NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, Jan. 27 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-New Orleans District issued the following news release: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District, received an exemption for additional time and funding for the Amite River and Tributaries - Comprehensive Study East of the Mississippi River, Louisiana. To ensure the Amite River and Tributaries' Tentatively Selected Plan (TSP) was economically justified, technically feasible, and environmentally acceptable  more

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, Jan. 24 -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-New Orleans District issued the following news release: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District, announced today that a Record of Decision was signed by Maj. Gen. Diana Holland, Mississippi Valley Division Commanding General, on the West Shore Lake Pontchartrain (WSLP) mitigation feature. The Record of Decision found that the Maurepas Diversion meets the swamp mitigation need for the WSLP Project. The executed R  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics issued the following document from the Economics Daily: Louisiana had the highest job openings rate in November 2022, at 8.5 percent, while New York had the lowest, at 4.5 percent. Twenty-seven states had a openings rate greater than the national rate of 6.4 percent. In November 2022, separations rates were above 5.0 percent in five states: Alaska (7.1 percent), Wyoming (5.6 percent), Montana (5.3 percent), and Lo  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security issued the following news release on Jan. 27, 2023: On January 25, the Department of Homeland Security's Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships (CP3), in collaboration with EdVenture Partners and the McCain Institute for International Leadership, hosted the finalists of Invent2Prevent, a program that empowers university and high school students to develop innovative projects that help prevent targeted violence and terroris  more

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, Jan. 26 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued the following news release: Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) New Orleans removed 31-year-old Jose Refugio Mendez Gomez, an unlawfully present Mexican national wanted for homicide in his home country of Mexico. Officials removed Mendez Gomez via ground transportation with assistance from ERO Harlingen, turning him over to Mexican authorities at the port of entry in Br  more

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, Jan. 23 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued the following news release: Officers with the Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Philadelphia field office removed an unlawfully present foreign fugitive wanted in Mexico for homicide Jan. 11. ICE's Air Operations Unit coordinated a flight for Juan Pablo Gonzalez Ferrer, 48, from the Harrisburg International Airport to Louisiana's Alexandria International Airport J  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on Jan. 25, 2023: The Justice Department announced today that it has concluded there is reasonable cause to believe that the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections (LDOC) routinely confines people in its custody past the dates when they are legally entitled to be released from custody, in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. Specifically, the department concluded that: 1) LDOC denies indiv  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release: The United States filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana seeking to bar a Louisiana tax return preparer and her business from assisting in the preparing of federal income tax returns for others. The complaint alleges that Whylithia R. Robinson prepared and filed 2,629 federal income tax returns for customers though AAA Tax Service from 2019-2021. According to the   more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release: Chance Seneca, 21, of Lafayette, Louisiana, was sentenced today to 45 years in federal prison for kidnapping and attempting to murder a gay man as part of a months-long scheme to kidnap and murder gay men. The court rested its sentence on many factors, including its determination that the defendant intentionally targeted the victim and other gay men because of their gender and sexual orientation. "The fa  more

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, Jan. 26 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana issued the following news release: KEVIN HART, age 31, of Marrero, Louisiana, was sentenced to a $100.00 fine and a $10.00 mandatory special assessment fee by United States District Court Judge Wendy B. Vitter. According to court documents, HART was employed by the United States Postal Service as a City Carrier Associate and was assigned to work at Johnson Street Post Office, Metairie, Loui  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Jan. 26 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Louisiana, Ronald C. Gathe Jr., posted the following news release on Jan. 25, 2023: The Justice Department announced today that it has concluded there is reasonable cause to believe that the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections (LDOC) routinely confines people in its custody past the dates when they are legally entitled to be released from custody, in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. Specifi  more

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, Jan. 26 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana, Duane A. Evans, posted the following news release on Jan. 25, 2023: The Justice Department announced today that it has concluded there is reasonable cause to believe that the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections (LDOC) routinely confines people in its custody past the dates when they are legally entitled to be released from custody, in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. Specificall  more

LAFAYETTE, Louisiana, Jan. 27 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Louisiana, Brandon B. Brown, posted the following news release on Jan. 25. 2023: The Justice Department announced today that it has concluded there is reasonable cause to believe that the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections (LDOC) routinely confines people in its custody past the dates when they are legally entitled to be released from custody, in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. Specifically  more

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, Jan. 24 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana, Duane A. Evans, issued the following news release: United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that LUCINDA THOMAS ("THOMAS"), age 67; MARY WADE ("WADE"), age 58; and JUDY WILLIAMS ("WILLIAMS"), age 62, all of Houma, Louisiana, were sentenced on January 19, 2023 for Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 371, arising out of staged automobile accidents w  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 (TNSres) -- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Office of Habitat Conservation issued the following news: * * * NOAA works through the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection, and Restoration Act Program to support resilient communities and sustainable fisheries in Louisiana. * * * Two NOAA-sponsored habitat restoration projects in Louisiana have been approved for more than $64 million in funding. The projects are funded by the Coastal Wetlands Planning, P  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 (TNSrpt) -- The National Transportation Safety Board issued the following news release: A company not adhering to their 12-hour work limit led to an offshore supply vessel striking an oil and gas production platform, the National Transportation Safety Board said Thursday. The offshore supply vessel Elliot Cheramie was on its normal route between Port Fourchon, Louisiana and the oil and gas production platform VR-397A in the Gulf of Mexico on June 25, 2021, with a crew of f  more

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, Jan. 26 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following remarks on Jan. 25, 2023, by Acting Director Allison Randall of the Office on Violence Against Women at the 2023 Strengthening Sovereign Responses to Sex Trafficking in Indian Country and Alaska: * * * I am delighted to be with you all in New Orleans, the traditional and sacred homeland of the Chitimacha, Choctaw, Houma, and Biloxi peoples. I believe it is crucial that we acknowledge the original, rightful   more

LAFAYETTE, Louisiana, Jan. 24 -- The U.S. Postal Service issued the following news release on Jan. 23, 2023: The U.S. Postal Service today celebrated the life of author Ernest J. Gaines, best known for the novels "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman" and "A Lesson Before Dying," as the 46th honoree in the Black Heritage Stamp series in a first-day-of-issue ceremony at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. "Dr. Gaines brought worldwide attention to generations of men and women who asser  more