FORT JOHNSON, Louisiana, Feb. 27 -- The U.S. Army Medicine issued the following news: By Jean Graves Sgt. 1st Class John Martinez and Staff Sgt. Andres Perez from Bayne-Jones Army Community Hospital conducted stop the bleed training and shared information about their military careers Feb. 23, during the 4-H Victory Challenge Camp in Anacoco, Louisiana. Ester Coco Boe, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, 4-H Central Regional Coordinator, said challenge camp is an annual event for t  more

DALLAS, Texas, Feb. 27 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Southwest Regional Information Office issued the following report on Feb. 26, 2024, entitled "Alternative Measures of Labor Underutilization in Louisiana - 2023": * * * In 2023, the broadest measure of labor underutilization, designated U-6 (which includes the unemployed, workers employed part-time for economic reasons, and those marginally attached to the labor force was 6.8 percent in Louisiana, wh  more

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, March 2 -- 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 released today the Draft Programmatic Environmental Assessment (DPEA #598) for the Reach A, Hurricane and Storm Damage Risk Reduction Project, Morganza to the Gulf of Mexico (MTG), Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana for public review and comment. The proposed plan evaluates alternatives to construct a hurricane and storm da  more

LAFAYETTE, Louisiana, March 2 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Louisiana issued the following news release: United States Attorney Brandon B. Brown announced that Gabriel Hawthorne, 41, of Abbeville, Louisiana, has been sentenced for conspiring to distribute fentanyl in the Abbeville area. United States District Judge Robert R. Summerhays sentenced Hawthorne to 120 months (10 years) in prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release. Hawthorne and two co-defenda  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, March 2 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Louisiana issued the following news release: United States Attorney Ronald C. Gathe, Jr., announced that U.S. District Judge Brian A. Jackson sentenced Dr. Melissa Rose Barrett, age 49, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Clive, Iowa, to 52 months in federal prison following her conviction for tax evasion. In addition to the term of imprisonment, the Court imposed a fine of $200,000 and ordered Barrett to s  more

MONROE, Louisiana, March 2 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Louisiana issued the following news release on Feb. 29, 2024: United States Attorney Brandon B. Brown announced that two North Louisiana men were sentenced today by United States District Judge Terry A. Doughty on drug and firearms charges. Nicholas D. Moore, 31, of Ruston, was sentenced to 132 months in prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release, for possession with intent to distribute methamphet  more

MOODY AFB, Georgia, March 2 -- The U.S. Air Force Moody Air Force Base (23rd Air Wing) issued the following news: By Mark "Radio" Godwin, 23rd Wing Public Affairs Feb. 27, 2024 marks the end of an era for A-10C Thunderbolt II serial number 78-0674. A-10C serial number 78-0674 was originally assigned to the 354th Tactical Fighter Wing at Myrtle Beach Air Force Base, South Carolina when it came off the assembly line. After Operation DESERT STORM (1991), Myrtle Beach AFB, SC along with England A  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued the following news release: NEW ORLEANS -- A Senegal national in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody passed away at the CHRISTUS St. Frances Cabrini Hospital in Alexandria, Louisiana, Feb. 23. An autopsy is pending to determine the official cause of death. Ousmane Ba, 33, a citizen of Senegal, entered the United States at or near Lukeville, Arizona, without inspection  more

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, Feb. 27 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana issued the following news release: On February 21, 2024, TROY MALBROUGH, age 48, a resident of Lutcher, La., was sentenced to 24-months imprisonment by U.S. District Judge Jane Triche Milazzo after previously pleading guilty to conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute a quantity of fentanyl, a quantity of heroin, and a quantity of methamphetamine, in violation of 21  more

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, March 2 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana issued the following news release: DATAYNA HOWARD, age 22, a resident of New Orleans, pleaded guilty on February 28, 2024, before U.S. District Judge Ivan L.R. Lemelle to two counts of possession with intent to distribute controlled substances--fentanyl, tapentadol, and marijuana--in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 841(a)(1), 841(b)(1)(C), and 841(b)(1)(D), and two counts  more