Crime
Sheriff’s Report: March 1 – 7
Arrests Patrick Maxon, 20, of 849 Apple St. in Norco, was arrested Feb. 24 and charged with simple burglary of an inhabited dwelling. Lamar Foster, 23, of 349 King St. in Hahnville, was arrested Feb. […]
Month: April 2018
Crime
Sheriff’s Report: March 8 – 14
Arrests Tyrus Hills, 23, of 1734 Paul Maillard Road in Boutte, was arrested March 4 and charged with resisting officer with force/violence and possession of marijuana. Austin Washington, 20, of 317 Kennedy St. in Ama, […]
Columns
God does not want us to spend our lives worrying about things
In St. Paul’s letter to the Corinthians, he says, “I want you to be free from anxieties” (I Cor. 7:32). Constant anxious concerns are characteristic of unredeemed existence. We often pray, “Deliver us Lord from every evil, and grant us peace in our day. In your mercy keep us free from sin and protect us from all anxiety.” […]
Allen Lottinger
Pope labels Syrian war ‘inhumane’
Pope Francis put his two cents in about the war in Syria calling it “inhumane” and asked for an end to it. […]
Columns
Regular session budget process in question
When Gov. John Bel Edwards issued his executive budget proposal to lawmakers in January, the roughly $1 billion in cuts it contained was a warning more than anything else. […]
Columns
The killing of innocent school children is an evil worse than abortion
A cartoon in the newspaper has an elderly gentleman speaking to a young student. He looks down on him and says, “When I was your age, I had to walk two miles uphill to school in the snow while holding a hot potato. . . .” The kid interrupts and says, “I had to hide in a closet while a mass shooter killed my teacher and friends.” […]
Allen Lottinger
Louisiana’s Gulf Coast Is getting worse
The deteriorating Gulf Coast of Southeast Louisiana is getting worse by the day according to recent reports from some of the major news outlets in the country. […]
Columns
Black Caucus leaving imprint on special session
In what House Speaker Taylor Barras, R-New Iberia, called a “new development,” members of the Black Caucus derailed Monday’s planned House votes when its membership demanded that a change in income tax brackets be included in any compromise that survives this ongoing special session. […]
Columns
Testimonies of 10 people who put their faith into action
St. James in his Letter says, “What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if you say you have faith but do not have works? Can faith save you? If a brother or sister is naked and lacks daily food, and one of you says to them, ‘Go in peace; keep warm and eat your fill’, and yet you do not supply their bodily needs, what is the good of that? So faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead” (James 2:14-17). […]