evacuees scattered across the country were anxious to return home after their city was largely spared by Hurricane Gustav, but Mayor Ray Nagin warned they may have to wait in shelters and motels a few days longer. The...
UPDATED: 7:40 pm EDT September 1, 2008 A levee in Plaquemines Parish -- which is just south of New Orleans -- is overtopped and residents in the area are being told to leave, reported WDSU-TV in New Orleans. A statement...
Though it isn’t related to corporate law, in light of the hurricane I thought that I would share my Katrina experience today, and also why I am proud to be a Cajun. I am from Lafayette, LA, 90 miles from New Orleans, and...
CLOSE ONE: Mary Scheps surveys the damage to her home in Lafayette, La., after Hurricane Gustav passed through on Monday. (Rick Gershon/Getty Images) NEW ORLEANS—Hurricane Gustav slammed ashore on the U.S. Gulf Coast just...
"I'm with FEMA," I overheard a man tell a woman at the bar at the Embassy Suites in Baton Rouge. That was a pick-up line, believe it or not, which says a lot about the difference between Gustav today and Katrina three...
LAFAYETTE, La. – What started as a routine assignment covering the Appalachian State-LSU football game in Baton Rouge has become more of an adventure. I'm staying in Lafayette, La., just west of Baton Rouge and about 90...
Lesley Claire Francis and Michael Joseph Rougeau will be united in marriage at a 6 p.m. ceremony on Saturday, September 20, 2008 at First United Methodist Church in Crowley, LA. The bride-to-be is the daughter of Mr. and...
LAFAYETTE, La., Aug. 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Stone Energy Corporation today announced that David H. Welch, the company's President and Chief Executive Officer, and Kenneth H. Beer, Senior Vice President and Chief...
Stone Energy Corporation and Bois d'Arc Energy, Inc. today reported that the Stone stockholders have voted to approve the issuance of additional shares of Stone common stock pursuant to the previously announced merger...
There is a lesson for Lafayette and other Louisiana communities in the volatile meeting held in Evangeline Parish this week. Tempers flared among parents in attendance as a plan for reassigning the 400 students of Ville...