Livonia News

Mr. and Mrs. Mark Major of Livonia are proud to announce the engagement and upcoming marriage of their daughter, Ashley Laine Major to Jared Clifton Ruffin, son of Mr.

On the morning of 8/26/09, Investigators with the Opelousas Special Operations Division was called out to 125 N. Court St.

A 2007 law authorizing the state to pay $250,000 to the survivors of Louisiana National Guard troops killed in Iraq or Afghanistan should be made retroactive to include all Guard troops from the state killed in combat since being called to duty after the 2001 terrorist attacks, a special Senate committee said Friday.

On the eve of Louisiana's inaugural sales-tax holiday for guns and ammunition, which starts today and runs through Sunday, some unlikely critics emerged to assail the program.

A Pointe Coupee Parish grand jury indicted a 36-year-old Gonzales man for second-degree murder Wednesday in the July slaying of his girlfriend.

BATON ROUGE - If you didn't buy a gun or hunting supplies during last month's state sales tax-free weekend, you'll have another chance this weekend and pay no state or local tax as Louisiana's inaugural Second Amendment weekend tax-free holiday rolls around Friday through Sunday.

Survivors of five members of the Louisiana National Guard killed in the line of duty will each receive a special $250,000 bonus from the state, the first to receive the awards called for in a law enacted in 2007.

Some fire districts in Pointe Coupee Parish want you to support a tax renewal that actually saves you money.

BATON ROUGE - Unless you have to get a license to drive it or can eat it on the spot, just about anything you buy Friday and Saturday will be free from the 4 percent state sales tax.

If you find yourself in a small Louisiana town, and see a helicopter coming in to land, you'd better run the other way.

Some fire districts in Pointe Coupee Parish want you to support a tax renewal that actually saves you money.

On the latest leg of his 64-parish "Louisiana Working Tour," Gov. Bobby Jindal on Tuesday presented Pointe Coupee Parish President Melanie Bueche with an $18.1 million check.

Gov. Bobby Jindal on Thursday approved $4.9 million in tax breaks for ports, sportsmen and other groups for this year, though that figure will balloon to an estimated $30.3 million in 2010 when additional tax breaks take effect.

A special Senate committee Wednesday called on the heads of the state National Guard and the Department of Veterans Affairs to produce data indicating how often -- or seldom -- a special 2007 law granting enhanced benefits for Louisiana Guard troops has been used.

West Bank citizens hit the jackpot Friday as Gov. Bobby Jindal decided that a newly discovered $22.6 million cache ought to be spent on projects in their area instead of for a rice elevator in Lake Charles that he had previously recommended.

A heated fight in the Legislature to claim a newly discovered $22.6 million pot of money has pitted West Bank and other New Orleans area lawmakers against their southwest Louisiana colleagues and the Jindal administration.

Motorcycle helmets will not be optional anytime soon in Louisiana, after a Senate committee killed a bill that would have repealed the state's helmet law, despite the governor's support to do away with it.

The state's $5.36 billion capital construction budget remained in limbo today when the Senate Finance Committee delayed its approval, but did restore about $7.25 million that was stripped from it earlier in the week.

Two men died Tuesday night after an all terrain vehicle they were riding on was struck from behind by a sport utility vehicle, Louisiana State Police said today.

A Senate committee today shot down a House-passed bill that would have allowed for new punishment of parents with repeat juvenile offenders in Louisiana.