Port Allen News

Marvin Cobbs, Jr.,is accused of being involved in a fight at the Racetrac Store on LA 1 on May 26.

The Air Liquide Speciality Chemicals plant in Port Allen is expected to reopen and resume normal operation Wednesday, according to company spokesman Mike Rosen.

Former LSU football star Norman LeJeune is speaking out following his arrest over the weekend in Port Allen.

West Baton Rouge Parish officials have taken what they say is an important next step in building a toll road linking La.

People evacuated during a chemical fire in West Baton Rouge Parish last week want the company who owned the storage facility where it happened to pay up.

Sheriff's deputies in West Baton Rouge arrested a former LSU and NFL player after his neighbors said he made threatening remarks after a relative was shot.

According to the East Baton Rouge Sheriff's Department, two people were killed in a shooting that happened Friday afternoon.

A West Baton Rouge Parish grand jury charged a Port Allen man Thursday with second-degree murder in the May 13 fatal shooting of an 18-year-old Brusly High School student.

Residents living within a one-mile radius of the Air Liquide Speciality Chemicals plant were given the OK to return home, and a portion of U.S. 190 reopened Wednesday morning following Monday's explosion and chemical fire at the Port Allen site.

Hundreds of people are glad to be home in West Baton Rouge Parish now that La. 190 is open and the evacuation order lifted after a fire and explosion at a storage facility Monday.

UL co-head coach Michael Lotief knows what his UL Ragin' Cajuns are in for when they travel to meet... PORT ALLEN, La.

Advocate staff photo by RICHARD ALAN HANNON State Rep. Roy Burrell, D-Shreveport, right, pushed legislation Tuesday that would have given prosecutors and juries the flexibility to look at cases and consider pursuit in determining whether someone was an aggressor.

School officials for Hico Elementary School in Dubach, Louisiana in Lincoln Parish closed Tuesday because of a ruptured water line.

The Huntsville Police Department announced the termination of two officers. One of the officers was involved in an incident during an arrest in October of 2011.

One person was injured, families are being evacuated and US 190 is shut down at Bueche Road between Port Allen and Erwinville due to a chemical fire.

The following is a Press Release from the Lafayette Police Department: Detectives with the Lafayette Police Department continue to search for clues which would assist them in locating Michaela "Mickey" Shunick.

What started as a small fire in the fireplace quickly spread throughout the entire Pi Kappa Alpha house near the Louisiana Tech campus.

Sheriff Chuck Mayfield says gang activity caused the unrest at the privately-run "Adams County Correctional Center" in Natchez.

There is new trouble for the former International Monetary Fund Chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn. He could soon face new charges in the alleged gang rape of a Belgian prostitute during a party at He was indicted by a French court for his role in what has been termed the "Carlton Affaire," an alleged prostitution ring in North France.

Advocate staff photo by Arthur D. Lauck -- Fire and explosion scene at Air Liquide on U.S. Highway 190 West near Port Allen on Monday.