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Monday, July 6, 2009
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Tate Tullier was 12 years old when he borrowed his mother Ida Tullier’s camera and began to take portraits of his younger cousin and friends. The St. Amant native said he was inspired by the ones he saw in magazines and desired to emulate them. So began what has evolved into a lucrative career as a professional photographer.
A mass of concrete and floodgates near the head of the Atchafalaya River acts as a faucet of sorts to control how much water flows out of the Mississippi River into the vast Atchafalaya Basin swamp. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has kept a careful hand on that faucet for fear the larger Mississippi River might change course down the Atchafalaya.
GARYVILLE – Marathon Oil Corp. may be based in Ohio, with a fuel distribution network fixated on the Midwest, but its refining roots run deep in Louisiana soil.
A significant number of high school students will pursue Louisiana’s new curriculum designed to reduce dropouts, parish school superintendents predict.
If East Baton Rouge Parish Attorney Mary Roper feels as if she has a target on her back, there’s a good reason. She does.
Top executives of Baton Rouge area nonprofit organizations often are paid six-figure salaries. In other parts of the country, those salaries have been questioned for being too high and out of proportion with the amount the organization spends to fulfill its mission — whether that be running an animal shelter or a nonprofit hospital.
Folks in Pointe Coupee Parish take to the water to celebrate Independence Day. News 2's Rob Krieger joins them to find out what this day means to them.
CENTRAL — School bullies may stand head and shoulders above their victims, but newer and more menacing threats are those who use text-messaging and e-mail to harass other students, said Central school system officials.
Connecting the dots of recent events creates an unsettling picture of Louisiana’s future.
Thousands gathered on the lawn and steps of the State Capitol Saturday to have their voices heard.
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