The patriarch of Duck Dynasty Phil Robertson died over the weekend at the age of 79. Greg Hilburn of the USA Today Network says the family from West Monroe announced last December that Robertson had Alzheimer’s disease…
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Robertson took a small duck calling business and turned it into a multi-million dollar company with the help of a popular reality television show that ran from 2012 to 2017.
For the second time this year in Louisiana, thousands of customers were left in the dark because of a forced power outage. The latest incident happened in the New Orleans area on Sunday and Public Service Commissioner Davante Lewis says they had a similar situation in northwest Louisiana…
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In both cases, it was the company that supplies power to the utility companies that ordered the shut offs.
There are a little over two weeks left in the legislative session, and several bills aimed at bringing down Louisiana’s extremely high auto insurance rates are nearing final legislative passage. Senate Insurance Chairman Kirk Talbot led the effort on the Senate floor to pass a bill that would give the insurance commissioner more authority to reject rate increases. Talbot says an amendment was added to the legislation that would require insurance companies to make their rate filing requests public…
Cut 4 (13) “…propriety or not.”
A tort reform bill that needs House concurrence to Senate changes before reaching the governor’s desk would say if a driver is found to be 51-percent or more at fault for a wreck, they are not entitled to any damages in a civil lawsuit. Democrats like Alexandria Senator Jay Luneau oppose the bill…