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A judge in St. Bernard Parish has ruled in favor of former Murphy Oil Corp. employees who blame their hearing loss on decades of working for the company's Meraux plant. Wayne Mumphrey, a Slidell-based attorney for the plaintiffs, said the judgment, made official Tuesday, applies to five former workers. Renee Melancon, an attorney with Dallas-based law firm Baron & Budd, said the suit includes 40 workers. The court has yet to rule on the claims of the other 35, said Melancon, whose firm represented the plaintiffs.
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Each night, the majority of our group slept on cots between the pews of the historic St. Augustine's Parish, the oldest Black Catholic Church in the U.S. We arrived just days before the official closing of the parish by the Archdiocese of New Orleans (citing lack of funding) and joined the parishioners in their fight to keep their parish and its many ministries, including a food pantry and clothing drive, open. Father Jerome LeDoux, the African-American priest who has presided at St. Augustine's for the past 15 years, will be replaced by Rev. Michael Jacques, a white pastor from the neighboring St. Peter Claver Parish, whose church, unlike St. Augustine's, was completely devastated by the hurricane. After a three-week occupation of the church by parishioners and supporters, the Archdioc...
...Bernard's. Lynn Dean, a white St. Bernard Parish resident ...
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NEW YORK, April 18, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Nickelodeon will go green for Earth Day when the network encourages kids to take positive actions for the environment via The Big Help pro-social campaign and airs special episodes of its popular live-action and animated shows, on April 22. The Big Help Earth Day block, airing in primetime, will be hosted by Victorious stars Victoria Justice, Daniella Monet and Leon Thomas on location in Louisiana, where they participated in the network's "The Big Help Earth Day in the Gulf" restoration project to refurbish the St. Bernard Parish wetlands outside of New Orleans. The cast will highlight the work and activities from the restoration project throughout the hour-long block that features a new episode of Victorious, guest-starring Ke$ha, airing at 8 p....
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St. Bernard Parish is a sea of slabs as far as the eye can see. Simone Bruni, president of the The Demo Diva, points to a three- headed monster -- Hurricane Katrina, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and parish officials -- as the source of this topographical oddity.
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One Catholic church in Buffalo's Kaisertown neighborhood will be closed and another turned into a part-time worship site under a proposal by the Catholic Diocese of Buffalo. The proposal calls for merging St. Bernard, St. Casimir and Our Lady of Czestochowa into a single parish. St. Bernard, at South Ogden and Clinton streets near the Cheektowaga border, will be closed. St. Casimir, a few blocks away at Casimir and Cable streets, will become an oratory, available for special occasions such as baptisms, weddings and funerals.
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Authorities in St. Bernard Parish report a large fish kill was found Sunday afternoon at the mouth of the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet. Thousands of dead fish were found floating on top of the water, collected in boom and washed up on the shoreline. By our estimates there were thousands, and I'm talking about 5,000 to 15,000 dead fish," St. Bernard Parish President Craig Taffaro said this morning.
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Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal today issued a state of emergency today as crews continued to try to contain a massive oil spill threatening the state's fragile coast. St. Bernard Parish President Craig Taffaro also issued a state of emergency today.
