The swollen Amite River ran through much of northeast Ascension Parish on Sunday afternoon, leaving only a few islands of dry land which may not last. The flood that devastated Louisiana in the past week isn’t over for Ascension residents — it hasn’t even reached its peak.
Right now, rescue crews are on the scene of a civilian helicopter crash in Iberia Parish. According to Sheriff Louis Ackal, the crash happened in the Atchafalaya Basin in the Iberia Parish panhandle. Ackal says at least one person is in the water.
Ford is recalling about 830,000 vehicles in the U.S. and Mexico because parts in the side door latches can break and the doors can open while the vehicles are moving.
Over the past two years, General Motors has recalled millions of vehicles over airbag issues, many related to Takata safety devices deploying too forcefully. Now, the company is recalling nearly 290,000 Chevrolet sedans for a different reason: the airbags might not deploy in a crash.
After a long day, it can be nice to come home and grab a frozen meal from the fridge for a quick and easy dinner. If you’ve been stocking up on P.F. Chang’s frozen meals, you might want to double-check they aren’t included in a recently expanded recall of more than 195,000 pounds of frozen dinner product that may contain metal fragments.
Four states from the American South take the top four spots in State Farm’s list of states in the U.S. ranked according to the number of lightning-related claims they made in 2015.
Nearly two months after CRF Frozen Foods set off a massive recall of vegetables thought to be contaminated with listeria and linked to at least two deaths and eight illnesses, a second frozen vegetable supplier — National Frozen Food Corp. — has initiated a separate recall over listeria concerns, and many of the recalled products are from the nation’s largest retailers.
In a study that surfaced Monday, Baton Rouge ranks as the second most dangerous city in the nation for drivers. Louisiana’s capital ranks behind only Detroit in a study of the 200 most populous cities done by NerdWallet, a financial education center.
A Calumet employee died Friday after being injured at the company’s Shreveport refinery, according to a statement released Friday afternoon. The employee’s name has not been released to the public.
Amid a massive frozen foods recall involving millions of packages of fruits and vegetables that were shipped to all 50 U.S. states, Canada and Mexico, authorities who want to stem the listeria-linked illnesses and deaths worry it’ll be difficult to get consumers to dig through their freezers and check for products they may have bought as far back as 2014.
Nine of ten businesses experienced at least one hacking incident in the past year, according to a survey of business risk managers released today by The Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company (HSB), part of Munich Re.
Eight lawsuits have been filed by people seeking damages from an industrial services company that spilled about 12,500 gallons of crude oil last March along and into the Bayou Teche.
A Jefferson Parish grand jury indicted 13 men accused of running a large-scale auto theft ring with the help of an unnamed former elected official. The group operated for seven years, targeting mostly the East and West Banks of Jefferson Parish and was responsible for about 32 percent of the vehicle thefts in the parish, according to court records.
CRF Frozen Foods is expanding a recall of frozen organic and traditional fruits and vegetables over possible listeria contamination. The recall includes some 358 products sold under 42 brand names, including items like kale, potatoes, blueberries, strawberries, broccoli and various vegetable medleys, among others.
