Port Allen News

Alyica Owens died when the car her friend was driving ran off the road and hit a tree.

An unrestrained Port Allen man was killed last night in a single-vehicle crash on LA 986 east of LA 415 in West Baton Rouge Parish.

Flag ceremonies by the Alexander Sterling Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, in East Feliciana Parish cemeteries: 9 a.m., Dawson Cemetery; and 3 p.m., Town of Jackson Cemetery, Clinton Masonic Cemetery and Redwood Cemetery, La.

A Louisiana family is humming a different tune this evening. It's the droning of the hundreds of thousands of honeybees that have invaded this Port Allen home.

High school marching bands from Louisiana, Texas and Arkansas are scheduled to compete in the 2009 Northwestern State University Marching Contest Saturday at Turpin Stadium on the NSU campus in Natchitoches.

Proceeds go to St. Mary Outreach United Way. $20. Anti-Poverty Workshop: 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Roman Catholic Diocese of Lafayette, 1408 Carmel Ave., Lafayette, sponsored by the Office of Justice and Peace.

Ashley Brooke Watford and Blake Anthony Altazan were united in marriage on Saturday, October 17, 2009 during a candlelight ceremony at the First United Methodist Church in Greenville, Alabama.

The Port of Greater Baton Rouge will solicit proposals from companies interested in operating the grain elevator at the port's main Port Allen facility.

A Port Allen man has been arrested after allegedly altering a check from an elderly couple.

Death-row inmate Derrick Todd Lee was in 18th Judicial District Court on Tuesday seeking a new trial in the January 2002 beating and stabbing death of an Addis woman.

More than 1,600 job seekers have already signed up for e-mail updates on a Web site created for V-Vehicle Co.

Community volunteers, students from LSUa s Pi Sigma Epsilon Beta Xi Chapter and students from the LSU Flores MBA Program partnered with students from Habitat for Humanity at LSU to build a house in Port Allen on Saturday morning.

A $2 million-plus overlay project on Esler Field Road is among the projects for which bids were opened recently by the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development.

A Port Allen woman was sentenced to two years in prison Thursday following a guilty plea to health care fraud and money laundering.

Johnson & Johnson's McNeil unit is voluntarily recalling 57 lots of infants' and children's liquid Tylenol products because of possible bacterial contamination.

A teenager was arrested Wednesday in connection with a shooting near Cohn Elementary School, authorities reported Thursday.

A Port Allen businesswoman received a two-year prison term and a bill from the federal government Thursday for $103,982 after she pleaded guilty to health-care fraud and money laundering.

There is a law that says police officers cannot bond anyone out of jail. There are questions surrounding an Addis police officer who allegedly did that to get his cousin, a suspect in several area pharmacy burlaries, out of jail.

Two Acadiana road projects were among more than $76 million in bids considered at the Aug.

Police arrested a 27-year-old Brusly man Thursday on suspicion that he robbed a local pharmacy, the police department reported.