A Rapides Parish woman is convicted in connection with a wildfire west of Glenmora in March of 2023, when wildfires were burning rampantly due to a historic drought. Agriculture Commissioner Mike Strain says the guilty verdict will cost Carrie Willis almost ten-thousand dollars as part of her sentence.
Former Louisiana basketball standout Bo Lamar died this week at the age of 74. Kevin Foote covers U-L Lafayette athletics for the Advocate and says Lamar was the catalyst for then-Southwestern Louisiana’s rise from an NAIA program to one of the top programs in the country at the Division One level.
The Lenten Season has arrived, and seafood is in demand. Joe Gallinaro on how the supply looks.
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For those of you in the federally declared disaster area following Winter Storm Fern, the Louisiana Department of Revenue is granting you automatic filing and payment extensions. Taxes that qualify for extensions are excise, sales, severance and withholding taxes, and extensions are also being given for the filing of W-2, L-3 and 1099 forms. Those deadlines, which were originally this Saturday, have now been extended to March 31st.