Amelia News

Federal investigators are expected to arrive in Louisiana today to look into what caused a fatal helicopter crash.

On Sunday, January 4, 2009, at approximately 2:10 pm, a PHI, Inc. Sikorsky S76 medium transport helicopter was involved in a fatal accident approximately 10 miles south of Morgan City, LA.

Eight people have been killed in a helicopter crash near New Orleans in the US state of Louisiana.

Authorities are searching a southern Louisiana marsh by boat today for clues that might determine the cause of a helicopter crash that killed eight people bound for an offshore oil platform.

Eight people were killed and a ninth was reported critically injured after a helicopter bound for the offshore oil fields crashed Sunday afternoon in marshlands about 100 miles southwest of New Orleans.

A Patterson woman died early Sunday morning after she was hit by a drunk driver while standing on U.S. Route 90 in St.

Troop I is investigating a single vehicle fatal crash on US 90 near Amelia, within St.

More than 1.4 million Louisiana customers were without electricity Tuesday, including all of Morgan City, where Mark Broussard fixes distribution lines.

Roofs peeled off some houses. Trees fell onto others. Morgan City made it through Hurricane Gustav a little battered and beaten, but not devastated.

A Centerville man is in the Saint Mary Parish jail tonight, accused in a drive by shooting over the weekend in Amelia.

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