Around 40,000 pounds of candles were scattered across Interstate 10 westbound Sunday morning after a crash involving multiple 18-wheelers, Louisiana State Police said.
The tools of this summer job were positioned all around recent Ascension Parish high school graduates Kylon Hardin and Gabriel Keller as they worked at a library table: rags, rubbing alcohol, …
In discussion for months, new permanent pay raises for Ascension Parish public school employees will begin to roll out in late July, school officials said.
Ten years ago, the then-owners of a bauxite refinery near Gramercy told the state that their operation had been unwittingly emitting the toxic heavy metal mercury into the air — potentially fo…