Port Vincent News

Cries for help have the attention of the state capitol tonight. Higher education in Louisiana faces more than 200 hundred million dollars in cuts.

A new video bingo hall in Port Vincent can't open its doors. Pier 13 Video Bingo has been sitting empty along Highway 16 for about two months.

Residents living in Port Vincent are worried their country living will be interrupted by big city life.

Police officers and school officials locked down French Settlement High and Elementary schools for about two hours today after a handgun was found this morning in an unregistered truck in the high school parking lot, authorities said.

There's been a rash of boat and boat related gear thefts in Port Vincent in the last few weeks.

Livingston Parish sheriff's deputies recovered the body of a Maurepas man who drowned in the lower Amite River early Saturday morning, deputies said Monday.

The secretary of the Department of Health and Hospitals told legislators Tuesday an internal audit has confirmed an employee worked at least 3,100 actual overtime hours.

The near-automatic pay raises seem out of line with private businesses, where many people are taking pay cuts just to keep their jobs during the recession, said Rep.

As plans for the toll loop around Baton Rouge move forward, one group from Port Vincent wants it nowhere near there.

The people of Mound Baptist Church are serving God with great enthusiasm, says Pastor Jay Simms.

State Troopers have arrested an Ascension man Sunday morning following a fatal hit and run crash that killed a man from Walker Saturday night.

Louisiana lawmakers agreed to part of the $300 million from the federal stimulus package that Governor Jindal plans to spend on roads and bridges across the state.

State Wildlife and Fisheries Secretary Robert Barham is working with area legislators to introduce a bill in the upcoming legislative session to require substance-abuse testing after serious injury or death ...

Monday afternoon, probation and patrol agents say they went to a home on Pinemont Drive in Livingston to monitor the parole of Daune McMorris, AKA Daune Ricker and determined they needed to arrest her.

The cold weather that first hit Louisiana on Wednesday still continues to cause various types of problems.