Sulphur News

Tim Whitmer, Jefferson Parish's No. 2 executive who is under federal investigation for his insurance agency's dealings with public entities, lined up a revenue-sharing deal with a video poker firm just three months before the parish granted a zoning change and a special permit allowing the company to build a truck stop casino near Westwego, ...

State offices closed early in 13 Louisiana parishes Friday afternoon as the state prepared for an evening blast of wintry weather that was expected to include snow a ' rare anytime in Louisiana but especially unusual in early December.

Homeless shelters in Shreveport-Bossier City were near capacity Friday night with the prospect of near-record lows in the 20s overnight while other parts of Louisiana in which snow is rare had forecasts for as much as three inches of the wintry precipitation.

LAKE CHARLES - Bond has been set at $2,000 for a 27-year-old Vinton woman accused of prescription fraud.

Here is a list of the Christmas parades that are scheduled for this year in Southwest Louisiana: Friday, December 4 5:00 p.m. - City of Vinton Saturday, December 5 11:00 a.m. - City of DeQuincy 2:00 p.m. - City of Lake Charles 2:00 p.m. - Starks 3:00 p.m. - City of Sulphur Saturday, December 12 2:00 p.m. - City of Iowa 2:00 p.m. - Moss Bluff 4:00 ...

By Sarah Eckersley SULPHUR, Louisiana, November 23. AT the Louisiana Division 1 High School State Championships, Northshore and Jesuit walked away with state titles.

By Sarah Eckersley SULPHUR, Louisiana, November 24. AT the Louisiana Division 4 High School State Championships, LSU Laboratory and St.

By Sarah Eckersley SULPHUR, Louisiana, November 24. EDWARD Douglas White Catholic and Holy Cross took first at the Louisiana Division 3 High School State Championships.

By Sarah Eckersley SULPHUR, Louisiana, November 23. VANDEBILT Catholic and Lutcher won state titles at the Louisiana Division 2 High School State Championships.

Thus far, in the battle of humans versus machinesa 'a.k.a., drivers versus traffic cameras doling out speeding ticketsa 'it's the machines that are kicking our fleshy tushes.

Members of a large scale illegal alien transportation operation based in Sulphur, La., were sentenced in federal court yesterday, United States Attorney Donald W. Washington announced.

Max Air Helicopters, a Sulphur, Louisiana based helicopter service company, will provide helicopter rides to festival attendees at the 37th annual Rayne Frog Festival for a fee of $30 per person based on three passenger capacity.

PORT SULPHUR, La. - State officials will inspect the site of an oil spill in a marsh near Port Sulphur High School.

Louisiana State Police press release: One person was killed in a Sunday afternoon crash when the vehicle she was a passenger in ran off Interstate 10 west of Sulphur and flipped several times.

Sulphur, Louisiana police said a Vidor woman led them on a high speed chase early Tuesday, October 13 that ended with a crash.

Best Selling Author, Terry A. O'Neal, whose poetry has been published in numerous magazines, journals and newspapers, will visit Sulphur High and Barbe High School students on Friday, October 23, 2009, in honor of Neighborhood: Teen Read Week.

Two local lawmakers will host an informational meeting on the status of the Gifted and Talented program in Louisiana public education on Monday in Lafayette.

Third Louisiana Resource LLC, a subsidiary of Baton Rouge-based Resource Environmental Solutions LLC, has won the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' approval for Phase I of its mitigation bank in Cameron Parish.

Petty Officer 3rd Class Jimmy D. Guidry, a hospital corpsman formerly with 3rd Medical Battalion, Combat Logistics Regiment 35, 3rd Marine Logistics Group, III Marine Expeditionary Force, treats a local injured child during a 2007-2008 deployment to Afghanistan.

For a parish notoriously known for bad roads, Saint Landry Parish officials are excited about a road mixture that could help repair some surfaces that desperately need it.