Nearly five years after a jury ruled in favor of a local investor group that has been fighting the Rev. Jimmy Swaggart’s Family Worship Center Church since 2006 over a 60-acre parcel it is trying to acquire, the long-running case is headed back to 19th Judicial District Court for a new trial.
Questions abound over whether the LSU Board of Supervisors is looking out for the university or the interests of Jim Bernhard on a proposed energy deal.
U.S. Reps. Garret Graves, R-Baton Rouge, and Cedric Richmond, D-New Orleans, are the latest members of the Louisiana congressional delegation to push for efforts to help victims of the Stanford Group Ponzi scheme recoup some of the more than $7 billion they lost more than a decade ago.
Leaders in West Baton Rouge Parish say the planned development of an Amazon sorting facility in Port Allen will be a boon for the local economy and could bring as many as 300 jobs to the area.