Geismar News

Dutchtown defensive lineman David Elias has seen a number of college coaches come by campus this spring.

Four workers were treated and released from a local hospital May 9 after a chemical release at Westlake Chemical Corp.'s PVC and feedstocks plant in Geismar, La.

A power failure at Westlake Chemical's Geismar complex triggered a chemical release Wednesday afternoon that sent three contract workers to St.

Baton Rouge metro area manufacturers paid workers an average of $68,522 per year in 2010, good for the No.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation will be holding a news conference at 2 p.m. regarding the search for Adam Mayes and Alexandria Bain, 12, and her sister Kyliyah, 8. WMCTV.COM will stream President Barack Obama is facing mounting pressure to express support for same-sex marriage after a setback for gay-rights advocates in North Carolina.

Ascension Parish sheriff's detectives searched Wednesday for a man impersonating a police officer who pulled a Geismar woman's car over, stole her purse and fled.

Advocate staff photo by ADAM LAU Tyren Bailey, 11, grins after ripping his first drive at the Pelican Point Lakes golf course in Gonzales on April 25.

Heavy squalls with wind and rain Wednesday afternoon created street and house flooding, downed trees, blocked some roads and possibly shot lightning bolts on two homes, Ascension Parish sheriff's deputies said.