able to use the long-awaited Howard Avenue facility. via Times-Picayune

A 20-year-old New Orleans woman whose infant son died after ingesting a lethal dose of her cocaine-laced breast milk last spring pleaded guilty today in Criminal District Court to negligent homicide, a crime ... via NOLA,com

A Covington-area man pleaded guilty this week to hitting the woman he lived with, and then striking her father over the head with a pistol last May. via Times-Picayune

Posted by Roberta Carrow-Jackson March 24, 2008 3:32PM Categories: Art News This Tuesday, March 25, the St. via Times-Picayune

“We haven't been served with the suit, but we're reviewing the allegations now”

Board members and former executives of Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp. via Times-Picayune

Folk occupations, assessments of Gulf Coast folk traditions and the concept of home will be examined during the 2008 annual meeting of the Louisiana Folklore Society at the University of New Orleans on April ... via News-Star

“There has been successful activity in the deepwater. People are going farther away from shore and deeper into the Gulf.”

Today's scheduled sale of drilling tracts in the Gulf of Mexico has drawn significant interest from the oil and gas industry after a banner auction in 2006 drummed up $2.9 billion in high bids, the most offered ... via Times-Picayune

“Look at the wildfires in California. Look at the cancellation of policies on the Atlantic coast as they fear storms.”

Louisiana must act now to turn around its intertwined crises of hurricane vulnerability, coastal erosion and fleeing industry, Gov. via Times-Picayune