NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, March 17 -- 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, recently awarded a contract for constructing the second levee reach on the West Shore Lake Pontchartrain (WSLP) Hurricane and Storm Damage Risk Reduction project. This contract will construct approximately 1.7 miles of the 17.5-mile-long levee system that will provide 100-year level risk reduction to the area extendi  more

FORT POLK, Louisiana, March 17 -- The U.S. Army Medicine issued the following news: Soldiers and civilian staff at Bayne-Jones Army Community Hospital prepared for real world emergencies with a mass casualty exercise March 9 and 10 at the Joint Readiness Training Center and Fort Polk, Louisiana. Capt. Kelvin Cook, chief of operations for BJACH said exercises and training help organizations prepare for challenges. "The purpose of exercises like these are to get repetitions in preparation for m  more

WASHINGTON, March 17 (TNSrpt) -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service issued the following Economic Information Bulletin (No. EIB-251): This report identifies community-level factors affecting the recruitment and retention of rural healthcare professionals. The authors used key informant interviews and a survey of healthcare professionals in 150 small rural towns (with a population between 2,500 and 20,000) in 9 States (Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mis  more

ST. PAUL, Minnesota, March 17 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued the following news release: Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) St. Paul removed an unlawfully present noncitizen foreign fugitive wanted in Guatemala for homicide on March 15. On March 8, a flight coordinated by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Air Operations Unit flew Erick Gomez-Gomez, 33, of Guatemala, from Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport to  more

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, March 18 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana, Duane A. Evans, issued the following news release on March 17, 2023: NICHOLAS WEBER, age 29, a resident of New Orleans, Louisiana, was sentenced on March 16, 2023, to 120 months imprisonment, 4 years of supervised release, and a $300 mandatory special assessment fee by U.S. District Judge Susie Morgan, after pleading guilty to possession with intent to distribute fentanyl, possessing firearms in further  more

WASHINGTON, March 14 -- The Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued the following event notification (No. 56403) involving Waterford Nuclear Plant, Louisiana: * * * Facility: Waterford Region: 4 State: LA Unit: [3] [] [] RX Type: [3] CE NRC Notified By: Kevin Hale HQ OPS Officer: Ernest West Notification Date: 03/10/2023 Notification Time: 07:25 [ET] Event Date: 03/10/2023 Event Time: 02:37 [CST] Last Update Date: 03/10/2023 Emergency Class: Non Emergency 10 CFR Section: 50.72(b)(2)  more