Texas / South Central News

After fighting more than 100 arson fires last year alone, Pine Bluff’s fire department hopes ideas from a new committee... Read More

Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe has declared 26 counties disaster areas due to the damage from this week’s heavy rains and... Read More

A bid by two units of Entergy Corp. to finance their hurricane-damage repair costs through a quasi-government agency were again... Read More

Torrential rains this week that led to widespread flooding damaged hundreds of homes and caused at least $2 million in... Read More

U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval in the first quarter of 2008 dismissed a lawsuit against the U.S. Corps of Engineers... Read More

Work crews are picking over hundreds of miles of coastal waters to clear old trees, sunken boats and other debris... Read More

New Orleans and nearby St. Bernard Parish, areas that suffered huge population losses after Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005, are... Read More

In Fairfield Insurance Co. v. Stephens Martin Paving, LP, the Texas Supreme Court addressed, for the first time, whether punitive... Read More

Former Louisiana Senate president Michael O’Keefe, serving 19.5 years for stealing from a failed medical malpractice insurance company, said he... Read More

State and federal officials touted changes to the process for Louisiana communities to appeal decisions by the Federal Emergency Management... Read More