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The Original Louisiana Brand Hot Sauce has been sold to a Georgia company. Terms of the sale were not disclosed. Rome, Georgia-based Southeastern Mills Inc. said Monday that it has acquired The Original Louisiana Brand Hot Sauce and all related assets from New Iberia-based Bruce Foods Corp. Other brands sold under the agreement were: Louisiana wing sauce, Red Rooster hot sauce, Louisiana Gold Pepper Sauce, Louisiana brand Tabasco Peppers in Vinegar and Bruce’s Tabasco Peppers in Vinegar.
LAKE CHARLES POLICE HAVE RELEASED THE IDENTITY OF A STABBING VICTIM AT THE SUFFOLK MANOR APARTMENTS FRIDAY NIGHT. 50-YEAR-OLD BARBARA GLOVER WESTCOTT WAS STABBED TO DEATH, AND HER BROTHER, 51-YEAR-OLD ERNEST W. GLOVER, WAS ARRESTED FOR HER MURDER. DEPUTY CHIEF MARK KRAUS SAYS GLOVER CALLED POLICE FRIDAY MORNING SAYING HE HAD SUFFOCATED A BABY, BUT NONE WAS FOUND. HE WAS TAKEN TO A HOSPITAL FOR EVALUATION AND RELEASED, AND THEN CALLED OFFICERS LATE FRIDAY NIGHT TO TELL THEM THAT HIS SISTER HAD DIED.
Fighting to keep its tax break program from being gutted, the film industry is circulating a rosier economic analysis of the program’s impact in Louisiana than a state-financed study. The study released Monday by the Motion Picture Association of America suggests Louisiana’s film tax breaks generated 33,500 jobs. That’s more than twice the number of jobs estimated in the state-financed analysis. Economist Loren Scott, who conducted the state’s study of the film tax break program, said that tourism figure “doesn’t pass the smell test” and isn’t based on economic principles.
UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL AND CLINICS IN LAFAYETTE IS MAKING RENOVATIONS TO THE ONCOLOGY DEPARTMENT, THAT ARE EXPECTED TO BE COMPLETED BY THE END OF THIS MONTH. THE RENOVATIONS INCLUDING DOUBLING THE AMOUNT OF BEDS AVAILABLE FOR PATIENTS NEEDING CHEMOTHERAPY OR OTHER INFUSION TREATMENTS. ONCOLOGY CLINICAL SUPERVISOR JERNIECE JACOB SAYS THE EXPANSION WILL ALLOW FAMILY MEMBERS TO STAY WITH THE PATIENT WHILE THEY RECEIVE THEIR TREATMENT. EACH MONTH, THE ONCOLOGY DEPARTMENT HAS BETWEEN 4 AND 500 PATIENTS WHO COME FOR INFUSION TREATMENTS.
POLICE IN ACADIA PARISH ARE LOOKING FOR A KILLER. JULIE DARCE HAS MORE.
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THE DRIVER OF A PICKUP TRUCK CRASHED INTO THE BEL GARDENS DORM ON THE MCNEESE STATE UNIVERSITY CAMPUS YESTERDAY JUST AFTER FIVE P-M. THERE WERE NO STUDENTS IN THE BUILDING BECAUSE OF SPRING BREAK. UNIVERSITY SPOKESWOMAN CANDACE TOWNSEND SAYS ITS BELIEVED THE DRIVER HAD A MEDICAL EVENT WHICH CAUSED THE ACCIDENT, AND HE WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL. SHE SAYS THE BUILDING SUFFERED MODERATE DAMAGE AND STUDENTS IN THAT PART OF THE DORM WILL BE TRANSFERRED TO ANOTHER DORM WHILE REPAIRS ARE MADE.
The state’s education superintendent says the number of high school graduates increased in 2014, the fourth straight year of improving numbers, and he warned against efforts to overhaul Louisiana’s testing and school accountability system. The state released graduation rates on Monday for 2014 and the numbers were positive. In 2014, 74.6 percent of students graduated on time, up 1.1 percent from a year before. Nationally, about 80 percent of students graduated in four years.
LAFAYETTE PARISH SAW A THREE-POINT-3 PERCENT DECLINE IN THEIR GRADUATION RATE LAST YEAR. THE 68-POINT-8 PERCENT GRADUATION RATE IS THE LOWEST FOR LAFAYETTE PARISH SINCE THE 2008-2009 SCHOOL YEAR. VERMILLION PARISH IS IN THE TOP TEN OF LOUISIANA PARISH’S WITH AN 89-POINT-4 PERCENT GRADUATION RATE. ACADIA, ST. MARY AND VERMILLION PARISH’S EACH SAW A MORE THAN THREE PERCENT INCREASE IN THE GRADUATION RATE LAST YEAR.
