Idaho Timber, based in Boise, will make a $3.5 million capital investment to refurbish and reopen the mill by the third quarter of 2013. Hiring is under way and will be completed when the mill comes online. LED estimates the Coushatta mill project will result in an additional 289 new indirect jobs, for a total of more than 370 new jobs.

Law enforcement officers from the Bossier Sheriff’s Office and Bossier City Police Department escort Special Olympiads around the track at Elm Grove Middle School in Bossier during the opening ceremonies for the local Louisiana Special Olympics competition April 26.

solve crimes on TV, noting, “it’s not typically like you see on the TV shows where they have a fingerprint, plug it into a computer database and out comes a perfect match. It takes more work than that.”.

The QuikClot Belt Trauma Kit is designed for law enforcement use so officers can stop traumatic bleeding quickly and help save lives. Its lifesaving component is gauze that contains a fast-acting blood-clotting agent designed to stop bleeding from traumatic injuries including gunshot wounds.

 The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) is now offering LADWF Tips apps for both Android and iPhone users to report outdoor related violations to Enforcement Division agents

More than 20,000 students throughout the state voted to choose the winners of the 2013 Louisiana Young Readers’ Choice Award and Louisiana Teen Readers’ Choice Award. Young Zeus by G. Brian Kar

 LAFITTE – Today, Governor Bobby Jindal announced that BP has agreed to fund approximately $340 million in restoration projects for Louisiana. This investment is part of the $1 billion that B

 WASHINGTON (AP) _ A sharply divided Supreme Court dismissed an appeal Monday from a Louisiana man who claimed that most of a seven-year delay between his arrest and murder trial was the resu