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Reports that universities and colleges in Louisiana face a backlog of maintenance estimated by the Board of Regents at $1.7 billion are both startling and troublesome.
State Commissioner of Higher Education Jim Purcell noted that the cost of this deferred maintenance is double the budget these inst ...
By Andrew Perzo / American Press
I have always heard that red, blue and green lights on vehicles in Louisiana are reserved for emergency vehicles only. Lately, I have seen numerous Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development vehicles with flashing red lights on the top. I also saw trucks working on I-10 near Iowa with ...
By Andrew Perzo / American Press
The Informer on Wednesday answered a question about the federal REAL ID Act of 2005, which sets national standards for the issuing of identification cards. Documents that don’t conform to the standards can’t be used to enter federal facilities or to board flights. Louisiana lawmake ...
By Scooter Hobbs / American Press
Hmmm. Just a little too convenient, don’t you think? Conspiracists are checking into it but, even if indeed it turns out to be creative bookkeeping, it appears that no NCAA rules will have been sidestepped. LSU didn’t have much to play for when the series began. When the Tigers won t ...
By Scooter Hobbs / American Press
Well, here we are, tragically, less than four months before the start of the next football season, and yet the NFL has still not figured out what to do with Tim Tebow. Let this be another lesson for what happens when you procrastinate. This should have been taken care of months ago, but now the T ...
By Jim Gazzolo / American Press
When Tiger Woods pulled out his 3-wood last Saturday, it did more than distract Sergio Garcia. It opened old wounds between the two. Garcia claims that Woods should know better, that he knew the fans would react just as Sergio was ready to hit his shot from across the fairway. To Tiger, Sergio w ...
Hurricane season is less than two weeks away, but now is the time to start preparing, said Dick Gremillion, director of the
Calcasieu Office of Emerg ...
A man accused of raping two young girls was found guilty of a lesser charge Tuesday in 14th Judicial District Court.
Late Tuesday, Judge Wilford Cart ...
BATON ROUGE — Legislation that includes
more than $251 million in projects for the Louisiana Community and Technical College System appears t ...
CINCINNATI (AP) — Tea party activists waving flags and signs, singing patriotic songs and chanting anti-IRS slogans held rallies outside federal ...
History has not been kind to the top seed at the Southland Conference baseball tournament.
Only twice in the last decade has the regular-season cham ...
BOSTON (AP) — The 50th Super Bowl will be held in the San Francisco Bay Area and the NFL championship will go to Houston the following year.Team ...
When the season was on the line, Bryce Kingsley came up big.
The freshman right-hander from Barbe pitched McNeese State into the Southland Conferenc ...
For the second time in three years, tiny Eunice is atop its part of the softball world.
The Lady Bengals claimed their second Division II national ju ...
The Lake Charles Community Band, a
volunteer group, will kick off its free summer concert series at 7 p.m. Monday, June 3, at the Arcade Amphitheat ...
The City of Lake Charles Recreation and
Parks Department is currently taking registration from 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m., 3rd floor, City Hall, 326 Pujo St. ...
If a restaurant can stay viable for almost three decades, it must be doing something right.
Mr. and Mrs. Jay Huang opened Peking Garden Chinese Resta ...
The study of ballet has meant more than just learning to dance to a graduating student of Lady Leah Lafargue School of the
Dance. “It gives yo ...
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