Baldwin News

At least 40 homes and businesses in Iberia and St. Mary parishes were flooded today, officials report.

Fourteen people from St. Mary and Iberia parishes, most of them state employees, were indicted in federal court last week in connection with alleged food stamp fraud following the 2005 and 2008 hurricanes.

Lydia Ann Marks and Jonathon Brock Soley exchanged wedding vows on Saturday, November 14, 2009, at Oak Alley in Vacherie, Louisiana.

Demequa R. Williams and Donald R. Lanceslin Jr., both of Katy, Texas, were united in marriage on October 10, 2009, at Brookhollow Baptist Church.

According to Sheriff David Naquin the body of a man found on October 17, 2009 in a pond west of Baldwin, La near the intersection of Penn Road and US 90 has been identified.

Authorities in St. Mary Parish are investigating a mysterious case of a man's body found floating in a pond.

Rosemarie Hoyt-Weber was a 10-year-old American living in Manilla, the Phillipines, when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor on Dec.