Hurricane Gustav News

October's Baton Rouge-area home sales edged past year-ago levels, although 2008 sales were affected by Hurricane Gustav.

A Port Arthur man faces 10 years in federal prison for an incident that happened during the 2008 Hurricane Gustav evacuation.

A Port Arthur man has been convicted by a federal jury for stealing guns from a residence during last year's evacuation for Hurricane Gustav.

Adams County spent $2.1 million more in the 2008-2009 fiscal year than it had budgeted.

Steele Burden, whose family gave more than 400 acres of land on either side of I-10 near Essen Lane to LSU, laid out a tree and shrub identification trail behind what is now the Burden Conference Center.

While many pastors of churches on the Gulf Coast are reaching out to the community, Gulfhaven Mennonite Church's pastor Nelson Roth is reaching out to the pastors.

People in the greater New Orleans area are understandably relieved that Tropical Storm Ida, which as a hurricane killed 124 people in El Salvador, has weakened in strength and seems to be ready to skirt the coast.

A controversial proposal asking residents if they want to ban new apartment complexes in St.

But after a quiet Atlantic storm season, many took the year's first serious threat in stride.

Squalls ahead of a rare late-season tropical storm blew in heavy rain tonight to parts of the Gulf Coast where residents hunkered down at home and in shelters anticipating high winds and flooding.

Rep. Anh "Joseph" Cao, R-La., was the only Republican to support the health reform bill, just a year after becoming a minor GOP celebrity for capturing a reliably Democratic congressional district in New Orleans, Politico reports.

Coastal areas of Mississippi were under a tropical storm warning Monday after Ida lost strength over the water on its way to a landfall sometime early Tuesday.

Hurricane Ida roared through the Gulf of Mexico yesterday, where important oil fields are located, after triggering floods and mudslides that killed 124 people in El Salvador.

Anh "Joseph" Cao, a Vietnamese-born former ethics teacher and Catholic seminarian, last winter surprised and delighted Republicans by defeating a longtime incumbent in a heavily Democratic congressional district in Louisiana.

IBERVILLE PARISH, LA - The immediate fate of an historic church in Iberville Parish has been decided: St.

Laverne J. James, 53, of Ball, LA, who has been employed by the Town of Ball Police Department since 1993, pled guilty today to conspiring with others to defraud the Federal Emergency Management Agency following Hurricanes Rita and Gustav, United States Attorney Donald W. Washington announced.

The Ball police clerk pleaded guilty Wednesday afternoon to a charge of conspiracy to defraud the Federal Emergency Management Agency after both Hurricanes Rita and Gustav.

A Utah startup hopes its mobile solar trailers will be useful in emergencies - though it's finding other uses as well.

A year ago, south Louisiana residents were still digging out from Hurricane Gustav, a storm that brought lots of neighbors together to share the hardships of power outages and the work of cleanup and rebuilding.

The recession in a nutshell: 371 of 372 metropolitan areas in the country recorded higher unemployment rates in September 2009 than September 2008.