Pierre Part News

State Rep. Elton Aubert, D-Vacherie, left, and Karen St. Germain, D-Pierre Part, participate with Gov.

Legislation aimed at ramping up train and railroad crossing safety failed by a wide margin Monday in the House, the Baton Rouge Advocate reports.

Sheriff Mike Waguespack reports the arrest of 14 Assumption Parish teenagers in connection with various burglaries and vandalisms in the Labadieville, Paincourtville, and Pierre Part areas.

The Natchitoches Parish School Board today whittled its list of applicants for school superintendent from 14 to five and the public will have the opportunity Thursday to visit with those still in the running to replace retiring Superintendent Elwanda Murphy.

The manager of a Family Dollar store in Paincourtville was treated at a hospital for injuries after reportedly being beaten and dragged alongside a car while trying to stop an accused robber.

All occupants of vehicles will have to use seat belts, not just the driver and front-seat passengers, if a bill given 33-1 approval Tuesday by the Senate becomes law.

After turning back an attempt to scuttle the deal to keep the Saints in New Orleans, the House approved a $27 billion budget Thursday that eliminates more than 3,600 state jobs and cuts spending on health care, higher education and a host of other government programs.

If the budget is the biggest story of the 2009 session, then this morning's meeting of the House Ways & Means Committee could go a long way toward answering a crucial question: Will lawmakers, already grumbling about deep cuts to health-care and education, be willing to raise taxes as a way to avoid some of the reductions proposed by Gov.

Measures that would prohibit the sale of toy-like novelty cigarette lighters and require 10-year lithium-battery-powered smoke detectors when homes or rented or sold eased out of the House Commerce Committee today.

A nightclub dancer and her boyfriend were arrested and booked with desertion of her two small children, Assumption Parish Sheriff Mike Waguespack said Wednesday.

The French program at Nicholls State University is promoting the resurgence of French language education in Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes with a program scheduled today.

Six people were injured, including two critically, in two separate crashes in Assumption Parish on Friday.

Houma- One passenger is dead and one driver is critically injured after a three vehicle crash that occurred on LA 311 just north of Savanne Road this morning in Houma, LA.

Residents trying to flee from a hurricane or preparing to ride one out should not be charged state sales taxes for the supplies they buy when a storm is nearing, according to a bill filed this week for the ...

A head-on collision at 1:00 a.m. this morning on LA 70 in Ascension Parish claimed the life of a 20-year-old Pierre Part woman.

A major sting operation in the small town of Pierre Part has landed eight people behind bars.

State police say a woman died Christmas Eve night after falling from a pickup truck.

Pierre Part- A woman died after falling from a pick-up truck in Pierre Part, LA on the night of Christmas Eve making it the fifth fatality crash in December.

State police say a 32-year-old woman from Pierre Part died Christmas Eve when she fell out of the front seat of a pickup truck and the rear wheels hit her.

The Assumption Parish Police Jury heard from its economic development director Wednesday about a new online program that can list vacant, available sites in the parish to assist potential developers.