Port Allen News

A 57-year-old man died after his pickup was hit by another truck and he was thrown from it Sunday evening.

Baton Rouge police say the driver of a second car believed to have struck one or both of the pedestrians in a fatal crash last week has come forward.

Women wEfof Love Conference: 10 a.m., Faith, Hope and Love Worship Center, 4055 Choctaw Drive, with Prophetess Robbin Hardy as hostess and many guest speakers.

Criterion Catalysts & Technologies plans to shift production from a California chemical plant to a facility it is currently expanding in Port Allen, a move that will add up to 35 new jobs.

Southern University marching band hazing victim Marcus Heath of Georgia and his mother, Marilyn, are suing the college for liability in last year's off-campus initiation event.

PORT ALLEN, La. - Criterion Catalysts, which forecasts hiring 90 people at its Port Allen facility, will shift production from a California facility when the Louisiana site begins full production next year.

Port Allen standout L.J. Parker commited to Tulane today. Check back in a few minutes for more details.

Alyica Owens died when the car her friend was driving ran off the road and hit a tree.

An unrestrained Port Allen man was killed last night in a single-vehicle crash on LA 986 east of LA 415 in West Baton Rouge Parish.

Flag ceremonies by the Alexander Sterling Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, in East Feliciana Parish cemeteries: 9 a.m., Dawson Cemetery; and 3 p.m., Town of Jackson Cemetery, Clinton Masonic Cemetery and Redwood Cemetery, La.

A Louisiana family is humming a different tune this evening. It's the droning of the hundreds of thousands of honeybees that have invaded this Port Allen home.

High school marching bands from Louisiana, Texas and Arkansas are scheduled to compete in the 2009 Northwestern State University Marching Contest Saturday at Turpin Stadium on the NSU campus in Natchitoches.

Proceeds go to St. Mary Outreach United Way. $20. Anti-Poverty Workshop: 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Roman Catholic Diocese of Lafayette, 1408 Carmel Ave., Lafayette, sponsored by the Office of Justice and Peace.

Ashley Brooke Watford and Blake Anthony Altazan were united in marriage on Saturday, October 17, 2009 during a candlelight ceremony at the First United Methodist Church in Greenville, Alabama.

The Port of Greater Baton Rouge will solicit proposals from companies interested in operating the grain elevator at the port's main Port Allen facility.

A Port Allen man has been arrested after allegedly altering a check from an elderly couple.

Death-row inmate Derrick Todd Lee was in 18th Judicial District Court on Tuesday seeking a new trial in the January 2002 beating and stabbing death of an Addis woman.

More than 1,600 job seekers have already signed up for e-mail updates on a Web site created for V-Vehicle Co.

Community volunteers, students from LSUa s Pi Sigma Epsilon Beta Xi Chapter and students from the LSU Flores MBA Program partnered with students from Habitat for Humanity at LSU to build a house in Port Allen on Saturday morning.

A $2 million-plus overlay project on Esler Field Road is among the projects for which bids were opened recently by the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development.