BY ANDREW PERZO / AMERICAN PRESS
This might sound like a stupid question, but who is responsible if a Mardi Gras float hits someone?
As is usually the case with legal questions, both civil and criminal, it depends on the circumstances.
But — assuming here the reader refers to civil law — R.S. 9:2796 provides a guide. ...
BY ERIC CORMIER / AMERICAN PRESS
Smothered deer and pork sausage and potatoes.
Uncomplicated, savory and filling. That is what I thought when my brother in all things culinary –– Brad Puckett –– told
me about a dinner he prepared for his family a few days ago.
As a result, potatoes and sausage have been o ...
“Father of His Country” might seem like an inflated title if it was given to any other man but George Washington. Our first
president was born on this day in the year 1732 in Westmoreland County, Va.
Not only was he the first president
of the United States, he has also been called the ...
Southwest Louisiana is not for the faint of heart.
Especially not during Mardi Gras.
Local hearty party-goers and would-be parade participants — these include man and beasts — weathered some heavy rains this weekend, washing out the Krewe of Barkus, the dogs’ parade, and the ...
BY ANDREW PERZO / AMERICAN PRESS
Are the temporary speed limit signs — 25 mph — I see on Weaver Road and by Prien Lake Park on Henderson Bayou Road legally
binding?
I appreciate the need to protect children, but these signs are flimsy and end up in the road.
Does the sheriff approve of these?
The signs, which list s ...
BY ANDREW PERZO / AMERICAN PRESS
Coming into Iowa from I-10 there’s a partially demolished service station that’s been that way for over a year. Can the city
do anything about this eyesore?
“In mid-September of 2011, we sent a newsletter to each resident asking for their cooperation in improving the appearance
...
In leaving Sowela and Southwest Louisiana, former Chancellor Andrea Lewis Miller took great pride in what the two-year school
had accomplished during her five-year reign at the top.
She should.
Under Miller’s direction, the community college has marked advancements in enrollment, curriculum ...
Tougher academic entrance standards for incoming freshman this fall is causing costernation not only around dining room tables,
but on some college campuses across Louisiana.
Gone are the days of open admissions to public universities in the state.
Effective for the summer 2012 term,
graduates o ...
Louisiana is the latest in a growing number of states seeking certain exemptions from the federal No Child Left Behind law.
The state should be free from some of the federal “red tape” that is hindering schools from achieving higher goals, State
Superintendent of Education John White h ...
Eventually, the violence in Welsh will subside. Perhaps those responsible for three unsolved murders and other deadly mischief
in that small Jefferson Davis Parish town will just fess up, move away or even run out of victims.
But for all the gunplay and terror
inflicted over the past year on this ...
Carnival season begins its final climatic crescendo this weekend, building to next week’s Fat Tuesday and the end of revelry
and advent of the Lenten season.
Over the next six days, there will
be the obligatory purple, green and gold attire, masks, beads, parades,
Cajun and Zydeco
music, ...