Year: 2017

Business

Destrehan Pharmacy urges customers to get flu shot

October 25, 2017 Ryan Arena

It’s flu season, and Destrehan Discount Pharmacy’s B.J. Burkenstock advises that when it comes to getting a flu shot, the sooner the better. The pharmacy, which has now settled in its new location at 12627 Airline Hwy. next to PJ’s Coffee in Destrehan, has been issuing flu shots for the past month, and Burkenstock said that when it comes to avoiding the flu, patients should take any preventive measure possible to avoid missing time at work — or simply feeling terrible. […]

Lifestyles

Hip replacement spurs volunteer to give back

October 25, 2017 Ryan Arena

After undergoing hip replacement surgery two years ago, Ron Pate laid in his bed and looked over at his wife, and his heart swelled with gratitude. “I knew if the Lord hadn’t blessed me with a wonderful wife, I’d be there by myself (for the entire rehabilitation process),” Pate said. “I got back to the health club, I started walking, trying to get back right and I told my wife, ‘You know what? I have to give back in some wa […]

Crime

Woman accused of hiring hitman to kill husband

October 25, 2017 Ryan Arena

Olivia Rome, a Houma woman who was arrested in May and charged with attempting to hire a hitman to kill her husband living in Paradis, still has to answer for that charge in Terrebonne Parish, where she’s being tried. But in the meantime, she has already pleaded guilty in St. Charles Parish to violation of protective orders. […]