BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Jan. 14 -- Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill issued the following news on Jan. 13, 2025: Agents with Attorney General Liz Murrill's Louisiana Bureau of Investigation arrested a man from West Monroe on January 8, 2025. 61-year-old Peter Casico, of Del Ray Drive in West Monroe was arrested for violating: * LA RS 23:108; Misrepresentation concerning benefit payments (Felony) An investigation by the LBI - Baton Rouge Office into the conduct of Casico following a judg  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Jan. 14 -- Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill issued the following joint statement on Jan. 13, 2025, with Gov. Jeff Landry, R-Louisiana: * * * Joint Statement from Attorney General Liz Murrill and Governor Jeff Landry on partnership with City of New Orleans in effort to end NOPD Consent Decree "Now is the time to end NOPD's consent decree and return control of policing to the City--the brave men and women who serve in the NOPD deserve recognition for the hard work   more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Jan. 14 -- Gov. Jeff Landry, R-Louisiana, issued the following news on Jan. 13, 2025: Governor Jeff Landry announced that Louisiana is the first state in the nation to secure federal approval for its plan to deploy $1.355 billion in Broadband, Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) funding through the state's GUMBO 2.0 program. "Louisiana is pioneering the broadband revolution across America as we set the national standard for rural broadband investment," said Governor   more

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, Jan. 14 -- Gov. Jeff Landry, R-Louisiana, issued the following news on Jan. 13, 2025: Pursuant to Governor Landry's Jan. 1, 2025 executive order, the State of Louisiana will work to secure state-maintained interstates, bridges, and transportation lines in addition to ensuring that public streets, sidewalks, and other right of ways in Orleans Parish are in clean, accessible and safe condition. This action will also provide emergency funding to assist unhoused persons livi  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 (TNSres) -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release on Jan. 13, 2025: * * * Agency has awarded nearly $69 billion in Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act funding to cut greenhouse gas emissions, create good-paying jobs, lower energy costs, save families money, and help communities overburdened by pollution * * * Today, Jan. 13, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released its Investing in America Report, detailing th  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 -- The U.S. Department of Commerce National Telecommunications and Information Administration issued the following news release: * * * Louisiana Can Proceed Toward Network Construction That Will Connect All Remaining Homes and Small Businesses to Affordable High-Speed Internet * * * The Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has approved Louisiana's Final Proposal for the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) p  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 -- The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy issued the following news release on Jan. 13, 2025: Today, President Biden announced 336 teachers and mentors from around the nation as recipients of the Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching (PAEMST) and the Presidential Awards for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM). These awards honor the vital role that America's teachers and mentors play in sha  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 -- President Biden issued the following remarks on the December jobs report and the state of the economy: * * * THE PRESIDENT: Hey, everybody. Thanks for your patience. Been a long day. I'd like to talk about the transformational progress our economy has made over the last four years. This morning's job report shows the economy added more than 250,000 jobs in December, that the unemployment rate has dropped below 4.1 -- as low as 4.1 percent, and, all told in four years,   more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 -- The U.S. Department of Transportation's Surface Transportation Board issued the following statement on Jan. 13, 2025, by Chairman Robert Primus on the Sunset Limited investigation: * * * As we begin 2025, we do so having achieved marked progress on the Sunset Limited on-time performance (OTP) investigation, a critically important matter. An OTP investigation under Section 213 of the Passenger Rail Investment and Improvement Act of 2008 (PRIIA) is designed to determine w  more