Washington (AP) — A "super" political action committee backing Mitt Romney's White House run raised more than $6 million last
month. Financial reports released Monday show the Restore Our Future super PAC pulled in much of its fundraising haul from donors who gave hundreds of thousands of ...
BY DORIS MARICLE / AMERICAN PRESS
Voters across the state went to the polls on Saturday. With a relative light ballot, experts predicted a very low voter turnout. Pick up a copy of Sunday's American Press for stories on all the winners and a breakdown of how everyone voted. STATEWIDE RESULTS Amendment No. 1 (PASSED) — Loui ...
BY DORIS MARICLE / AMERICAN PRESS
Voters across the state will head back to the polls on Saturday. Statewide, the ballot includes a proposed constitutional amendment to prohibit new taxes or fees by the state and its political subdivision on the sale or transfer of immovable property after Nov. 30, 2011. Locally, it will be a con ...
BY DORIS MARICLE / AMERICAN PRESS
Voters across the state will head back to the polls on Saturday. Statewide, the ballot includes a proposed constitutional amendment to prohibit new taxes or fees by the state and its political subdivision on the sale or transfer of immovable property after Nov. 30, 2011. Locally, it will be a con ...
BY DORIS MARICLE / AMERICAN PRESS
Early voting for the Nov. 19 election will run Nov. 5-12 at registrar of voters offices in Allen, Beauregard, Cameron, Calcasieu, Jeff Davis and and Vernon. Click here for complete Nov. 19 ballots for Southwest Louisiana. Voters can cast ballots 8:30 a.m.-6 p.m. daily except Sunday, Nov. 6 and Fr ...BY TAYLOR PREJEAN / AMERICAN PRESS
In a standing-room-only town hall meeting on Thursday, interim Merryville Mayor Teresa Havens said she will not terminate two city employees who were previously on the chopping block. Havens said she will suspend the city clerk and a public works employee until Nov. 1 when mayor-elect Larry Carroll ...BY DORIS MARICLE / AMERICAN PRESS
JENNINGS — The Jeff Davis Parish Police Jury is asking the state for more than $7 million in capital outlay funds. The five-year state capital outlay request was adopted unanimously Wednesday by police jurors. Police Jury President Donald Woods stressed that the plan is “only a wish li ...BY ALAN BLINDER / AMERICAN PRESS
Calcasieu Parish’s top elections official said Wednesday that the parish has certified its results from Saturday’s elections. After a bipartisan group of elections supervisors reviewed the results, Clerk of Clerk Lynn Jones said his office had forwarded the final tally to the Secretary ...
SOILEAU — The sounds of Cajun and Zydeco music echoed through the countryside Monday as hundreds of revelers roamed the back
roads of rural All ...
An Iowa businessman wants the chairman of the Lake Charles Planning and Zoning Commission to step down after a controversial
vote involving a planned ...
A weekend of Carnival revelry will come to an end today with several Fat Tuesday parades and chicken runs in the area.
Two parades will make their wa ...
Today’s college and university students have
had opportunities throughout their educational journeys to learn about black history in a way th ...
Matt Flynn is about to be somebody’s NFL starting quarterback.
He had to wait four years, but that’s OK. He’s done it before. He& ...
Only the future and the unpredictable nature of tournament play will determine whether tonight’s game between McNeese State
and Texas-Arlington ...
McNeese’s baseball team continues its season-opening road trip today, two hours from home, when the Cowboys travel to face
LSU. But several Mc ...
SULPHUR — The postseason drought is over for the Sulphur Lady Tors, who beat Terrebonne 54-33 in a Class 5A bi-district game
Monday night, its ...
The Children’s Theatre Company attended the 2012 Louisiana Thespian Festival on Jan. 27-28 on the campus of Northwestern State
University in Na ...“The Hell of ’63,” a 2009 Dutch film, will be presented free by Calcasieu Cinema International at 7 p.m. Feb. 24 in the Central
Sch ...
The McNeese State University Cowboy Marching
Band is one of five university marching bands selected for video performance at the 2012 College Band ...
“Grace and Glorie,” a play that opens at the Lake Charles Little Theater at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 24, is a great vehicle for the
two actresses, ...
