Sulphur News

Thus far, in the battle of humans versus machinesa 'a.k.a., drivers versus traffic cameras doling out speeding ticketsa 'it's the machines that are kicking our fleshy tushes.

Members of a large scale illegal alien transportation operation based in Sulphur, La., were sentenced in federal court yesterday, United States Attorney Donald W. Washington announced.

Max Air Helicopters, a Sulphur, Louisiana based helicopter service company, will provide helicopter rides to festival attendees at the 37th annual Rayne Frog Festival for a fee of $30 per person based on three passenger capacity.

PORT SULPHUR, La. - State officials will inspect the site of an oil spill in a marsh near Port Sulphur High School.

Louisiana State Police press release: One person was killed in a Sunday afternoon crash when the vehicle she was a passenger in ran off Interstate 10 west of Sulphur and flipped several times.

Sulphur, Louisiana police said a Vidor woman led them on a high speed chase early Tuesday, October 13 that ended with a crash.

Best Selling Author, Terry A. O'Neal, whose poetry has been published in numerous magazines, journals and newspapers, will visit Sulphur High and Barbe High School students on Friday, October 23, 2009, in honor of Neighborhood: Teen Read Week.

Two local lawmakers will host an informational meeting on the status of the Gifted and Talented program in Louisiana public education on Monday in Lafayette.

Third Louisiana Resource LLC, a subsidiary of Baton Rouge-based Resource Environmental Solutions LLC, has won the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' approval for Phase I of its mitigation bank in Cameron Parish.

Petty Officer 3rd Class Jimmy D. Guidry, a hospital corpsman formerly with 3rd Medical Battalion, Combat Logistics Regiment 35, 3rd Marine Logistics Group, III Marine Expeditionary Force, treats a local injured child during a 2007-2008 deployment to Afghanistan.

For a parish notoriously known for bad roads, Saint Landry Parish officials are excited about a road mixture that could help repair some surfaces that desperately need it.

LAKE CHARLES - A Calcasieu Parish jury has found 28-year-old Jonathan Boyer guilty of second-degree murder in the Feb.

Mr. Hulan and Julie Porterpan of Lafayette along with Mr. Robert and Debbie DuBois of Sulphur announce the engagement of their daughter, Rande' Lynn DuBois to Woody James Goodly, Jr.

A Board of Elementary and Secondary Education decision Tuesday to send rules for implementing the state's new career diploma to another panel for review irked the state lawmakers who pushed the legislation through the Legislature.

Four young children gather in their FEMA trailer in Port Sulphur, Louisiana. Seven children and four adults from the family are still living in a FEMA trailer after their home was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina.

Dear Abby: At the age of 72, having had two spouses, I need to put in my two cents regarding "Still Hot and Bothered in Georgia." I have learned that some women won't say "no!" to a husband's amorous advances, especially in the morning.

I mentioned this in last Wednesday's paper, but if you missed it, here it is again.

Every Saturday morning at 8 a.m., the stretch of Bilbo Street behind Historic City Hall Arts & Cultural Center comes alive as local vendors set up shop.

A Houston man died after his vehicle left the road in a curve and crashed into a tree in Sulphur, La.

LAKE CHARLES, La. -A Sulphur man has died of injuries he received when his stalled car was hit by another vehicle on Interstate 10 in Lake Charles.