and used columns narrower than usual. Thai officials testing twisted metal from the ruins said they found substandard steel bars — made by a Thai factory with Chinese owners that the authorities ...

A Lake Charles mother has been charged with child desertion after she allegedly left her four children — all under the age of 6 — alone in an apartment that was covered in feces. Calcasieu ...

She married Julius T. Palumbo in 1951, they settled down in Sulphur, La. and proceeded to have five children, eight grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren. She remained a protector of home and ...