After over five years of planning, a project intended protect up to six parishes from flooding is scheduled to start its first phase of construction late by September 2019.
Officials have released a computer enhanced facial approximation of an unidentified man whose remains were found during May in Morgan City.
Work has finished on most of the phases of the Morgan City Levee Improvements Project, and construction is getting closer to starting on one of the project’s final phases.
Also during Tuesday's swearing-in ceremony of newly-elected Sheriff Blaise Smith, 16th Judicial District Court Judge Anthony Thibodaux also administered oaths to the sheriff's department staff.
A 21-year-old Patterson man has been charged with murder in the Nov. 21 shooting death of Eric Howard Jr., 20, in Morgan City, a Morgan City police news release said.
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