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Police warn of DWI crackdown! Drivers should be careful this holiday season, as Louisiana police will be out in full force, cracking down on DUI & DWI violations. The last thing that you or your family wants to deal with

House Bill 445 by Rep. Damon Baldone, D-Houma, went into effect at midnight, doubling from six months to a year the length of time drivers can lose their license for refusing a first-time test. Subsequent refusals within five

Everyone at Bloom Legal Network wishes all the visitors and locals a happy and safe Festival weekend.- Seth Bloom

Arrested or given a citation in New Orleans over the holidays? During the New Year’s and Sugar Bowl seasons many partiers found themselves in Orleans Parish Prison with court dates in Orleans Parish Municipal or Orleans...

Once again Louisiana, Texas and the Gulf south have experienced another rough Hurricane season. At this time many commercial property owners as well as personal home owners are beginning to have trouble with their insurance...

According to the Times Picayune this morning and the St. Charles Parish Sheriff’s Office an impaired drivers checkpoint will be conducted at an undisclosed location between 6 tonight until 6 Friday morning. This should

TMZ reports that former child star Zachary Ty Bryan, who played Brad Taylor on “Home Improvement” is filing suit against Choice Hotels over an incident where Bryan was tased by hotel security in April. Zachary claims he...

Last week Ray Boudreaux Jr., 23, a former Tulane football player was found guilty for attempted manslaughter and is subject to 60 years in prison. In September 2007, According to the Times Picayune, Bourdeaux was caught on...

The Times Picaynue is reporting about the dissatisfaction of some folk who are plaintiffs in the case against ExxonMobil (and other big oil companies) for contaminating land near the Harvey Canal … and it is just one...

For most folk, when you think about drunk driving the worst case scenario is seeing those flashing red lights behind you, and knowing that you’re about to be taken down to jail with your license being at risk, your...

The news stories are filled with the mystery surrounding nurse Mindy Jordan’s cruise vacation over Mother’s Day weekend:  she’s missing, and it’s being reported that she fell into the ocean while...

Today’s Times-Picayune has a nice, big story about Mandeville Mayor Eddie Price driving his SUV (a Ford Expedition owned by the city, by the way) into a toll booth barrier a little before midnight on April 22nd...

Janice Gould died on the scene of a car crash yesterday, after her husband had some kind of medical event that precipitated his driving their SUV into an oncoming lane of IH12 where Janice’s side was hit by an oncoming

Since Katrina, there hasn’t been access to crime information for locals like folk in other parts of the country get all the time.  For example, over in San Antonio, anyone interested in the number of crimes in their...

This week, a bill was passed in the Louisiana House of Representatives that bans talking on handheld cellphones (and text messaging) when you’re driving.  This isn’t law yet — it still has to meet with...

The Food & Drug Administration is supposed to approve drugs as being safe for human consumption before they can be sold in the U.S. Marketplace.  This isn’t an ironclad guarantee these days — as demonstrated

In Louisiana, you only get so much time to file your lawsuit.  If you miss this deadline, then it doesn’t matter how valid your claim is – or how horrible the evildoer defendant is, or how serious the injuries...

Unfortunately, there are so many product recalls that it’s impossible to know whether or not everything you own – the car you drive, the toys the kids play with, the kitchen appliances you use, the food you eat...