According to the Louisiana Highway Safety Commission (LHSC), pickup truck drivers and their passengers are among the least likely American motorists to regularly wear their safety belts.
The Bayou Teche Wooden Boat Show has been called off due to the weather.
Organizers of the sixth annual event say the threat of thunderstorms this weekend and the fact that participants were unable to attend led to the decision.
The show may be rescheduled. More information will be forthcoming if another date is set.
The TECHE Project has taken its highly successful Bayou Teche Trash Bash & Boogie downstream a little to New Iberia’s beautiful City Park.
A Breaux Bridge man is one of four arrested in a crackdown on Medicaid fraud, Attorney General Buddy Caldwell announced recently.
The four were arrested last week and charged with defrauding the state’s Medicaid program by causing the submission of false claims for payment of services.
Bayou Teche has been added to the National Water Trails System, a first for Louisiana. Designation as a National Water Trail by the U.S. Department of the Interior places the Teche in an elite group of rivers across the nation and will increase recreational tourism for the 15 communities and four parishes the 135-mile river runs through.