Construction is set to begin next month for a project to replace the 52-year-old LA 507 bridge between Womack and Castor in Red River Parish. The state has received $76 million from the feds to fund several projects. DOTD spokesperson Erin Buchanan says projects include replacing three closed bridges in Red River and Bienville Parishes.
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The $2.1 million project is expected to finish in Spring 2021.
The Louisiana Division of Administration had to spend 2.3 million dollars, mostly on personnel, responding to cyberattacks last year. Spokesperson Jacques Berry says these kinds of attacks require fast responses, and they don’t come cheap.
He says the 2.3 million dollar figure does not include local government spending on the responses.
Louisiana volunteers are helping in the aftermath of a deadly tornado outbreak in Nashville, Tennessee. United Cajun Navy founder Todd Terrell says his organizations is feeding about 500 people with basic hotdogs and hamburgers for now, but Cajun cuisine is on the way.
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At least 24 people are dead as the result of the early Tuesday morning tornado outbreak and many are still unaccounted for.
The Washington Parish Sheriff’s Office has arrested 21-year-old Ashlin Faith Lewis, who was found passed out inside a vehicle in a field south of Bogalusa with a crying infant in a car seat. Chief Deputy Mike Haley says EMS was called to the scene and the infant was transported to Our Lady of Angels Hospital
Haley says a deputy woke Lewis up and she failed a sobriety test.