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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 ...
By Andrew Perzo / American Press
I’ll be traveling by plane within the U.S., leaving June 2 of this year. Will I be able to still use my Louisiana driver’s license as ID? I know there was an extension, but I don’t know for how long. The deferment, announced in December, took effect in mid-January and is suppose ...
By Eric Cormier / American Press
I want to send a “shout-out” to a bartender who is making her chops at the Cigar Club every week. Ashley Mageau, 28, admits to being “geeky” when the subject of spirits and beers are discussed. After four years of real time experience, coupled with lots of reading about mix ...
By Andrew Perzo / American Press
Is it true that next year Medicare will no longer pay for chemo treatments for cancer patients? Is it also true that, beginning next year, Medicare will pay for one cataract surgery in a person’s lifetime? No, said Bob Moos, a spokesman for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. &ld ...
By Andrew Perzo / American Press
My beautiful 18-year-old granddaughter is now in rehab after using synthetic marijuana. My question is, why is it so easy for these teens to get this? It is available in convenience stores in our area and smoke shops. These teens think it is harmless since it is so readily available. It can cause ...
By Scooter Hobbs / American Press
Bad weather can make baseball people do strange things. This would have been the 1991 Southeastern Conference baseball tournament, played in Baton Rouge. After a couple of soggy days, persistent nasty weather was playing a lot more havoc at the old Alex Box Stadium than the SEC teams were managin ...
By Scooter Hobbs / American Press
Well, thank you very much, Bob Stoops. Things were getting a little slow in the college football offseason. Spring football is over, recruiting season is long gone and I have it on pretty good authority that the NFL draft did eventually end. You can only rearrange the deck chairs on those way-too ...
By Jim Gazzolo / American Press
College football makes strange bed fellows. Last week the big news was ESPN and the SEC have joined forces and create yet another sports network. The duo will create the SEC Network, which is set to debut in August of 2014. Smart move by both parts. This could propel the SEC into an even bigge ...
About 3,000 people joined together at the Lake Charles Civic Center on Friday and Saturday for the area’s 20th annual Relay
for Life to raise m ...
A group of energy sector executives expect natural gas prices to remain around $4 per million British thermal units through
the rest of 2013. That i ...
Although he is in prison, former Leesville Police Chief Bobby Hickman’s pay continues to accrue, his lawyer said.
Leesville fired Hickman in Ja ...Watch out for flying mortarboards and tassels.
McNeese Sate University’s spring commencement ceremony took place at 10 o’clock in the mo ...
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 bookke ...
BATON ROUGE — Not quite ready for prime time.
But pretty close. LSU emptied its bench at Ole Miss in the regular-season finale Saturday, ...
The back door is still a door.
McNeese State’s season will continue despite Saturday’s 6-4 loss to Southeastern Louisiana thanks to riva ...
There is something about a frying pad and fire that has the Swashbucklers hoping not to get burned.
After spending the last three weekends on long ro ...
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 ...
The city of Lake Charles will mark the National Park Trust’s third annual National Kids to Parks Day 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday,
May 18, at Millen ...
Larry the Cable Guy will bring his comedy routine to Lake Charles for two shows at 7 and 10 p.m. Friday, May 24, at the L’Auberge
Event Center. ...
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